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I recall reading somewhere that when the concentration camps were liberated, volunteers/nurses and medics tried to help the survivors by doing their make up and hair, to show them they saw them as people. Did this happen in multiple places? How did medics go about treating survivors emotionally?

by /u/nueoritic-parents in /r/AskHistorians

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