Part 81: A Sad Goodbye In order to cope with all the tasks, I had no choice but to skip a music rehearsal every now and then in order to prepare for the exams with my study group.
Part 80: Winter Swims And Summer Jobs At one of these morning exercises, I made a strange observation while changing in an adjoining room. Two lab assistants were handling mice.
Part 79: Harvest Forges A Student Bond Finally, we drove a huge herd of young cattle from the pasture to the large cattle barn, where the animals had to be chained. The calves and heifers, most of which already had strong horns, had been grazing from spring to fall and were therefore quite feral.
Part 78: Potato Power! But until then, there was still a lot to settle and think about. Marga would be alone with the boy for the whole week, and her work had to go on as well.
Part 77: Pressure To Conform The name probably came from the early days of steam navigation, when sweating men with their upper bodies exposed incessantly shoveled coal into the fire vents of the ship’s boilers.
Part 76: A Family Torn Apart When the two brothers met, two opinions clashed that could not have been more different. During the war, my parents had helped prisoners of war and foreign workers to survive at the risk of their lives and had also helped German soldiers to desert.
Part 75: Long Shadows Of War The postwar admonition ‘Never again should a German pick up a rifle’ had long been smoke and mirrors. The danger was enormous that a mistake or a false alarm could turn all of Europe into an atomic desert in minutes.
Part 74: Balancing Responsibility With Musical Dreams With a completely furnished new apartment, a brand-new Trabant and a wife who had the household, child, and work under control, it was not difficult to be a caring husband.
Part 73: The Joys And Challenges Of Starting A Family In the summer of 1959, Marga and I went on our usual camping vacation, this time to the Schwielowsee near Potsdam.
Part 72: Lightness Came With Sputnik In the middle of this labor-intensive period, a steady beep sounded from space in October 1957 that made humanity sit up and take notice. Without prior notice, the Russians had launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit.
