[indiscernible] betterknownar the. Own of why more weimar interviewer what was your childhood like . Wasgruen my childhood very, very pleasant. My father was the principal of a school. My mother my father had a devoted marriage. I had one brother older than i. In that village. Went to Primary School there. And did all the things that ,mall children, little boys do including using a roller skate on a steep hill and scaring my mother out of her skull with my derringdo. [laughter] . Nterviewer was it mountainous rollerskating on a steep hill . No, this was a hill in the village. On top of the hill there was a church. The countryside was hilly, not mountainous. But a very beautiful region where my family and i did a good deal of hiking on weekends. It was a very, very pleasant countryside. At that time. Interviewer how did you happen to wind up in the United States and the Manhattan Project . In the Manhattan Project . Mr. Gruen well, you ask a very interesting question. Answer is that i w
This hour 20 minutes of oral history is from the voices of the Manhattan Project, created by the Heritage Foundation and los alamos historical society. Mr. Gruen i was born on november 21, 1922 in waldorf, germany. Interviewer where is that . Mr. Gruen waldorf is a small village near the town of [indiscernible] which is near the betterknown weimar. Town of weimar. That is just south. Interviewer what was your childhood like . Mr. Gruen my childhood was very, very pleasant. My father was the principal of a school. My mother and my father had a devoted marriage. I had one brother older than i. And i grew up in that village. Went to Primary School there. And and did all the things that small children, little boys do, including using a roller skate on a steep hill and scaring my mother out of her skull with my derringdo. [laughter] interviewer was it mountainous . Rollerskating on a steep hill . Mr. Gruen no, this was a hill in the village. On top of the hill there was a church. The countr