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A prisoner in a compression chamber loses consciousness before dying during a medical experiment simulating high altitudes. [LCID: 78621]
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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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