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On 1 September 1939, Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland started the Second World War. Six years later, an estimated 55 million people had lost their lives on the battlefields, in air raids and concentration camps, and they died of injuries, starvation and epidemics.
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Häusler, T. (2006). the renaissance of phages during the war. In: Viruses vs. Superbugs. Macmillan Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-55228-9_4
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