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TIL In WW2 Germany, Lilly Wust, a mother of 4 married to a Wehrmacht soldier, had a forbidden romance with Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish female resistance fighter. Felice was captured (and later killed), but Lilly continued to risk her own life by helping the resistance.

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