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Dr Muller v Klaus Junge, Leipzig 1942. Chess history could have been very different had today's winner lived a full life. In 1941-2 at age 17-18, Junge was the best teenager chess had ever known, holding his own in top tournaments with the legends Alexander Alekhine and Paul Keres.
Post-war, he would surely have become a serious Western rival to Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik. But in 1943 Junge was called up for the Wehrmacht. In April 1945, with the Third Reich close to collapse, Lieutenant Junge rallied a ragtag group of fleeing troops on the main road to his parents' home in Hamburg, and told them that Germany could still win the war..See the full content of this document
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