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Joseph Muscha Mueller was a boy born from Gypsy parents. He was adopted when he was one and a half. When he began school he would be beaten for "misbehaving" .  His classmate soften called him 'Bastard' or 'Mulatto' he was discriminated.  When Joseph was 12 he was taken from his classroom by two strangers who said he had "appendicitis" and needed immediate surgery. He protested, but was beaten and forcefully taken into surgery where he was sterilized, a procedure legalized by a Nazi law allowing the forced sterilization of "asocials," a category that included Gypsies. After his recovery, Joseph was to be deported to the concentration camp, but his foster father managed to have him smuggled from the hospital and hidden. Joseph survived the remainder of the war by hiding for five months in a garden shed.

Hitler's invasion of Russia in WW2