Word: unerwunscht
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Killing reached its apotheosis in Nazi Germany, and so did the language used to avoid saying so. Prisoners sent to concentration camps in the east carried identity papers marked "Ruckkehr unerwunscht," meaning "return unwanted," meaning death. Whole carloads of such prisoners were assigned to "Sonderbehandlung," meaning "special treatment," also meaning death. The totality of persecutions and killings was called "die Endloöung," meaning "the final solution," that too meaning death...
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