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A Hero Of Heroes
Eugene Lazowski, MD, spent three years of his life with a cyanide
pill at the ready. Better to take his own life than to die at the
hands of the Germans if they discovered he was saving the lives of
fellow Polish villagers during World War II.
"I was afraid, but I controlled it," Dr. Lazowski said.
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The Doctor Created A Strain Of Placebo Typhus
he Polish doctor and a colleague hatched a plan to inject healthy
villagers with a killed strain of typhus bacteria, which made
residents test positive for typhus.
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Jews Faked Typhus
Over three years, the fake typhus epidemic saved about 8,000
villagers from camps where scores of their countrymen would die.
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Nazis Wanted To Send Polish Jews To Auschwitz
Germans, who occupied Poland at the time, feared infection and an
outbreak among soldiers, so they quarantined 12 villages instead of
shipping villagers to German labor or death camps.
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Gestapo Was Suspicious Of 'Das Doktor'The local head of the
Gestapo suspected the doctor, but Nazi soldiers looked the other way
because the Jewish doctor treated the soldiers for their venereal
diseases, and never told their commanders.
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Gestapo Chief Sends
In Inspection Team
The local Gestapo chief dispatched a
group of Nazi doctors show up to inspect the villages, but
Lazowski was ready for them.
He lined up the oldest, sickest and most unhealthy-looking people he could
find, all of whom had been injected with the fake typhus. He had them wait
in filthy huts.
Then he had the town put on a big party for the visitors. The vodka flowed,
music played and many kielbasa sausages were consumed.
To Lazowski's relief, the young doctors rushed through the exams and only
took blood samples from a few subjects without checking for actual symptoms
of the disease.
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