when it came to Crystal Nacht, my father was rounded up, together with other Jewish men. And he was incarcerated for… a week or so. During which time I remember my mother ageing by about ten years. I mean she was a young-looking woman, but…but that was a terrible time. He got out eventually, because at that time, the Viennese or the Nazis, still respected the war record, right? And when he came out, he told us, perhaps a little bragging, that when a young Nazi tried to speak to him, right? He told him to stand “Hab Acht”, which means to “Stand to attention! You’re speaking to an officer!”, right? So I mean he, he- and I must admit that him having told us this, all during the war, when we in England really weren’t told anything of what was going on, right? All during the war, I felt quite confident that he would be alright some… that somehow or other, on the strength of his war-time record and his general ability to handle things. But of course I was wrong.
