This was written several days ago but I loss it in trying to paste it on my blog site. So I’ll rewrite it again.
Several days ago, actually almost a month ago I had read an interesting article in the Chicago Tribune about a man with others saved 5000 people in Poland during World War II.
“Dr Eugene Lasowski held disease-wary Nazis at bay and saved hundred of his Polish countrymen-Jews and Gentiles alike-from slave labor and death by creating a fake typhus epidemic in a dozen villages during World War II.”
‘A fellow doctor in Poland, Stanislaw Matulewicz, had discovered that an injection of a particular bacterial strain would cause the person receiving it to test positive for typhus and suffer no ill effect.’
When blood samples were given to the Germans they were afraid of an epidemic thus they quarantine the area which had about 8,000 people.
Another story of heroics:
Le Chambon a small Protestant French village in southern France saved more the 5,000 Jews, in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Great reading in the book by Philip P. Hallie, LEST INNOCENT BLOOD BE SHED.
I’d say that was a very clever Doctor . Thank you for the interesting post.