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The victorious occupation by the Russian army destroys an idyllic pre-teen life as a German boy in northern Czechoslovakia during WW II. He abandons his belief in the Nazi doctrines. Reality deletes any previous thoughts for aspirations of post-war-defeat guerilla warfare. The nation-state doctrine of the Czech regime results in the expulsion of German minorities and expropriation of their properties. A personal warning of pending deportation to a concentration camp with the risk of death causes the mother and two children to flee through occupied territory and a guarded border to the West. Flight to personal freedom. Deprived of food, clothing, housing, and livelihood. To a decade of semi-poverty and material needs. Enrollment at a German university and a Fulbright scholarship in the U.S. provide the opportunities to acquire skills and knowledge to further shape a young man into a polymath. Following his Manifesto for a Life. Love and marriage in the U.S. point the way to future life there.

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Roland Haertl is a serial entrepreneur. During his early education years, he strove to develop himself into a polymath. He studied and acquired skills, knowledge, and expertise in several languages, mathematics, world history, history of art, reading of literature and philosophy, and engineering. At age 19 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to in the US before obtaining a graduate degree in structural and civil engineering in Germany. He holds several patents. His design of the Fremont bridge in Portland Oregon was selected from several for construction in 1966.Before this he was born a German ethnic in Czechoslovakia and lived there during World War II. The occupation by the Russian army and concurrent ethnic cleansing by the Czech nation state necessitated his family's flight to the West.He lives with his wife, Leslie Kolisch, in the Pacific Northwest.

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