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Hitler was a bad speller

A newly uncovered postcard written by Hitler during World War I suggests that the Nazi dictator wasn't great at spelling.

The postcard was written by the former Fascist leader as he recovered from a war wound in a Munich hospital in December 1916.

In it he makes the mistake of spelling the German word 'sofort', meaning 'immediately', with double 'f' instead of one....

Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)