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Being of recent German-American heritage, Gunther did not automatically enlist in the armed forces as many others did soon after the United States declared war on
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refused to accede to the German negotiators' request to declare an immediate ceasefire or truce so that there would be no more useless waste of lives among the common soldiers. The failure to declare a truce, even between the signing of the documents for the
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