THE FIRST YEARS - TEENAGER - THE WILD YEARS? - ADULT? DID HE EVER?

The very beginning

Karl Emil was born at "Rigshospitalet" in Copenhagen on Sunday, June 16, 1929 named partly after his father Emil Knudsen who during the German occupation of Denmark (April 9^th, 1940-May 4^th, 1945) had joined the resistant movement. He was informed on to the Nazis and imprisoned in "Vestre Fængsel" in Copenhagen. Only a few weeks before the allied forces freed Denmark, still in prison Emil died from a stroke. He is now resting - among others of many nationalities - in a memorial park "Ryvangen" in the outskirts of Copenhagen. It took hard on the then 16 years old Karl Emil, of course. More than ever he attached himself to his mother, the only real "family" he now had

(Allan Stephensen)