Buchenwald: Experiments

Wile: I think this is the famous Block 64, where the experiments took place. What was told me here--to the best of my recollection--was that these people had been injected with Typhus and that if they survived, then their blood was drawn from them and was taken to Berlin and used to inoculate German citizens to prevent them from getting Typhus. All these people, they were telling me--and this was being translated--were dying, because of Typhus, for being inoculated with the Typhus germ to see if they would survive. I think this was the same block that the big tank was in where they were immersing as many as eighteen thousand people. They found one fellow that lived, I think, eighteen minutes and they were pretty impressed with that where the average man was living about ten minutes.

Photo caption (1): No, the Nazis wasn't quite insane for instance some men were allowed to live because they were continually being injected with Typhus to make an immunity plasma for Berlin of course too much of a donation often caused death but there are more Typhus Germans.

Photo caption (2): A living deadman. He won't recover! A day later and some 20,000 men would have been liquidated had it not been for Patton's dough [boys]. Not for Publication

Wile: According to what was told to us, if we'd a been any later the Germans would have machine-gunned 20,000 people in that camp, but because of the rapidity of which the camp was over run, they didn't have time to do that, they just got away with their own lives.