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TIL In late 1918, A British Soldier Serving in France encountered a wounded German Corporal in No Mans Land, and raised his rifle to shoot him. The two men caught eyes, and nodded, than the British Private lowered his rifle, and let the German go. That German soldier was Adolf Hitler.

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