Dorothy Anker Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Dorothy Anker
A. No, he went back then to a German tin-lversity; that was the
University of Frankfurt. It was the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
And there he spent the last two years until his graduation from the
university as a Diplom Kaufmann which is something similar to a R.A.
Hecnusa you don't have really a degree. I mean . , .
Q.
The German university doesn't have a bachelor's degree as we do.
A. No, no.
Q. And I don't think it has a master's. You work for your doctorate.
A. Ja. Now rhis W R ~ not the doctorate. The doctorate he would have ro
make later. He made only the Diplorn Kaufmann which would be maybe more
like a bachelor degree hut in commerce.
Q. And this was hls field in commerce.
A. In the business field, ja.
Q. 1 see. How old was Hans when you met him?
A. He must have been twenty-five.
Q. And you were?
A. And I was nineteen,
(2. Nineteen. You were very young. Then Vera you married soon after
you met?
A. No, but we thought already, because I went back co Munich.
Q. You went back ro your job?
A. Ja, ro my job and Bans and I promised, among ourselves, we got
engaged already on New year's Eve from 1932 to 1933. And we got married
the following year.
Q. You were married in 1933. Now when you went back home you said for
Christmas vacation, was thar still the home that you described me where
you h&l . . .
A. Ja, ja.
Q. So really you lived all your young life in that house, didn't you
except for the short time down in the Black Forest?
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