A person with light-skin tone stands waist deep in a metal tub filled with ice water. They are wearing a head covering, a flotation device, and other materials that look to be attached to them. Two doctors with light skin tone stand to the left, checking instruments near and on the individual in the tub.
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A victim of a Nazi medical experiment

A victim of a Nazi medical experiment is immersed in icy water at the Dachau concentration camp. SS doctor Sigmund Rascher oversees the experiment. Germany, 1942.


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