While Lindgren initially feared Stalin and a Russian invasion much more than Hitler, her image of Germany changed more and more to the worse.
She got angry with the Germans, who managed to get the rest of humanity up against themselves every twenty years causing two world wars.
[3] From 1 September 1939 to 31 December 1945, Astrid Lindgren wrote a diary in which she told her view of the war, but also collected newspaper articles and letters about what was happening.
During that time Lindgren's marriage was in a crisis, her husband was hardly at home, fell in love with another woman and became increasingly addicted to alcohol, but this was hardly mentioned in the diaries.
[12] According to Stefanie Panzenböck from Falter, Lindgren created a valuable piece of contemporary history that shows a perspective of the Second World War that is unusual for Central Europe.
[13] Lothar Schröder from Rheinische Post believes that diaries are rarely as poignant as this one - with all of the writer's initial ingenuity and her growing desire to understand a little more of this disrupted world.
[14] Kurt Tutschek from Piqd states that Astrid Lindgren records everyday things and describes a Swedish family in times of war.
The entries that depict the horrors of the war always include hopeful, happy moments, like when she wrote about Pippi Longstocking.