[3] Through his marriage to actress Daisy D'ora (Miss Germany 1931), he acquired a glamorous and publicity prone wife to whom diplomatic discretion did not always come naturally.

[9][10] The family moved to Offenstetten where Daisy and their two children lived during the World War II which resumed in September 1939,[9] although Schlitter's work kept him away from home for most of this time.

[13] The grand home at Offenstetten was commandeered for use as an officers' training academy[13] while the Schlitter family, according to one press report, inhabited a bomb shelter in the estate grounds.

By Christmas 1945, however, Daisy Schlitter had invoked the support of Bishop Michael Buchberger to have the Schloss converted into a refuge for some of the millions of the orphaned and refugee children arising from the war and ethnic cleansing in the confiscated territories to the east of the Oder-Neisse line.

In 1952 Oskar Schlitter resumed his diplomatic career, with a posting to Madrid where for a year he served as deputy to the West German ambassador, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria.

[14] During this period Prince Adalbert took a three-month leave of absence and Schlitter found himself, as Chargé d'affaires, working as West German ambassador to Madrid in all but title.

[16] In the wake of the confusion the West German foreign office sent Oskar Schlitter, who also had a knowledge of agriculture along with his pre-war experience as a commercial attaché.

Schlitter, accompanied by his distractingly glamorous wife, was nevertheless not the colleague his fellow West German diplomats in London had been expecting to welcome as their new chargé d'affaires.

Accompanied by his wife he greeted his guests, but then had to leave for a reception, being held to celebrate the European Coal and Steel Community,[14] at the British Foreign Office.

[17] It would normally have fallen to the next person in the embassy chain of command to deliver a short speech of welcome to the assembled guests, but for some reason Oskar Schlitter instead asked his wife, Daisy to attend to this formality.

[18] Reports of Daisy Schlitter's remarks were picked up in London by the Daily Sketch, an English tabloid newspaper, and from there gained wider press traction internationally.

[22] A helpful embassy spokesman was quoted as explaining that an enquiry had been set up concerning an indiscretion committed by a member of the chargé d'affaires's family.

British media interest rumbled on and the political establishment in London also appear to have remained resolutely unimpressed by the Schlitters' continued presence in their city.

It was left to a German publication, Der Spiegel, to spell out, for the benefit of readers unfamiliar with English press priorities, that it would indeed be a terrible blow for the Daily Sketch if pictures of "Frau Daisy" were to disappear from the front pages.

Ordered back to Bonn by Secretary of state Carstens, on 19 July 1963 Schlitter explained to the US embassy official, Coburn Kidd, that Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav leader, had not been entitled to expect new West German credit guarantees or discussion of global restitution issues dating back to the war in the context of trade negotiations.