A prisoner in a special chamber loses consciousness in response to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions comparable to those found at 15,000 meters in altitude were created in an effort to determine if German pilots might survive at that height.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 78619A
- Photographer
- Dr. Sigmund Rascher
- Date
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March 1942 - August 1942
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- WARTIME -- Medical Experiments -- High Altitude
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
A prisoner in a special chamber loses consciousness in response to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions comparable to those found at 15,000 meters in altitude were created in an effort to determine if German pilots might survive at that height.
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