Word: kluncker
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...Heinz Kluncker, a young boy in Nazi Germany, the evils of that regime came through to him in the form of being forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations...
...loved jazz, but I could not listen because you were not allowed. If they caught you listening to a foreign radio station--there was no jazz in Germany--they would kill you. So if you wanted to listen, you had to listen with headphones," Kluncker says...
...Kluncker grew older, Nazi ideology came closer to home and, and he became an opponent of the government. Kluncker says he did not accept Nazi ideology and disliked the marching exercises required of all youth in the Third Reich...
...Heinz Kluncker, a West German labor leader and the first Jerry Wurf Fellow at the Kennedy School, told a hushed audience about his youth in Nazi Germany. With a heavy German accent, he said he never agreed with the Nazi ideology and came to bitterly hate it when his mother was tortured by the Gestapo...
Choosing the first alternative, Kluncker escaped to the United States and returned to Germany after World War II to become an official for the Social Democratic Party and eventually president of his labor union...