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# 2026-04-03 20:02:25

Excerpt from [[daniel-kahneman]]'s Nobel Prize biographical
for his 2002 prize in Economic Sciences:

> It must have been late 1941 or early 1942.
> Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew.
> I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late.
> I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home.
> As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching.
> He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others –
> the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers.
> As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast,
> I noticed that he was looking at me intently.
> Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me.
> I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater.
> He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German.
> When he put me down, he opened his wallet,
> showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money.
> I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right:
> people were endlessly complicated and interesting.[^1]

[^1]: [nobelprize.org](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/biographical/)