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Theresienstadt

A solitary figure walks down a cobblestone path leading to a large, historic building with two prominent towers, surrounded by rows of smaller buildings under a cloudy sky.

The Habsburg fortress town of Terezín, in what is now the Czech Republic, used as a political prison. Princip was held there from late 1914 in a damp casemate that worsened his tuberculosis. He lost an arm to the disease before dying in April 1918, weighing under forty kilos. A generation later, the Nazis turned the same town into a concentration camp and propaganda showpiece for the Red Cross.

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