World War: Last Wish

The Moscow radio, with its best button-nose deadpan, last week reported that the following story was current among German soldiers:

Adolf Hitler, visiting the Eastern Front, asked a soldier what his last wish 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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