peter schumann, welcome to democracy now!> thank you. >> talk about how you started this very unusual theater company. >> i first date in the united tates was a participation producing a general strike for peace. it is a big word for something that involves maybe 60, 80, or 100 people. >> you come from germany. you were born in what year? >> 34. ism was risingzi in germany. period. the shatterer >> talk about what life was like then and how you came to live in the united states. i was born in a small town. when the war ended, or came close to it, bombarded by the watch tankse had to approaching. everybody fled. fled to the baltic sea .here they had some friends we lived as refugees for a few years on the farm. five kids. we left having to make a new life. , grindinghe fields wheat, making bread been old- fashioned village in a communal bakery. everybody brought their loads on one day a week to the big of an to bake them. >> what was your family doing during the nazi period? my father was a teacher at the high school, my mothe