The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl, how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis, Arthur Allen
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The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl, how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis, Arthur Allen
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index
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non fiction
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The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl
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Arthur Allen
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how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
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The story of "Jewish prisoner-scientists in Buchenwald who made a vaccine against ... typhus. Their untold secret: they provided the real vaccine to camp inmates but a fake one to German troops at the eastern front"--Dust jacket backDescribes the true story of how the eccentric Polish scientist tasked by the Nazis to create a typhus vaccine hid the intelligentsia from the Gestapo by hiring them to work in his laboratory
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Lice, war, typhus, madness -- City on the edge of time -- The louse feeders -- The Nazi doctors and the shape of things to come -- War and epidemics -- Parasites -- The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Wiegl [sic] -- Armies of winter -- The terrifying clinic of Dr. Ding -- "Paradise" at Auschwitz -- Buchenwald : rabbit stew and fake vaccine -- Imperfect justice
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