World War I and Revolution
Dehn trained to become a Red Cross nurse during World War I and nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital.
She was with the imperial family during the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and helped nurse the imperial children and the Tsarina's friend, Anna Vyrubova, who was also Dehn's distant cousin, through an outbreak of measles. She witnessed the Tsar's abdication and the family's imprisonment by the new provisional government. Dehn left the palace and persuaded the government to place her under house arrest in her own home because her son Titi was dangerously ill.
Dehn wrote in her book that she blamed the Revolution on Jewish revolutionaries.
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