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Massing is an architectural term.

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<i>Einsatzgruppen</i> Nazi paramilitary death squads, part of the SS

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Jochen Mass German racecar driver

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Hede Massing, née "Hedwig Tune", was an Austrian actress in Vienna and Berlin, communist, and Soviet intelligence operative in Europe and the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. After World War II, she defected from the Soviet underground. She came to prominence by testifying in the second case of Alger Hiss in 1949; later, she published accounts about the underground.

Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz) valley

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Deutsche Messe was published by Martin Luther in 1526. It followed his work Formula missae from the year 1523, pertaining to the celebration of a Latin mass. Both of these masses were meant only as suggestions made on request and were not expected to be used exactly as they were, but could be altered. The function of the mass, according to Luther, is to make people hear the word.

The Holocaust Genocide of the European Jews by Nazi Germany and other groups

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Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre

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<i>Intelligenzaktion</i> secret mass murder conducted by Nazi Germany against the Polish intelligentsia early in the Second World War

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