On September 1, 1939 Lindgren's diary started with the words „Oh! War broke out today. Nobody could believe it.“ Then she documented the events of the war with the help of newspaper articles and letters. In doing so, she did not only mention the threat posed by Hitler, but also that of Stalin, when the latter was attacking Finland, for example. 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. At the same time, Lindgren also showed compassion for the Germans when the bombs were dropped on Berlin.