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I noticed every day that um every

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morning you wake up and you go under the

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street you see a different face you know

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color person uh a black person I should

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say they just started coming in coming

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in you know and I thought to myself

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these people must dropping out of

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Disguise because every morning you get

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up and you go down the street they're

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black

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people

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when I got here I I really was

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disillusion I'll tell the honest

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truth

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I came here in the winter time and it

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was very very very cold it was a shock

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to my system very foggy lots of fog you

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know you couldn't even see your hand in

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front of your face you know

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so sort of had to get used to it

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this area brings back a lot of memories

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to me I don't live far from me at the

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moment but um I more or less finish my

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growing up in this area you know used to

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go into the park here play cricket kick

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football it helped me with my

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sanity growing

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up we started to roam the streets

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together you know not not not in a bad

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way

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we had to be very careful how we walk

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the streets in those days cuz it were

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the teddy boys that we had to contend

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with you know they were aware of um

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black people coming into the city you

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know and I don't I don't think they

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liked it they formed themselves into

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groups to combat it you know whether it

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be with violence well it was with

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violence CU used to beat up a lot of the

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guys got beat up I know that for a fact

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but if if if they walked in gangs the

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black guys they never troubled them I

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was very fortunate because the leader of

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the Teddy Boys his girlfriend used to

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live next door to me and I got to meet

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him I didn't know that he was the leader

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of the teddy boys till one night I went

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to

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a a young people's dance you

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know

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they were all there and they rushed me

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they ganged around me in and I was in

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the circle on my

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own and I saw this guy push his way

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through you know and he said to me um he

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said to the guys um oh I know this guy I

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know this guy you know so leave him

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alone you know and they just just left

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me

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alone when I got posted to um to Germany

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I end up in uh Berlin

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and we were stationed at um spand bars

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and right next door to spand Barracks we

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used to have to do the guard duties

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there you know and uh when I got there I

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was assigned to do my duty as a a guard

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you know on the prison and uh we had um

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political prisoners there you

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know one of them I remember clearly was

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um Rudolph H he was second come on

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behind

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Hitler when he first saw me he didn't

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like it you know he said in broken

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English you know look what I come to now

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black man he guard

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me at the time it it it it it didn't

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really

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register being a young person I was only

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17 and a half then I didn't realize that

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who he actually was it only after when

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he start um talking about the war and

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everything I I realized who who do H was

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it was an honor you know uh to to to be

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able to guard such one so important you

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know at the time but me and him became

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very very good friends it's funny cuz

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when when I was off duty I used to go

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back into the prison me and him used to

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play

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cards you

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know I I I didn't realiz realized that

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um there was so much of a color issue

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throughout the world at that time you

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know I talk to him mostly because I

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didn't like his first remark look what I

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come to black man guard me

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now it wasn't just a German issue it was

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a world issue you know

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they always seem to be resentment

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against black people you

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know we have to accept each other

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because we all want people God's

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people