Today it would probably no longer be a problem. I will come to a few "hurdles" that were put in my way in the past...

There weren't many of us, but there were a few young people who had experienced similar and similarly traumatic things in their childhood. I'll just mention Pierre Boom, the son of the Chancellery spy Günter Guillaume, as an example - who at 17, as a young man rebelling against conservatives and philistines in West Germany in the 1970s, learnt through the arrest of his father that he was actually a communist and a citizen of the GDR...