Lionel Royce was an actor in Nazi Germany who lost his job for being a Jew. He went to the Alps, grew a beard and bathed in hydrogen to dye all his hair. Nazis praised him as living proof of superior Aryan blood when he returned to the stage as a successful self-taught actor.
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