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“Justification was required to inspire thousands of Germans to take the actions that enabled the Holocaust, The unproven geometazine notion that typhus was a Jewish disease, one that moreover did no real harm to Jews. Since they were the racial and geographical carriers of it offered the typical German Public Health officer in occupied Poland, a psychological out, It seemed to justify a policy of keeping Jews locked behind ghetto walls, where typhus could be confined without threatening the vulnerable Aryan population, especially the German occupants as the historian, Christopher Browning, writes the persistent, medieval, anti-semitic stereotype of the Jew as the plague carrier, thus called forth as a modern medical response. The Revival of a medieval invention, the sealed ghetto, The medical establishment of the newly occupied territories, was a Motley collection of opportunistic hacks, misled Patriots and True Believers.”
― Arthur Allen, The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis