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== Real Life ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131009235324/http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/st-01.html "Special treatment"] was one of the euphemisms used by the Nazis. Others include the special units (work units of death camps) and task forces (death squads).
** The Nazis had a sort of hierarchy of euphemisms concerning the Holocaust: the phrase "resettlement in the East" was used for general public consumption. "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," for most government documents, "liquidation" for those pertaining directly to the Holocaust. "Annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" was used only in the most closed circumstances, to those who knew the stakes.
** The term "concentration camp" was a Deadly Euphemism used by the Nazis for the death camps they used to exterminate Jews and other undesirables. The original definition of "concentration camp" was a place to imprison large populations of people without the intent of killing them, similar to the internment camps that held Japanese Americans during [[World War II]].
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