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TIL In Saving Private Ryan, the two “German” soldiers shot trying to surrender were members of the Ost Battalions, prisoners froms eastern European countries invaded and forced into the German army. They were saying, “Please don’t shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone!”

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