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TIL German soldiers can disobey orders if they consider them to be inhumane

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woADY TIL about "Armsünderfett" (German: fat or grease from "poor sinners" put to death). Many executioners recovered the fat from the bodies of their executant, to be used in ointments for various diseases.
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