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to be executed. His fate was predetermined, but he tried desperately to change it. Attempting to cheat death, he jumped on the move from the truck. Unfortunately, he was too injured to escape. Beaten enough to run away. And the machine gun fire dropped him dead in the middle of the street in Metz.
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