i was born on july 2nd 1920, in a town called waldorf which is very close to hidenberg, in germany. >> tell me about your parents and your family. >> well i glue up in the post world war i era, and of course, those were really difficult times, and my parents were struggling to get along during the economic chaos that existed during those times. you may remember there was this very serious inflation i mean, ludicrous in a sense such as has never been seen before or since, i believe. and that made it very difficult to carry on anything at all. my father had had a business that was 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 in the the town that we lived in. >> 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. i -- but still you mig say that i grew up in a middle class family, and, of course after going to elementary school in this town kpfs expected that i would go to high school

i was born on july 2nd 1920, in a town called waldorf which is very close to hidenberg, in germany. >> tell me about your parents and your family. >> well i glue up in the post world war i era, and of course, those were really difficult times, and my parents were struggling to get along during the economic chaos that existed during those times. you may remember there was this very serious inflation i mean,