As a report by experts who have themselves experienced all of this, this retelling of events is by its very nature full of gaps. We are writing in the year 2103.
He studied history, law and music at the University of Marburg Germany, and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, where befriended the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, who was teaching at the Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School.
In 1960 he shooted his first films, before the launch of the New German Cinema.
He also was a remarkable fiction writer, which tended toward the short story form, significant for their formal experimentation and insistently critical thematics.
A Verhoeven dystopia told through the documents that the mindless bureaucrats are signing as they send waves of young people in to fight the 'evil bugs'; not literal here, but the bugs in the system of our own creation, the atomic warfare and the utter destruction of the global climate. Horrifying and combative to its own readers.