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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Why did SS authorities murder 1,035 Roma at Auschwitz on 25 May 1943?
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Explanation
The USHMM notes that the SS murdered the prisoners under the guise of epidemic prevention.