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The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl : how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis

From a surrealistic lab in war time Poland comes the untold story of two brave scientists, a Christian and a Jew , risking everything to resist the Nazis. Rudolf Weigl granted special status by the Gestapo to produce his revolutionary typhus vaccine- used his lab to hide members of the intelligentsia, while shipping diluted vaccines to the Wehrmacht and smuggling potent versions into polish ghettos. Among the lab workers was Ludwik Fleck. a gifted Jewish immunologist, who helped sabotage sadistic medical trials after being send to Buchenwald. Together, their dedication to objective medicine in the face of brutal ideological pressure stands as one of the great acts of moral and intellectual heroism of World War II.

Arthur Allen