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1. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 93650Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Fooled the Nazis and Saved ...

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   Mar 29, 2017 · Syndrome K wasn't just a pet name to distinguish actual patients from Jews in hiding; the doctors had to find ways to make the disease seem real when Nazi troops combed the hospital for people to ...

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2. allthatsinteresting.com › syndrome-kSyndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Jews From The Nazis

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   Aug 15, 2017 · Called Syndrome K, the disease resulted in zero fatalities, and instead saved dozens of Jewish lives. Although highly feared, Syndrome K was actually nothing to worry about, as it was not a real disease at all.

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3. www.historytoday.com › k-syndrome-disease-savedK Syndrome, the Disease that Saved | History Today

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   Mar 3, 2019 · Behind the closed doors of the Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome was a ward filled with patients being treated for K Syndrome. This new and unfamiliar disease – whose name evoked Koch Syndrome (tuberculosis) – was a strong deterrent to the occupying Nazi soldiers who carried out routine searches of the hospital for Jews, partisans and anti-fascists.

4. www.history.co.uk › article › syndrome-k-the-fake-wwHow a fake disease saved Italian Jews from the Nazis

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   They were a glimmer of light during a dark time that resulted in few happy endings. One incredible story of defiance is lesser-known story of Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives. Although the persecution of Jews in Italy has been somewhat overshadowed by the decimation of the ...

5. www.historynet.com › syndrome-k-the-disease-thatSyndrome K — The 'Disease' that Saved Lives During WWII

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   Jul 6, 2021 · Syndrome K — The ‘Disease’ that Saved Lives During WWII. Dr. Giovanni Borromeo helped to come up with the ruse to save the lives of his fellow Italians. (Wiki Commons) It was a cough that did it. A fake cough that managed to save the lives of at least 20 Italian Jews. After the German occupation of Rome in September of 1943, Roman Jews ...

6. www.jta.org › 2022/08/12 › cultureTo save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented ...

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   Aug 12, 2022 · How the subject of his new documentary, “Syndrome K,” has largely escaped public attention is a mystery to filmmaker Stephen Edwards. “It’s the greatest elevator pitch in Hollywood,” he ...

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   Was Syndrome K a real disease?

   • Syndrome K wasn't just a pet name to distinguish actual patients from Jews in hiding; the doctors had to find ways to make the disease seem real when Nazi troops combed the hospital for people to round up.

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   What is Syndrome K?

   • Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives. During 1941 and 1945, Hitler’s Nazi Germany murdered around six million Jews, about two-thirds of the European Jewish population, in what would become known as The Holocaust.

   How a fake disease saved Italian Jews from the Nazis

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   Is Syndrome K a fictitious disease?

   • One incredible story of defiance is lesser-known story of Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives.

   How a fake disease saved Italian Jews from the Nazis

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   Why is Syndrome K on patient papers?

   • In a 2016 interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Ossicini recalled that “Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish. We created those papers for Jewish people as if they were ordinary patients, and in that moment when we had to say what disease they suffered?

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8. www.ifcj.org › news › stand-for-israel-blogSyndrome K – How a Fictitious Disease Saved Real Lives

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   Sep 1, 2021 · Because inside the hospital, the coughing, convulsing patients suffered from the mysterious and deadly “Syndrome K.” A Lifesaving Disease. The thing is, Syndrome K did not take any lives. Rather, it saved lives. For Syndrome K was not a real ailment at all.