Baptised [Catholic] at birth, what’s more. And- and of course I wasn’t the only one. There were a number of what you might call ‘non-Aryan’ …boys in the school. …And the other thing about this particular primary school was, that quite a lot of us more as a group went on to the Schotten. So that when we had our last class reunion, in 2010… some of us had been together not only since the beginning of grammar school in 1932, but since our first day at primary school in 1928.
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