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Was the practice of putting blanks as well as live ammunition into different rifles of a firing squad during WWI widely used or were the soldiers just told so, to make the task a bit easier on their psyche? Did this originate in WWI or was it common among firing squads before?

by /u/LukeInTheSkyWith in /r/AskHistorians

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