I had several telephone calls from home. “Do come home, everything is quiet here, and there is no reason why you should stay in Prague, because probably the war will break out soon.” They knew Hitler was coming. So I don’t know, I had an instinct. I think that is something that is quite- I still cannot explain it. I knew that I cannot go to East, I had to go to West.
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