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Reporter Sam Jones investigates the former chief operating officer of Wirecard

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While most of you were playing ball in the sandlocks, this war started.

Adolf Hitler's all-out attack on Poland makes the long-dreaded European war a certainty.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

Steve Rogers was a scrawny kid growing up in New York.

And to the Republic, for which it stands.

World War II was going on. The United States had not yet been involved.

Adolf Hitler's mechanized forces are racing toward Paris as French resistance collapses.

There was a lot of unrest going on in America of what was happening over in Europe and across the globe.

We heard that a thing called the Nazi Party had taken over.

He wanted to do what he could.

A chance to help the Army Air Forces throw a punch that'll knock Hitler and Tojo bow-legged.

He tried to enlist, but was rejected for all types of purposes.

One nation, indivisible.

His size to having asthma, flat feet.

With liberty. He just couldn't be enlisted.

And justice for all.

But that wasn't going to deter him.

Eventually, this caught the eye of the U.S. military, and so they were going through their own experiments at the time to develop what is known as the super soldier.

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