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From Visiting Scholar To Immigrant: A Memoir, Gustav T. Durrer
From Visiting Scholar To Immigrant: A Memoir, Gustav T. Durrer
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In younger years, with youthful optimism, one tends to project the future on a fairly straight line. Life usually alters that course. Circumstances change, and we change with them. Events in and around us shape our destiny. Roadblocks and crossroads force us to choose an unplanned route. 1939-45 was such a time when many lives were drastically changed, due to the dramatic developments in Europe and the Far East. These events were to alter the course of my life also.