During the German invasion of the Soviet Union he was a Panzersoldat and seriously wounded on the Eastern Front.
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During his time with Der Spiegel he also had more than 25 cover stories to his credit as well as interviews with Heinrich Nordhoff, SPD politician Georg Leber, Nikita Khrushchev, Walter Ulbricht and Henry Ford II.
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