Syndrome K
Syndrome K

Syndrome K

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2019
1h 20m
6.7(6 votes)
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Syndrome K is the true story about a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease created by three Roman Catholic doctors during the holocaust to hide Jews in a Vatican-affiliated hospital.

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