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TIL that Hanns Scharff, a German Luftwaffe interrogator, used kindness and subterfuge to interrogate his charges. Hans created a bond with captured Allied pilots. His stratagem was subtle and calculated, and he never resorted to hurting any of the people with whom he came into contact

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