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Jeremy Corbyn

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Because a lot of Nazis went to Paraguay and the western parts of Brazil.

I remember Stroessner was then the dictator of Paraguay who had given space to the Nazis to come there.

And so it was a sort of it was kind of like a specter over the society and so you'd you'd meet somebody who was clearly German or German speaking and

Who are they?

When did you come?

And if they'd come there in the 1920s or 30s, it's quite possible there were people getting away from the Nazis.

If they came in 1945, they were pretty likely to be Nazis trying to change their identity and move on somewhere else.

So here you are.

It was interesting.

I got a job for a while on a farm.

As a labourer?

No, I was looking after pigs and doing a bit of tractor driving and things like that.

I enjoyed that.

Pigs are very intelligent.

And how quickly did you realise I'm going to be a... You may be a vegetarian, actually.

Because I thought these pigs, they're far too intelligent.

From then on.

Yeah, so then I briefly went to college, but decided that wasn't for me, so left, and then went back to Shropshire and did various jobs and got very involved in the local Labour Party and unions and so on.