ABSTRACT
The author's parents had been happy in Scotland there was no question of staying on there, mainly because they found the climate too harsh. At first they considered moving to the South of England to be near children and grandchildren. As the author's father had worked in Britain for a comparatively short period, his British pension was far too small to live on whereas under the German restitution laws he was receiving his full professorial salary from the University of Gottingen. That money was not transferable to Britain at the time although it became so some years later was one reason for a return to Germany. Their wish to contribute what they could to a democratic rehabilitation of Germany and the hope that his father's special position as a universally esteemed leader and teacher in physics might be put to use to help prevent any possibility of German rearmament and specifically to prevent atom bombs getting into German hands.
