My father was taken from prison and transported straight to central Berlin, where he was told to set up the office for Berlin’s energy supply, a task that had to be done literally from nothing. There was no power, no transport, no organised life of any kind for a period.
然而，一开始却是一片混乱。纳粹离开了，占领军队还没有建立起任何行政政府。我们都去抢劫本地商店；我至今还保留着那时十六岁的我从一个书店拿来的薄薄的浪漫主义诗歌册子。占领军队到处闹事，食物出现匮乏。我父亲被从监狱中直接转到了柏林中心地区，被告知要在那里建造起一个柏林能源供应办公室，事实上这是一个需要从零做起的任务。那段时间没有电力，没有交通，生活毫无秩序。