her life from another perspective, because she knew that she had cancer. Rachel MacKenzie wrote that Knef had her 56th operation, a mastectomy, in Salzburg on 10 August 1973. MacKenzie stated that from that cancer surgery, life had to be thought of in terms of pre-verdict and post-verdict. The book is divided in these two sections but they are not chronologically ordered because Knef wrote the two sections in a way that the reader is moved forward and backward in time and space. The Verdict describes in great detail the hospital scenes as well as the doctors and nurses in New York, Los Angeles, Zürich and Hamburg, where she was hospitalised. Personal life Knef was married three times and divorced twice. Her first marriage was in 1947 to Kurt Hirsch, a U.S. information officer. They divorced in 1952. The second time she married the actor and record producer David Anthony Palastanga, on 30 June 1962. Knef had a daughter with him, Christina Antonia. When Knef was 47, she wrote a letter for her five-year-old daughter. She wrote what she had learned of beauty, of her grandfather's legacy about anti-human beings, of unconditional love and truth. She also wrote that the only mission of humans in this world was to serve in one form or other because she had noticed that those who didn't serve ended up as slaves. When she died, she was still married to her third husband, Paul von Schell. Knef died at the age of 76 of a lung infection in Berlin, where she had moved after the German reunification. She smoked heavily for most of her life and suffered from emphysema. Selected filmography The Noltenius Brothers (1945) Frühlingsmelodie (1945) - Zwilling ohne Leberfleck Under the Bridges (1946) - Girl in Havelberg Murderers Among Us (1946) - Susanne Wallner Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1947) - Das Mädchen Kat Film Without a Title (1948) - Christine Fleming Journey to Happiness (1948) - Susanne Loevengaard The Sinner (1951) - Marina Miracles Still Happen (1951) - Anita Weidner Decision Before Dawn (1951) - Hilde Nights on the Road (1952) - Inge Hoffmann Diplomatic Courier (1952) - Janine Betki The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) - Countess Liz Night Without Sleep (1952) - Lisa Muller Alraune (1952) - Alraune Henriette (1952) - Rita Solar Illusion in a Minor Key (1952) - Lydia Bauer The Man Between (1953) - Bettina A Love Story