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TIL during the siege of Stalingrad the commanding officer Friedrich Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal with the expectation he commit suicide rather than surrender. After he surrendered he was heard saying “I have no intention of shooting myself for a Bohemian corporal”. He lived till 1957.

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