The Twentieth Century was by far the most murderous period in human history. Some hundred million people perished during wars, hunger and revolutions. Erik Meyer experienced half of the century of death and destruction. Born in 1940, at the outset of WWII in Hamburg, Germany, the awful war years are just a distant memory. Growing up in an environment, where the parents had lost everything they ever owned and living for almost a decade with 5 people in two small rooms, the main daily task was finding enough food to eat and fuel to heat and cook. Even the most basic items of a civilized world,...