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18. Marge Schott

Thu Jun 12, 2014, 08:05 PM

Jun 2014

Remember her? She owned a baseball team. She credited Adolph with the train thing, too. So have a lot of other people. I guess they couldn't find anything good Hitler did.

Added on edit: Actually, I don't think she used the train line, she said something like, "Hitler did some good things in the beginning." I should probably google things before I quote recklessly.

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