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TIL of Hugh O'Flaherty, a priest who saved the lives of 6500 Allied soldiers and Jews during WWII by hiding them in farms, homes and convents. He was a master at disguises and evaded capture by the Gestapo many times earning him the nickname “Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican”.

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