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TIL about Ernst Reuter who was captured by Russians in WWI, joined the Revolution and became chairman of an autonomous German Soviet Republic, returned to Germany & politics, got sent to a concentration camp and exiled to Turkey, and then returned to be mayor of West Berlin during the Berlin Airdrop

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