So, that's the kind of tradition into which I was born and I was brought over into this country when I was six months old. Newark Museum, by the way, when they had a large show a couple of years ago, called, "All That Glitters Is Gold," "All That's Gold Glitters," or whatever and was a show about the jewelry industry in Newark, which was primarily a lot of. He was trained to be a jeweler and his name and firm are mentioned in the catalogue of the. He hated it and that's one of the reasons why he left, because there was that Prussian iconography going on for a while, but he was a very fine man. He never thought that this would be happening and was very, very upset, naturally, and I say this mainly, too, because, always, there's a stereotype about Germans, we're all so very militaristic, but I can assure you, it certainly was not indicative of my family, because my father was extremely anti-Kaiser, anti-Army, anti-military. That's one of the reasons he left Europe, because of all that, and he thought he was going to come to a new life in this country. It was 1944 and I was 1-A and weighed 140 pounds and I thought I was too skinny to go in, but I wasn't and he couldn't believe it and he said, you know, he had tears in his eyes when he put me on the bus, and he said, "You know, I never thought I would live to see a son of mine going to war.". it's funny how fate will work, because, years later, when I was drafted into the US service, I'll never forget the day he put me on the bus in Irvington, New Jersey. Well, I find it very ironic, in that my father, at seventeen, was in the trenches in World War I and the reason I mention that is because. Can you tell me a little bit about your father?ĬB. To begin, I would like to ask you a few questions about your parents and your childhood in Germany. SI: Professor Burger, thank you very much for being with us today.Ĭarl Burger: I'm very honored and I appreciate what you're doing. Shaun Illingworth: This begins an interview with Professor Carl Burger on November 22, 2002, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with Shaun Illingworth and.
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