My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

My father was in the First World War.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

KLA has been fighting to achieve what we have achieved today. KLA hasn't won the war only. Democratic world has won this war.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.