How a Jewish Doctor Duped the Nazis
[Politico] Thus began one of the most effective but least-known deceptions of World War II, one that is wondrously thick with irony:
Irony? Ooooooooo! My favorite!
For 16 months, working under the noses of his clueless Nazi overseers--in particular Ding-Schuler, whom Fleck described as a "dummkopf"--a Jewish doctor managed to send fake typhus vaccine to the Nazi soldiers at the front, even as he provided the real thing to inoculate his fellow condemned Jews in a concentration camp.
Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-07-24 |