Stuff You Should Know

The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K

09.05.2023 - By iHeartPodcastsPlay

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In WWII, Italy went through its own Jewish Holocaust, terrible at first then horrific as the Nazis took over the country. In Rome, a group of doctors hid Jewish refugees in plain sight in their hospital by giving them a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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