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GG- In 1951 I was drafted into the US Army, and I was lucky enough to be chosen to go to counter intelligence. The Korean War was going on then. After I went through basic training, I went through 14 weeks, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, of counter intelligence school. I loved counter intelligence school. They told us that we were the top one to two percent of the people that had been drafted into the army. I worked very hard to be in the top one or two percent of anything that came along. I was very, very good at working hard, and it all paid off when I finished. I think I was second or third in my class of forty. When we came up to assignment day, we were special personnel because we had gone through this course. They didn't just hand us a piece of paper that said, You're going to Korea, You're going here, You're going there . They called us in for an interview, to make sure we were satisfied with our assignment. Because I had a smattering of German, they sent me to Austria instead of Korea. They did the interviews in alphabetical order. I was paying close attention to where everybody was being sent, and everybody was being sent to Korea. So, when the officer called me in and said, “ Well, I guess you know where you're going ,” and I said, “ Yeah, Korea,” He said, “ Gottlieb? Korea? You speak German, don't you?” And I said, “ Yavohl !” And off to Austria I went. I was very happy, generally, and that turned out to be a very valuable experience. I wasn't that young, I was going on 22. Austria was filled at that time with what was called displaced persons. They had come from Eastern Europe and many of them had held exalted positions,
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Gilbert Gottlieb: Developmental Psychologist and Theorist
[The original interview was done by Dr. David Miller and the video recording
was made at the Gottlieb home by Marc Gottlieb. The interview was transcribed
from the GGvideo.mov file into a Word file by Edyta Eansor and then edited by
Dr. Douglas Wahlsten and Dr. Miller.Taken from: http://icube.uconn.edu/GGvideo.mov .]
GG- In 1951 I was drafted into the US Army, and I was lucky enough to be chosen to go to counter intelligence. The Korean War was going on then. After I went through basic training, I went through 14 weeks, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, of counter intelligence school. I loved counter intelligence school. They told us that we were the top one to two percent of the people that had been drafted into the army. I worked very hard to be in the top one or two percent of anything that came along. I was very, very good at working hard, and it all paid off when I finished. I think I was second or third in my class of forty. When we came up to assignment day, we were special personnel because we had gone through this course. They didn't just hand us a piece of paper that said, You're going to Korea, You're going here, You're going there . They called us in for an interview, to make sure we were satisfied with our assignment. Because I had a smattering of German, they sent me to Austria instead of Korea. They did the interviews in alphabetical order. I was paying close attention to where everybody was being sent, and everybody was being sent to Korea. So, when the officer called me in and said, “ Well, I guess you know where you're going ,” and I said, “ Yeah, Korea,” He said, “ Gottlieb? Korea? You speak German, don't you?” And I said, “ Yavohl !” And off to Austria I went. I was very happy, generally, and that turned out to be a very valuable experience. I wasn't that young, I was going on 22. Austria was filled at that time with what was called displaced persons. They had come from Eastern Europe and many of them had held exalted positions,
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