A prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 78629

Overview

Caption: A prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments.

For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions simulating those found at 15,000 meters in altitude were created, in an effort to determine if German pilots could fly and survive at that height.
Photographer: Dr. Sigmund Rascher
Date: March 1942 - August 1942
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 238.5.3-Brandt Case, Pros. Ex. 610

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS DACHAU MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS (HIGH ALTITUDE) MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS/VICTIMS PRISONERS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- WARTIME -- Medical Experiments -- High Altitude