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TIL about Birendra Mazumdar. He was a little-known Indian-British hero of the infamous Colditz Castle POW prison during World War II, who defied the Nazis. He was shunned and treated terribly by the British, facing racism and accusations of theft, corruption and treason when he escaped.

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