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TIL The highest scoring fighter pilot in history was thrown in a Soviet Gulag after the war, and knocked out an interrogator by hitting him with his chair. When he was placed in solitary confinement, the entire camp rioted. He survived the gulag and went on to lead Germany’s first post war squadron.

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