So, the New York Times has a new alert thingie which I just set up; you can pick several phrases or words, and they'll email you when there's an article containing or related to those words.
One of the phrases I picked was "East Prussia," and voila- they sent me a link to Marion Gräfin Dönhoff's obituary. I hadn't heard that she'd died- but then, she's not a very famous figure in the States, and I haven't been reading the obits lately.
Marion Countess Dönhoff, a Leading Journalist Who Opposed Hitler
by Wolfgang Saxon
here's part of it:

"Marion Countess Dönhoff, an architect of German postwar journalism, over which she still towered as joint publisher of the liberal weekly Die Zeit, died yesterday. She was 92 and lived in Hamburg, where the highly influential intellectual newspaper is published.
She was born into Prussian nobility and was one of the last prominent survivors of the German resistance to Hitler, whose executioners decimated the circle of her friends.
Dr. Dönhoff — the countess, as she was known in and out of the office — was a best-selling author whose essays and commentary were respected well beyond Germany, where she made her mark after Nazism collapsed in defeat in 1945.
In 1946, she joined the political staff of the fledgling Die Zeit, newly licensed by the British occupation authority. Its editors had noted her reports on the Nuremberg trials of Hitler's helpmates and her attempts to show the Allies that there had, in fact, been a German resistance to the Nazi dictator.
In 1955, she was promoted to head the political department of the weekly, which is noted as much for its coverage of culture and the economy as for its scrutiny of government. She also became an assistant editor in chief.
She was named editor in chief in 1968, then a rare distinction for a woman in journalism, particularly in West Germany. Four years later, she rose to publisher, a position she shared with Helmut Schmidt, the former chancellor, among others."
It goes on:
"Yet she raised an early voice for Germany's acceptance of its truncated eastern borders when most Germans had yet to reconcile themselves to them. Her stand was especially remarkable in light of her personal history."
Indeed, people like my own grandparents would not have agreed with her on that, especially not as early as she was talking about it. Too many people believed Adenauer when he promised they'd get their "homeland" back, and they never, ever let that go.