Two German Jews came to Newbury to escape the Nazis in a story echoing modern-day struggles for refugees. “At school, I was always the ‘bloody Nazi’. I soon learnt to live with that,” said Newbury man, Eric Rein, aged 80. As part of World Refugee Week (June 17 to 23), I spoke to Eric about his German-Jewish parents, who found sanctuary in Newbury after fleeing their homeland. Eric, a retired electronic technician and senior design engineer, is not a practicing Jew. “I haven’t been in a synagogue in my life,” he said. Nor were his parents. But this mattered little to the Nazis, whose racist opp…