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Hello, my friends, Dakuya here, and welcome back to the History of Everything podcast.

My friends, going into this here, it is just myself.

Gabby is currently not feeling the best.

But over the course of doing research for a episode that I was planning on doing all my gaming page,

which is, what if Hitler had

been assassinated or overthrown between the period of 1940 and 1942? It really got me thinking,

wait a minute, what if this actually had happened? Or at least, how is it that this could have

happened? And so it got me researching a ton of different things about assassination attempts on varying different leaders.

And my God, like, look, when I'm starting this from the very beginning, over the course of history, there has always been questions about what would have happened if X had come to power or been assassinated or anything like that.

And it really should come as a, well, not really much of a surprise that as the

second great war was gearing up and getting ready to happen and bullets began to fly, that there

would actually be several attempts that would be made on the life of the German chancellor, Adolf

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