The following story in a book I'm reading is apparently from a movie called "Europa Europa" which I know am curious to see on a sad day.
"It is based on the true story of a young Jewish boy who was sent from home to escape the Nazis but wound up at a school for promising Hitler Youth, his very survival dependent on never letting anyone know his true identity. Imagine - circumcised - how terrified he must have been even of taking a shower. Everything he heard and said had to pass in and out of his brain through a filter, multiplied by minus one.
This is effectively how the don't-ask, don't tell folks want us to live. It's dishonest and it takes a toll."
- Andrew Tobias
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