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25
May
1943

SS murders 1,035 Roma prisoners during an epidemic-prevention selection

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📅 25 May 1943 📍 Germany

SS authorities murdered 1,035 Roma from the Auschwitz family camp, including Roma from Białystok and Austria. The killings were justified as a measure to prevent typhus, converting a crisis created by camp overcrowding and lethal deprivation into a pretext for murder. The event demonstrates how medicalized language and camp bureaucracy served racial extermination.

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035 Roma prisoners

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Auschwitz-Birkenau

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