Doctors Saved Jews From Nazis by Inventing a Fake Illness

The Second World War was a terrible and scary moment for everyone, but especially for the people that the Nazi party of Germany wanted to kill. Families were broken up, and millions of people were killed. But at that time, some people tried to help the people they could. For instance, in Italy, doctors spared many Jewish lives by telling them they had a phony disease called "Syndrome K."
The doctors made the Nazis think that the sickness was very contagious and dangerous. This let the Italian doctors put their Jewish patients in quarantine, where they couldn't be seen.
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