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The Moscow radio, with its best button-nose deadpan, last week reportedthat the following story was current among German soldiers:
Adolf Hitler, visiting the Eastern Front, asked a soldier what his lastwish would be if a Russian shell should land near him. “I would wish,”the soldier answered, “that my Führer stood beside me.”
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