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Bec Zajac and Sophie Kesteven for Life Matters

Roland Breckwoldt had a romantic vision of becoming a ringer. He was in for a shock

When he was growing up in Sydney in the 1940s, Roland Breckwoldt was often ostracised.

His German parents had migrated to Australia in 1938, just before World War II began, and the locals weren't always friendly to the family.

"There were returned soldiers living near[by] who had nothing to do with us. There were neighbours who never spoke to me at all," Breckwoldt tells ABC RN's Life Matters.

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