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TIL During the Warsaw Uprising, Hungarian troops stationed nearby (under the command of Nazi officers) used many different methods to help the Polish Resistance, including staging mock "partisan raids" in order to distribute arms and equipment, and even went as far to defect to the Resistance.

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