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TIL while in Harvard University, Dale Maple was removed from the German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and was dismissed from ROTC for praising dictatorship. During WW2, he helped German POWs to escape, was sentenced to hang and was commuted to 10 years

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