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    95 days ago

    They start shooting when they first see him and he takes cover on the building we see behind them. He calls out that he’s a Polish civilian, not a German soldier. They tell him to come out with his hands up. They ask “why the (German military uniform) coat?”, he says, “I was cold”. He stripped it off a dead man.

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      45 days ago

      The coat was given to him by a German officer, which also provided him with some food while he was hidden in the attic of a large abandoned house the Germans had taken over to use as base of operations. The officer gave him the coat on the night they retreated from the Russians, which are the dudes in the middlest frame.