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TIL the German Reichstag/parliament in 1933 voted to give Hitler absolute control. 1 person spoke against it:Social Democratic leader Otto Wels, who spoke the last free words in the Reichstag:“You can take our lives & our freedom, but you cannot take our honor. We are defenseless but not honorless.”

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R5pY9 TIL Leon Trotsky was the only notable absentee from Vladimir Lenin's funeral, which attended by tens of thousands despite the freezing, snowy weather in Moscow in late January. His claim that he was given the wrong date for the funeral turned out to be true. Stalin did so, on purpose
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