Gino Bartali

Gino Bartali

Gino Bartali was a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in World War 2 Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.

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