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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 78639
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 might survive at that height.

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 might survive at that height.

Photographer
Dr. Sigmund Rascher
Date
March 1942 - August 1942
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
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

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Source Record ID: 238.5.3-Brandt Case, Pros. Ex. 610
 
Record last modified: 2020-06-22 00:00:00
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