Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Joachim Hoffmann ki Königsberg, East Prussia, i te tau 1930. I ngā wāhanga whakamutunga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ka rere te whānau o Hoffmann ki te uru o Tiamana
ki te karo i te ope Whero e haere mai ana. I reira ka noho te whānau ki Berlin.