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ibidem Press, Stuttgart

Table of Contents

Dedicated to my father,

but also to

my mother Hildegard

and to

my father's late love Zel

and her son Sheldon (Alasom [almost like a son of mine] as my father called him)

and to

our own crew (Marc, Eric, Tanya and Kim), who are doing him so proud today

Timeline

1903	parents' wedding date (Gustav Meyer marries Dora Salomon) Schlgerstrae address
1905	date of birth (Jan 24)
1909/age 6	birth and death of first little brother
1911/ age 8	move to Bdeckerstrae birth of little brother Karl-Heinz

WORLD WAR I
1914/age 9
1915/age 10
1916/age 11	death of Karl-Heinz
1917/age 12
1918/age 13	German Empire loses World War I (Armistice in Nov.)
revolutionary uprisingEmperor overthrown
Weimar Republic established
move to Waldstrae
1919	Treaty of Versailles imposes peace terms Hitler joins German Worker's Party
1920/age 15
1922/age 17 (mid-year)	Apprenticeship in Hannover Prices increase 100-fold
1923 (July to Nov)	Prices increase btw. a million and a billion times their previous level
(Nov)	Inflation brought to an abrupt end by new head of German central bank, Hjalmar Schacht. A catastrophe for those who had borrowed heavily on assumption prices would continue to rise.
Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch attempt
(Dec)	Hitler freed from Landsburg Prison
Nazi Party wins 24 seats in the Reichstag
1924/age 19	Two-year stint in London
1925/age 20 (June)	Schutzstaffel (SS) is formed
1927	Paris/Breslau
(July)	Nazi Party holds its first Nuremberg Rally
1928/age 23	Berlin/Hannover
(May)	Nazi Party wins fewer (14) seats in the Reichstag
1929 (Dec)	Nazi Party membership of 178,000
1930/age 25 (Jan)	William Frick first Nazi minister in State government
(Sept)	Nazi Party wins 107 seats in the Reichstag
(Dec)	Unemployment in Germany reaches nearly 4 million
1932 (March)	Paul von Hindenburg defeats Hitler in presidential elections
(April)	Sturmabteilung (SA) is banned In Prussia the Nazi Party becomes largest single party in the State parliament
(June)	von Papen (Chancellor under Hindenburg) lifts the ban on the Sturmabteilung
(July)	Nazi Party wins 230 seats in the Reichstag
(Aug)	Hitler refuses to serve under von Papen as vice-chancellor of Germany
(Nov)	von Papen resigns as Chancellor of Germany

END OF THE STILL GOOD TIMES
1933/age 28 (Jan)	Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
(March)	Nazi Party fails to win an overall majority in the Reichstag First Nazi concentration camp formed at Dachau Reichstag passes Enabling Bill (henceforth, Hitler and his Cabinet could enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag)
(June)	Hitler increases the number of Nazis in his government
(Oct)	marriage to Hildegard Kehlhofer
1934 (March)	Hitler increases size of German Army
(Aug)	Paul von Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes president as well as chancellor
1935	Nuremburg Laws deprive Jews of German citizenship
1936 (March)	Germany enters the Rhineland
(Aug)	Hitler introduces a compulsory 2-year period of military conscription
(Nov)	Hitler and Mussolini form military alliance Germany and Japan sign an anti-Comintern pact
1937/age 32 (Feb)	France extends Maginot Line along border with Germany
(April)	Guernica is bombed by the Luftwaffe
(Aug)	Emigrates to the USA (thanks to sponsorship set up by Gustav)

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1936/37	Family business expropriated
1938 (Nov 9)	Crystal Night
1940 (Feb 2)	Death of his mother, Dora (Salomon) Meyer
1941 (Dec 15)	Death of his father, Gustav Meyer
1968 (Feb 14)	Date of his own death

2001	Family bank in Hannover notifies me that no trace exists of the family account!

Prologue

The title of this bookif I ever finish itwill probably be GUSTAV SAID. Not that Gustav, my father, succeeded in making me live in his image or by all of his rules. Nor that he managed to make me benefit from all of his experiences, or kept me from making my own mistakes. Nobut he is the most outstanding figure in my life. He is what shows through more strongly than anything else in how I look at life and how I live it.

Gustav in Venice

Gustav was the most extraordinary man I ever knew and, to me, the greatest father any boy ever had. I love him dearly even now (early 1960s), so many years after his death and at an age he himself had (in his sixties) when I knew him best.

Some men are prone to quoting the Bible. Not that they necessarily live their lives in the image of this great book of ethics, but they seem to derive strength and life wisdom from it. Somehow, it seems to allow them to cope with life that much more easily, simply by quoting passages that serve to highlight a situation, make a point, or express their feelings far better than could any words of their own.

A curve in the road, marked clearly by a sign warning BEWARE OF THE DANGEROUS CURVE AHEAD! is no longer dangerous, is what Gustav so often said. It's the curve in the road that has

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