부산대학교 도서관

The article presents the author's reflections on his life over the last fifty years. Compared to our parents generation, my generation has been a lucky one. Our parents lived through really hard times: two World Wars, the big inflation of 1922/23 that wiped out any savings, the Great Depression, the Nazi rule with its crimes, and for many, long years spent as prisoners of war. True, we also lived during the war, but we were children, and afterwards things gradually became better, and soon much better. After the turmoil of the last months of the war, I found myself in northern Germany. I finished high school, enrolled in the university as a medical student, and, by a stroke of luck, entered the department of biochemistry, where I spent most of my time during the next two years.