Alexander Moritz Frey is remembered today less for his literary works and more for Adolf Hitler's moustache. Frey, a German writer who was born in 1881, served in the same Bavarian army reserve regiment as Hitler in World War I. He reported that his fellow fighter in the trenches did not voluntarily choose the narrow moustache that would eventually be associated with him. He says that at the time Hitler had a long moustache and was required by his commanders to trim it so the gas mask worn by soldiers during the mustard gas attacks of the British would fit.
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