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TIL Adolf Hitler had a Jewish doctor that didn’t charge the Hitler family money during their finical hardship. During the Holocaust, Hitler labelled the doctor, Eduard Bloch, a ‘noble Jew’ and made sure that no harm came to the doctor.

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