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Dachau Picture: Prisoner Who Has Been Subjected to Low Pressure Experimentation


(Picture from the KZ Gedenkstatte Dachau, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.)

A prisoner who has been subjected to low pressure experimentation. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, air pressures were created comparable to those found at 15,000 meters in altitude, in an effort to determine how high German pilots could fly and survive. (March - August 1942)

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