[4] The background was the violent military suppression in June 1953 of the strikes and street protests convulsing the German Democratic Republic.

[4] They prepared leaflets and decorated walls and trucks with slogans, anti-government messages[5] and "modified" versions of the logo used by the country's ruling SED (party).

[6] In 1955 Ammer passed the exams that marked the end of his schooling and went on to study Medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) in Jena.

[2] They had nevertheless been noticed by the Ministry for State Security (MfS / Stasi) who during 1957 succeeded in infiltrating their own spy, a Theology student called Juergen Keller,[2] into the group.

„Wir wollten uns nicht die Frage stellen müssen, die wir unseren Eltern mit Blick auf das Nazi-Regime stellten: Warum habt ihr nichts getan?“ Starting with information obtained from the theology student, the Stasi launched a lengthy investigation process, apparently in May 1957.

He was summarily delivered to the German Federal Republic where he was now able to embark on a period of study that covered Political sciences, Law and History, which took him to the universities of Tübingen, Bonn and Erlangen (by Nuremberg).

He stayed with The Institute till its mandate was overtaken by the march of history and it was dissolved in 1991: he continued to live in nearby Euskirchen, in a small house filled with his books.