The Devil in Vienna

[…]Uncle Herbert was right, part of the time they made them use toothbrushes, for a joke. They sloshed bucketfuls of ammonia and other stuff that burns the skin and stings the eyes over the street and laughed when “by accident” they also sloshed the scrubbers’ hands and sometimes their faces. O. O. Rabbi Taglicht, my father, and some others thought…