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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

We left Germany when I was 11.

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.