"it was all anti- German lies, he said."

PMB,
that must have been a extremely rare example of a German youngster from that time. I was in my early 20s in 1970 and we all (obviously not all) knew about it, even if it was not mentioned in history in school for being too recent (that has changed now).

This bit a news that has a factual basis but is distorted in the way it is reported, was also mentioned in some German papers, so it is good to read about what led to that story.

Wolfgang