Hitler’s WW1 Gas Attack: Changing the Course of History Forever
20th century
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4m 57s
In October 1918, near the Belgian town of Ypres, a young German corporal named Adolf Hitler was caught in a British gas attack. Temporarily blinded, he was evacuated from the front just weeks before the war ended.
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