Visiting professor, author and internationally known physicist Harald Fritzsch will recount his non-violent protests as a college student in 1960’s East Germany and eventual escape to the West across the Black Sea in a canoe. Professor Fritzsch will also describe how communist authorities attempted to turn students and scientists into spies and informants to the secret police. After the reunification of Germany, professor Fritzsch helped then Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, develop a policy to discern scientists from spies.