- 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.
Describes 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.
- Variant Title
- How two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Allen, Arthur, 1959-
- Published
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- Locale
- Poland
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index.
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.