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Epidemics of typhus struck the German army invading Russia, although the number of deaths is unclear. Similarly, it is impossible to know how many hundreds of thousands of the deaths in Nazi concentration camps were due to typhus, as opposed to other causes.

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Anne Frank suffered from typhus, a bacterial infection spread by body lice. She contracted the disease while in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II.


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