Together with her colleagues, including Madicken, Astrid worked by secretly reading letters to and from countries abroad, as well as military post. In the summer of 1940 Astrid was once again contacted by Harry Söderman and offered a top-secret job at the secret services’ department for letter censorship, what Astrid came to refer to as ‘the dirty job’. In total seventeen diaries were filled before peace arrived in May 1945.
Yesterday afternoon Elsa Gullander and I sat in ‘Vasaparken’ and whilst the children ran around playing we gave that Hitler a piece of our minds from our sheltered position and we agreed that there probably wouldn’t be a war - and then today!” Her war diaries begin: “O, today the war began. Astrid Lindgren decided to document the war and started cutting out articles as well as beginning her ‘war diaries’ that commented on both her day-to-day life and the events of the war.
In September 1939 The Second World War broke out.
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