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The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl : how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
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Summary
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 back. Full description
Table of Contents:
- 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.
