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How A Fake Disease Known As Syndrome K Saved Dozens Of Jewish Romans During The Holocaust

As Nazi forces occupied Rome during World War II, doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital took in Jewish residents and diagnosed them with Syndrome K, a "highly contagious" disease they invented to keep the Gestapo out of the building.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/syndrome-k

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