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Emmy award-winning actorEric Braedencame to America from Germany in 1959.

“The most I’ve ever done in one day is 62 pages of dialogue,” he stated.

Eric Braeden posing

Five hundred thousand bombs were … thrown over my town.

I grew up in the rubble, worked on farms" (perSoap Central).

He credited sports with getting him through high school.

Eric Braeden posing

Because Germans never discussed the war, Braeden had no idea about the brutality that occurred.

She would only state that what had happened to the Jews was “unforgivable.”

My early impressions were of English tanks coming through the village and arresting my father."

Eric Braeden holding his book and smiling