The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

By Arthur Allen

Subjects: Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Typhus fever, Biography, Underground movements, Scientists, biography, Dissent and Disputes, Scientists, Anti-nazi movement, War Underground movements, New York Times bestseller, Holocaust, World War II, Histoire, World War, 1939-1945, Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne, Poland, biography, Typhus exanthématique, Antinazisme, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation, National Socialism, National socialism and medicine, World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, poland, History, Jewish physicians, nyt:science=2014-08-10, Anti-Nazi movement, Mouvements de résistance

Description: 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.