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Heiskell:

[interrupts] No, no--wait a minute--No, no, I'm sorry, I've got the chronology wrong. I left Lausanne in 1928 and I spent three years in Lausanne, so I left Germany in 1924 or 1925. Then I went to Lausanne. There I finally did go to school.

Q:

But before we get to that, so when you left Germany you were ten?

Heiskell:

I was nine.

Q:

Other than hearing about these crazy people, do you remember anything else, impressions of what was going on politically, or discussions in your house, or at the hotel?

Heiskell:

At the hotel. No, these are the impressions that somehow stuck with me.

Q:

Did you see you father in all those years?

Heiskell:

Never.

Q:

When's the last time you saw your father?

Heiskell:

The last time I saw my father was probably in Capri in 1920 when we went back--but fleetingly. I never saw him again until the 1950s, sometime in the 1950s in Paris--and then I saw him only a few times until his death. But they just separated completely. It





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