Not content with posters plastered all over walls, homes, and on nearby trees, we were now forbidden the use of a radio, a typewriter, or a telephone, although we had all three hidden in my father’s bedroom. We couldn’t go to the shops until four-thirty in the afternoon, and by then everything would have been sold but for the kind shopkeepers who kept things back for us, at grave risk to themselves. We were forbidden from all public places such as squares, restaurants, gardens, cafés, libraries, and sports grounds. We couldn’t take a tram, enter a cinema, or even sit in a private garden. All
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