During World War II Esperanto speakers were targeted by the Nazis, who saw the language as part of a Jewish conspiracy and named its speakers enemies of the state. Esperanto speakers were sent to concentration camps. The adult children of the language’s creator, L.L. Zamenhof, were specifically sought out and murdered by Hitler’s regime.
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