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These memoirs cover the life of the author from his youth in pre-World War II Vienna, his escape from the Germans, a coming-of-age period in Sacramento California to his return to Europe, first in the American army and later as an internationally known scientist. rapidly. Kristallnacht and repeated beatings by young Nazi hoodlums was the progression of events that led the boy to leave Vienna for Holland on what has become known as a Kindertransport. allowed the author and his immediate family to emigrate to the United States. tightly knit society concerned almost exclusively with its immediate environment. all authority, father, school, police. operator in the local railroad yards, he entered the US Army.