The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In WWII, Italy went through its own Jewish Holocaust, terrible at first then horrific as the Nazis took over the country. In Rome, a group of doctors hid Jewish refugees in plain sight in their hospital by giving them a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease.

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0:00.0	I'm the Wizard of Oz, I'm the one making everything happen.
0:02.8	Real Housewife of Salt Lake City Star, Jen Shaw, is running the scam of the century.
0:08.2	I remember one time, Stuart lost like about 8 million.
0:13.0	Jen was very upset and she came down to the office late at night with Coach
0:17.6	yelling at him, asking him where their money is.
0:21.6	Listen to Queen of the Con, season 4, the Unreal Housewife.
0:25.9	On the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:56.2	Listen to the new season of Here's the Thing on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
1:04.1	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:08.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:18.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:19.7	I'm Josh and Chuck's here too and Jerry's here too and this is Stuff You Should Know of the
1:24.4	Podcast. That's right. With a sort of a lesser known story I think, I think probably most people
1:32.5	know thanks to Steven Spielberg, the story of Oscar Schindler saving about 1200 Jews from
1:41.1	the Nazis, but this is a smaller story where Italian doctors saved probably about 50 to 100 Jews.
1:49.7	Yeah, depending on who you ask and that is certainly nothing to sneeze at.
1:54.4	No, ask the families of those people, you know?
1:56.7	Oh, yeah, for sure.
1:57.9	You know?
1:58.4	Yeah.
1:59.1	Before we get any further, Chuck, I want to give it a hat tip to a listener named
2:03.3	Jettelaine Baldwin who wrote in many moons ago and suggested this.
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