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Hans Münch was a doctor known as The Good…

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020Weirdo

Hans Münch was a doctor known as The Good Man of Auschwitz because he refused to assist in the atrocities. His experiments were elaborate farces intended to protect inmates. He was the only person acquitted of crimes at the 1947 Auschwitz trials after many inmates testified in his favour.

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In 1934, Swiss banking secrecy…

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018Weirdo

In 1934, Swiss banking secrecy laws were strengthened to encourage Jews of Central & Eastern Europe, fearful of Nazis, to hide their assets in Swiss banks. After a majority of those depositors died during the Holocaust, the laws were used to wrongfully deny their heirs access to those accounts.

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A Jewish woman saved her own life…

February 24, 2018Weirdo

A Jewish woman saved her own life and her sister’s life in a German concentration camp by playing Chopin so beautifully that the commanding officer declared “She shall live.”

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After WWII some Jews faced fines for not having…

August 1, 2017Weirdo

After WWII some Jews faced fines for not having paid rent on their homes while they were incarcerated in concentration camps.

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During WW2, an Italian doctor prevented Nazis from…

June 17, 2017Weirdo

During WW2, an Italian doctor prevented Nazis from taking Jewish patients by claiming they suffered the fictitious ‘K Syndrome’. He saved 45 lives.

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During the Holocaust, Polish doctors Eugene Lazowski and Stanisław…

June 6, 2017Weirdo

During the Holocaust, Polish doctors Eugene Lazowski and Stanisław Matulewicz saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake Typhus epidemic. The Germans quarantined the area instead of risking outbreaks by sending them to concentration camps.

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In Germany (and other parts of Europe) there are brass…

June 6, 2016Weirdo

In Germany (and other parts of Europe) there are brass plaques set in the sidewalks in front of the former homes of people who fell victim to German Nazism.

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A man survived Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele removing his kidney without…

August 13, 2015Weirdo

A man survived Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele removing his kidney without anesthesia and survived a gas chamber as he was the 201st person in line for a chamber of 200 people.

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Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies…

July 14, 2015Weirdo

Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

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Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS-Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince…

May 30, 2015Weirdo

Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS-Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince him that the things he witnessed at Auschwitz were hallucinations on his part.

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