I still can’t put up with heat and am glad that there’s a stiff breeze today, and yet the sun still shines.
Yours, Anne
Monday, 5 June, 1944
Dear Kitty, Fresh ‘Secret Annexe’ troubles, a quarrel between Dussel and the Franks over something very trivial: the sharing of butter. Dussel’s capitulation. Mrs. van Daan and the latter very thick, flirtations, kisses and friendly little laughs. Dussel is beginning to long for women.
The Fifth Army has taken Rome. The city has been spared devastation by both armies and air forces.
Very few vegetables and potatoes. Bad weather. Heavy bombardments of the French coast and Pas de Calais continue.
Yours, Anne
Tuesday, 6 June, 1944
Dear Kitty, ‘This is D-day’ came the announcement over the English news and quite rightly, this is the day. The invasion has begun!
The English gave the news at 8 o’clock this morning: Calais, Boulogne, Le Havre, and Cherbourg, also the Pas de Calais (as usual), were heavily bombarded. Moreover, as a safety measure for all occupied territories, all people who live within a radius of thirty-five kilometres from the coast
