So I'm reading Wrong Passport, a memoir written by a gay American man stuck in Budapest during WWII.
It's a fascinating book in more ways than one. For example, I just realized his friend "Teddy the Pilot" is none other than Count Almásy László, explorer of "The English Patient" fame.
I also just learned that Teddy was a n*zi sympatiser and at the same time in a relationship with an anti-fascist German soldier.
I did not have that on my bingo sheet for this book.
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Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD
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