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 might survive at that height. - Photographer
- Dr. Sigmund Rascher
- Date
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March 1942 - August 1942
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 238.5.3-Brandt Case, Pros. Ex. 610
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2020-06-22 00:00:00
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