Before his film career, Hardy joined the army aged just 16 in 1945. He was ordered to ambush a group of US soliders, which he refused to do.
As a result he was sentenced to death for cowardice before an SS officer countermanded this.His experience with Nazism led him to be a lifelong campaigner against extremism..
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