August 25: the history they never taught you.

One storyfrom the archive happened on this date, each drawn from published sources before it was written.

1939

He Bluffed Hitler With an Empty Briefcase

A British civil servant walked into Hitler's office in 1939 carrying nothing but blank papers, and unintentionally kept World War II from starting three months early.

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