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The Holocaust: After a closely supervised visit to Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Red Cross official Maurice Rossel reported that conditions there were "almost normal".
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Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
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Theresienstadt Ghetto and the Red Cross
Nazi coverup of the Holocaust that fooled the Red Cross
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Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)
Period of Czechoslovak history
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International Committee of the Red Cross
Humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland
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Maurice Rossel
Swiss physician (d. 1997)
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