Witnesses of the 20th Century: nineteen fascinating interviews conducted by journalist André Groenewoud. With a foreword by Guido Knopp.

Significant witnesses, whose personal stories are closely intertwined with world events, share their experiences. Journalist André Groenewoud has asked them: How did the navigator of the "Enola Gay" feel when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima - and what about Nobuo Miyake, a survivor? How did Françoise Gilot live with Picasso, and how did Rockefeller fare from the once richest family in the world? What does Helmut Schmidt say about moral role models, Genscher about his most famous words, and Imelda Marcos about power and dictatorship?

Groenewoud, born in 1972, has written for Stern and Bunte, served as a correspondent in New York, and is currently deployed in Southeast Asia for ZDF. He received honest yet multifaceted answers to his questions. The result: human, political, and profoundly moving insights into a past yet still relevant century - from the sinking of the Titanic to the moon landing and the reunification of Germany.