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TIL of American military officer Roddie Edmonds, whose unit was captured during WW2. When asked by his Nazi captors to identify the Jewish soldiers under his command, Edmonds replied, “We are all Jews here.” He saved as many as 200 Jewish-American soldiers from execution.

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