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atomfullerene t1_j1t6vdh wrote

>But also quickly forgotten after WWII by all but British.

Not quite, I learned the stanza from wikipedia as a 90's kid in the USA. I have absolutely no idea where.

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Nukemind t1_j1tf73c wrote

I learned it as an American kid in the 2000’s in the Boy Scouts. We sang it all the time to the point even the Scoutmaster yelled at us to “Leave poor Hitler alone!”

To his credit he realized what he said afterwards and we all laughed.

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