Nazi Human Experiments: "A Jewish prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments
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Nazi Human Experiments: "A Jewish prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments Nazi Human Experiments: "A Jewish prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions simulating those found at 15,000 meters [49,000 ft] in altitude were created in an effort to determine if German pilots might survive at that height." The prisoner falls unconscious (and later dies) from overexposure in a high-altitude chanber in Dachau From March 1942 to August 1942, experiments were conducted at the Dachau concentration camp, for the benefit of the German Air Force, to investigate the limits of human endurance and existence at extremely high altitudes. The experiments were carried out in a low-pressure chamber in which atmospheric conditions at high altitude (up to 68,000 feet) could be duplicated. The experimental subjects were placed in the low-pre...