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Did sailors on long transoceanic voyages (Columbus, conquistadors, Magellan, slave ships, etc) ever supplement their diets by fishing and trapping (birds?) on the go while in the middle of their journey?

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Many nazis took on the identities of dead jews after the war to try to hide from the authorities. Is there any record of a jewish person taking on the identity of a (dead?) nazi to try to hide from being rounded up during WWII?

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Did sailors on long transoceanic voyages (Columbus, conquistadors, Magellan, slave ships, etc) ever supplement their diets by fishing and trapping (birds?) on the go while in the middle of their journey?	161
Many nazis took on the identities of dead jews after the war to try to hide from the authorities. Is there any record of a jewish person taking on the identity of a (dead?) nazi to try to hide from being rounded up during WWII?	33