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TIL the Nazi party had used the methods of the Turkish state as a standard to draw inspiration from. A Nazi publication of 1925 exalts the new Turkish state for its "cleansing" policy against the Greeks. Between 450,000–750,000 Greeks were killed during the 1923 genocide

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