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583008
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b412227
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| Main Entry
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Allen, Arthur,1959-
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| Title & Author
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The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl : : how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis /\ Arthur Allen
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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viii, 384 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780393081015
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: 039308101X
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index
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| Contents
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Lice, war, typhus, madness -- City on the edge of time -- The louse feeders -- The Nazi doctors and the shape of things to come -- War and epidemics -- Parasites -- The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Wiegl [sic] -- Armies of winter -- The terrifying clinic of Dr. Ding -- "Paradise" at Auschwitz -- Buchenwald : rabbit stew and fake vaccine -- Imperfect justice
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The story of "Jewish prisoner-scientists in Buchenwald who made a vaccine against ... typhus. Their untold secret: they provided the real vaccine to camp inmates but a fake one to German troops at the eastern front"--Dust jacket back
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Describes the true story of how the eccentric Polish scientist tasked by the Nazis to create a typhus vaccine hid the intelligentsia from the Gestapo by hiring them to work in his laboratory
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Weigl, Rudolf,1883-1957.
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Fleck, Ludwik,1896-1961.
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Typhus fever-- Poland-- History.
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Scientists-- Poland, Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Underground movements-- Poland.
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Anti-Nazi movement-- Poland.
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How two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
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