At that time East and West Germany had not yet been reunited, and the West Germans were extremely anti-communist. My father had led 60 to 70 relatives in escaping, the youngest of them his granddaughter of less than a year old. They all became news figures which the German media scrambled to interview, and my father was regarded as an anti-communist hero.
當年東、西德尚未統一，西德人極為反共，家父帶領了六、七十位親族逃亡，最年幼者是尚未滿周歲的孫女，遂成為德國競相採訪的新聞人物，把家父看成反共英雄。