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Question: History buffs - can you recall an incident in history in which!.!.!?

a prisoner of war gave a guard something in order to spare his life, or an incident when a soldier had information that he could hold against a guard, and this in turn kept the prisoner alive!? Thank you very much!.
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I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but have you seen the movie called "the Pianist"!?

It's about a Polish Jew trying to survive the war!. By the end of the movie, he is sick, skinny and half dead, when a German SS'er finds him in a bombed house!. Instead of killing him or taking him away, the German SS'er asks what the Polish Jew used to do for a living before the war started, to which the Jew responds: I used to be a pianist!. The German SS'er then asks the Jew to play something for him, and gives him his (SS)coat to stay warm!. So the German soldier did not kill him, instead he gave him his jacket!. Not long after that Poland was liberated!.

The movie is based on a true story!.!. anyone that has not seen it, should go watch it!
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