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TIL that the UK ran a fake German radio station in WW2. The announcer of "Gustav Siegfried Eins" was "Der Chef", supposedly a patriotic traditional German officer who denounced corrupt Nazi officials. When "Der Chef" was killed by the Gestapo, the station accidentally broadcast his death twice.

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