Lesser-known atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II included boxing matches that forced emaciated Jewish prisoners to fight each other to the death for the amusement of German SS officers. Like gladiatorial contests in the Roman Empire, these fights could go on endlessly until one bare-fed fighter left the other bloodied and unconscious, …

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