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Alexander Moritz Frey, a writer who was with Hitler in the trenches of World War 1, explains in a new biography that Hitler’s toothbrush moustache was not even the guy’s preference; Hitler was merely instructed to do so by his military superior so that his face would fit the respirator mask and survive the British mustard gas attacks. Without the order, Hitler would have gone down in history as some man sporting the then-fashionable large Prussian moustache.

In a hitherto unpublished essay, Frey, who died in 1957, wrote of his first meeting with Hitler in 1915: “A pale, tall man tumbled down into the cellar after the first shells of the daily evening attacks had begun to fall, fear and rage glowing in his eyes.

“At that time he looked tall because he was so thin. A full moustache, which had to be trimmed later because of the new gas masks, covered the ugly slit of his mouth.

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