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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl - How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis (Paperback)
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl - How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis (Paperback)
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The gruesome disease typhus, transmitted by body lice, afflicts the
desperate: refugees, soldiers and ghettoised peoples. The Nazis,
who equated the louse with "parasitic, subhuman" Jews, so feared
the disease that they granted special status to the Polish
scientist Rudolf Weigl, the only one who could make an effective
vaccine. Weigl's laboratory became a centre of intellectual
activity and resistance. Among his assistants was Ludwik Fleck,
later sent to Buchenwald, where he deceived the Nazis and
undermined their medical trials. Drawing on extensive research and
interviews, Arthur Allen tells a harrowing story of two brave
scientists, who put their training to the best use, at the highest
personal risk.
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