I think I am a better person for it, for the experience of having all this as a background. I don’t consider myself German, I am not German. I would rather be a displaced person. When I think, if I think about, my father was in the First World War in the German army. What did he get? And that he was proud of me having been in the army! That he should witness … there should never be any more wars. My husband was a conscientious objector.
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