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Italian hospital honoured for saving Jews during WWII
A Catholic hospital in Rome has been honoured for saving the lives of dozens of Italian Jews during the Second World War by pretending they had a deadly disease.
Doctors and nurses invented a fake infection and quarantined Jewish patients in order to trick German commanders.
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Rome correspondent, David Willey, reports.
(Photo: Reinhard Heydrich, the deputy Gestapo chief, also known as 'The Hangman', in Rome in 1936. Credit: Getty Images)
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