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On January 22, 1941, members of the Legionnaires of the Archangel Michael or Iron Guard, a major political party in Romania, drove 20 Jewish men, women, and children through the automated stages of a local slaughterhouse. After thrusting each body on a hook, they stamped the decapitated and limbless torsos “fit for human consumption.”1
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Simon, T.W. (2016). Comparing Genocides. In: Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415110_3
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