Cambridge

"The freedom of the American people was conditional—it required obeying the law, and the law was quite clear, with little ambiguity, and enforcement was quite strict. For someone like me, a survivor of war who had come through a chaotic era, the rule of law in the United States in 1949 seemed like another world. Of course, there was often crime news in the newspapers, but in the lives of most of the people in the city of Cambridge where I lived, it seemed that no shadow of crime intruded. “No need to bolt the door at night, and nothing left lying on the road would be picked up” truly was a depiction of life at that time."

"I can only advise every young person: Learn languages! This is also why I like to think back to my student days, which began in Cambridge and Bristol and later took me to Paris and Montpellier. Academic learning, and of course a joyful student life, are valuable factors that I also enjoyed during my semesters in Munich, Tübingen, Heidelberg and Mannheim. But the semesters abroad in England and France also made possible the so important immersion in the native languages. It is pleasing that today's students almost obligatorily incorporate semesters abroad into their academic training. In my day and even decades later, this was still not a matter of course."