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The Black Code (more formally, Military Intelligence Code No. 11) [1] was a secret code used by US military attachés in the early period of World War II. The nickname derived from the color of the superencipherment tables/codebook binding. [2] The code was compromised by Axis intelligence, the information leak costing a great many British lives.
Using this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people. [216] According to the College of Education of the University of South Florida "Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy". [217] R.J. Rummel estimated the death toll due to Nazi Democide at 20.9 million ...
In 2000, the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) [15] [16] [17] determined that a uniform code system was needed after three people were killed in a shooting incident at a hospital after the wrong emergency code was called. While codes for fire (red) and medical emergency (blue) were similar in 90% of California hospitals queried ...
Therefore, the medical personnel started to write the numbers on the corpses' chests with indelible ink. Difficulties increased in 1941 when Soviet prisoners of war came in masses, and the first few thousand tattoos were applied to them. This was done with a special stamp with the numbers to be tattooed composed of needles.
Code Black may refer to: Code Black (emergency code), a hospital emergency code denoting a threat to personnel, patient's own self code black is called during a threat to anyone’s safety within a hospital. Code Black, 1997 album by Jimmy Pursey; Code Black (DJ), Australian DJ and music producer; Code Black, a 2015–2018 American television ...
In many of the studies, a large number of the subjects were poor, racial minorities, and/or prisoners. Often, subjects were sick or disabled people, whose doctors told them that they were receiving "medical treatment". They were used as the subjects of harmful and deadly experiments, without their knowledge or consent.
The programme was authorised by Hitler but the killings have since come to be viewed as murders in Germany. The number of people killed was about 200,000 in Germany and Austria, with about 100,000 victims in other European countries. [18] Following the war, a number of the perpetrators were tried and convicted for murder and crimes against ...
The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. [26] 10,124 Bulgarian [26] and 21,035 Romanian deaths [27] were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War [28] and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising. [24] The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.