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The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
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Romani people
Indo-Aryan ethnic group
The Romani people, also known as the Roma or the Romani are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Although they are widely dispersed, their most concentrated populations are believed to be in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1940–1945)
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