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that there was a plan to assassinate Hitler during a viewing of new winter uniform designs in 1943. The model was going to detonate a suicide bomb hidden in his knapsack. The plan failed because the viewing was cancelled after an Allied air raid destroyed the freight car carrying the uniforms.

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Fun Fact: that there was a plan to assassinate Hitler during a viewing of new winter uniform designs in 1943. The model was going to detonate a suicide bomb hidden in his knapsack. The plan failed because the viewing was cancelled after an Allied air raid destroyed the freight car carrying the uniforms.

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