An individual with light skin tone  in a striped uniform hangs by a chest harness with various medical instruments attached in a mostly clear chamber. Their head has fallen forward.
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Medical experiment at Dachau

A prisoner in a compression chamber loses consciousness before dying during a medical experiment simulating high altitudes. Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 1942.


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