 During the subsequent liberation of Strasburg in 1945, one of his best friends died in combat.Shortly after, when in the south of Germany, his service ended when he returned to Algiers to bury his father.Early reports of sex reassignment surgery had been published in Germany in the 1920s, but it was not until approximately three decades later that the practice became more generally known; early surgeries were performed mostly in Europe and Casablanca.