Shortly after his birth, his family moved to
Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest. Together with his brother, he graduated from high school in
Regensburg. He studied German, History and English at
Erlangen, and later sociology and
psychology in Frankfurt am Main. In 1967, after an encounter with
Karl Gerold, he began working as an editor at the
Frankfurter Rundschau, where he was responsible for South America and Security Policy. His telephone conversations with Thomas Schwätzer (Max Watts) were intercepted during 1973 by the US Secret Services as part of Project
Penguin Monk. In December 1977, he was offered a position in the planning department of the Bonn Chancellery where he learned that for years he had been subjected to surveillance by the German authorities. In 1978 he received the
Wächterpreis der Tagespresse, a German journalism award for excellence in
investigative reporting, for his discovery that travelers who were found carrying literature considered left-wing extremist were being detained by the border police. He also questioned whether public libraries were also being subject to censorship by the authorities. He was a critic of the security and defense policy of
NATO and of the
German Federal Government. A number of works of
nuclear holocaust fiction appeared in 1983, and Guha published his
Ende: A Diary of the Third World War. == Quotes ==