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TIL when the Nazis designated the Beer Hall Putsch site as “sacred” and made it compulsory for citizens to do the Nazi salute when passing-by, as a form of passive resistance, people would take a detour alley that is nicknamed “Shirker’s Lane”, bypassing the beer hall completely.

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