Just like me in the Alps, these children in the city in the immediate postwar years had the most wonderful childhood imaginable. Even Dieter Dengler, who I later made a film about—two films, a documentary and a drama, Little Dieter Needs to Fly in 1997 and Rescue Dawn in 2006—who had grown up in some seclusion in Wildberg in the Black Forest, said the same thing, though their poverty had been even worse than ours.
