Abstract
This text describes the experiences of Marianne Angermann-Bielschowsky who during the Spanish Civil War lived in Madrid, where she worked together with her husband, the physician Franz Bielschowsky, in a military hospital. Shortly before the Nationalists marched into Madrid at the end of that conflict the couple fled via France and Belgium to Great Britain. The text consists mainly of journal entries by Marianne's mother, Charlotte Angermann, who lived in Dresden. Charlotte records day to day life in Nazi Germany as the Second World War approached.