a final chapter, “war time,” added after 1945 to maintain continuity of the series after volume 4 was dropped, was a politically correct abridgement of the original version of volume 4, "nesthäkchen and the world war". the further course of the first world war is reduced to, "however, the terrible war had ended a short time later." anne marie's girlfriend vera, who appears in volume 4, is introduced in the new chapter with a few words. vera's oppressive history, a chilling example of relational aggression that is left out, is not only one of the most important and most instructive episodes in anne marie's life, but also one of ury's major literary achievements (see "nesthäkchen and the world war"). by 1996 the publisher had dispensed with the new chapter "war time," and the story ends, as it did in 1921, with annemarie's return to her home in berlin.