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April 27, 1982
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A plaque in memory of 20 Jewish school children who were murdered by the Nazis after having been subjected to inhuman medical experiments, was dedicated in Hamburg. Wolfgang Tamowski, the city’s senior official for cultural affairs, denounced the crime as one of the most brutal of the Nazi regime. One of the murderers is still alive, Amold Strippel, the SS official said to have ordered the children put to death. The children were hanged on April 20, 1945, shortly before Germany surrendered in order to cover up the effects of the experiment.

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