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A false typhus epidemic invented to fight against Nazism

2020-02-24T11:42:11.762Z


MEDICAL HISTORY - Thanks to two ingenious Polish doctors, 8,000 people avoided deportation.


There are doctors who tell the naked truth to the sick. Others who hide it. And still others, who simulate nonexistent diseases to save their patients…

1942, south-eastern Poland. Freshly installed in the small town of Rozwadow, Dr. Eugene Lazowski knows what Germany fears of typhus: the population there is poorly immunized against the disease, an epidemic would be a disaster. However the Nazis are not unaware that plague, typhus or cholera can decide the outcome of the wars. The disease is therefore closely monitored.

Read also: A Polish village saved from the Nazis by a false epidemic

A friend of the young doctor, Dr Stasiek Matulewicz, has a double secret: not only does he know how to carry out the diagnostic test for typhus, but above all he discovered that if the healthy bacteria are injected into a healthy person disease previously deactivated, the patient does not fall ill… but his blood will be tested positive!

We could create a false typhus epidemic, and prevent the Germans from arresting and deporting the men from the Rozwadow sector

Dr. Eugene Lazowski

The two doctors then cross the path of a 35-year-old man, deported to a German labor camp and returned

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Source: lefigaro

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