in a town called waldorf, which is very close heidelberg in germany. >> tell me about your parents and your family. >> well, i grew up in the post world war i era. of course those were really difficult times. and my parents were struggling to get along during this economic chaos that existed during those times. you may remember there was this very serious inflation. ludicrous in a sense, such as has never been seen before or sens sense. i believe that made it very difficult to carry on in anything at all. my father had a business made extremely difficult because of the economic conditions that existed after world war i. he was a broker for hops and tobacco and grain that he would buy from the farmers that lived in the town we lived in. and he -- and my mother helped him all she could. and of course they, along with so many others, were just struggling to exist in those days. but still you might say i grew up in a middleclass family. of course after going to elementary school in this town, it was expected that i would go to high school in heidelberg. really it was then perhaps on a some