Military museum obtains hat once belonging to Hitler

A hat that once belonged to Adolf Hitler will now be preserved forever, thanks to the family of a World War II veteran from Albany.

Rich Marowitz was just 19 years old when he got to Munich, Germany with the 42 nd Rainbow Division in April 1945.

Marowitz and his unit had just liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp a day earlier. Tens of thousands of people were killed there. The horrors of what they saw there would haunt them…

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