I was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930. My father, a mathematician and a banker, taught me to read and write before the age of 5. I discovered my love for writing by the time I was 10 years old and wrote vacation reports and several articles for the German school periodical “Hilf Mit.”
When I was 10, I entered the “Jungvolk,” a subdivision of the Hitler Youth, which was mandatory in the Berlin school system. I then entered the Hitler Youth at the age of 14, also mandatory, and continued writing for the Hitler Youth periodicals “D more...
