Experiments on humans in Dachau - an early and rare publication that exposes the atrocities of the Nazis in Dachau

Experiments on humans in Dachau - an early and rare publication that exposes the atrocities of the Nazis in Dachau

Menschen Experimente in Dachau - Experiments on humans in the Dachau camp, edited by Jupp Feltes and Paul Langers. August Wagner printing. An instructive introduction by a former inmate of the Dachau camp, MARCEL NOPPENNEY, who himself underwent experiments performed by the Nazis on his body in the Dachau camp. [Luxemburg 1940s]. Extremely rare - does not appear in WorldCat at all.

A rare publication that came out at the end of the war and reveals the most horrific aspect that took place in the Dachau death camp - the medical experiments that the Nazis performed on the bodies of the camp inmates. The Luxenberg-born author, who was responsible for the garbage removal from those cells where the horrific experiments were done was himself a witness to the atrocities many times, at a later stage even being a sort of fringe of the medical staff, and he extensively reveals this activity that took place in the camp. He describes how officially two of the camp barracks were used for cruel medical experiments, under the guise of a clinic. The medical experiments included pressure cell decompression trials for the Luftwaffe, malaria and tuberculosis trials, new drug trials and hypothermia trials, with prisoners serving as Rabbits human experiments. Thousands of prisoners died or were left permanently disabled as a result of these experiments. Scientist Edward Mae, raised in the camp, Anopheles mosquitoes to turn them into biological weapons against Allied armies. Mae also tried them on Jewish prisoners, and the infections worked as planned. (But the project was shut down due to the cold weather conditions that made it impossible to raise a large amount of mosquitoes, which need hot and humid weather). He also describes the experiments of Prof. Schilling under Himmler's experiments with malaria patients with strong bodies, in an attempt to find a cure for this disease. The Nazis proactively infected the powerful prisoners with the disease, and after being infected they tried various drugs on them, Which themselves caused further diseases, and death. The author describes how that same Prof. Schilling was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, and there was no prisoner who entered the laboratory where he performed his horrific experiments, who survived.

The author reveals in great detail the long and difficult process of the experiments, the different blocks that were each used to study a different disease, and the methods of the experiments themselves - many sections are very difficult to read that it is almost unthinkable that these things were done. The author describes that many of the experiments that were done were intended to assist the Nazis as a biological weapon in the war itself, and they became increasingly cruel as the defeat of the Nazis in the war progressed. But there have also been experiments aimed at purely abusing under the guise of researching and discovering unknown phenomena.

The book is accompanied by a map (rare in itself) of the Dachau camp with markings of the exact location of the crematorium, the disinfection area for women and men, the Gestapo offices, buildings that were used for camouflage and more. Photographs of the dark parts of the camp also appear - the torture facilities, the bodies of the dead, the entrance to the gas chambers, etc. At the beginning of the book is a list of names of those who perished in the Dachau camp and the date of death between 1942 and 1945.

Extremely rare. Does not appear at all in WorldCat, does not appear in the National Library.

[1], 67 p. 21 cm. Cover bound upside down. Very good condition.