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This is how I became Charles Hannam

   I went to school for three years. Afterwards I wanted to get away. I was unhappy at my sister’s house. Nothing seemed to go right for me. I loathed all the refugees because they spoke such bad English. It came out as a sort of self-loathing. And then I went to the Recruiting Office of the British army. When I went for my medical in a tent on the Norfolk coast, the major asked me my name. Karl Hirschland. He looked at me and said: “With a name like that the Germans will shoot you if they catch you.”
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