Peter Oehme was born in Leipzig . During the war years Leipzig was subject to heavy air-raids and he was evacuated , with his mother , to a village in Saxony . US troops invaded and then withdrew from the area in the summer of 1945 , reflecting an agreement already concluded between the leaders of the victorious powers , which left the entire region administered as the Soviet occupation zone ( relaunched in October 1949 as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic ) . After the war ended the family were reunited in Leipzig , but while he was still at school they relocated to what came to be known as East Berlin . His memoires recall that his parents were enthusiastic supporters of the new political structure in East Germany , although Oehme himself displayed outbursts of low-level rebelliousness , notably in the aftermath of the Hungarian uprising , when he was one of a group of medical student representatives demanding the abolition of compulsory lessons in the Russian language and Marxist-Leninist basic studies
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Peter Oehme