The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis (55 page)
Authors: Arthur Allen
Fleck’s rise
:
“Ludwig Fleck und die innere Emigration,” in
Emigrantenschicksale: Einfluss der jüdischen Emigranten auf Sozialpolitik und Wissenschaft in den Aufnahmeländern
, ed. Albrecht Scholz and Caris-Petra Heidel (Frankfurt: Mabuse, 2004), 351; Plonka-Syroka, personal communication with author, May 2013.
Intriguingly, this deal
:
Weindling,
Epidemics
, 333–34.
It is not clear whether Weigl
:
Harvard University Archives, Papers of Hans Zinsser, box 2, folder 61.
In February 1940
:
M. Sahaydakovskyy and S. Hnatush; “Professor Rudolf Weigl: A Life Dedicated to Science and Humanity” (publication information unknown), accessed at www.lwow.com.pl/weigl/Weigl-ukr.html; Szybalski, interview with author; Danuta Nespiak, “Profesor Rudolf Weigl był Polakiem z wyboru” (Professor Rudolf Weigl—Pole by choice), in
Semper Fidelis
(Wrocław: Towarzystwo Miło
ników Lwowa i Kresów Południowo Wschodnich, 1994).
During the 22 months
:
Sahaydakovskyy and Hnatush, “Life Dedicated.”
“
Never join the party
”:
Szybalski, interview with author.
A Ukrainian professor
:
Stefan Kry
ski, “Kartki 36,” in
Kartki ze wspomnie
starego profesora
, accessed at lwow.home.pl/weigl/krynski.html.
The Soviet scientist
:
Szybalski interview; Sahaydakovskyy and Hnatush, “Life Dedicated.”
In the first days
:
Mick,
Kriegserfahrungen
, 443.
“
They had a good sense
”:
Szybalski, interview with author.
He was very sage
:
Wiktor Weigl, “Wspomnienia o moim Ojcu,” in Z
wyci
y
tyfus—Instytut Rudolfa Weigla we Lwowie. Dokumenty i wspomnienia
, ed. Zbigniewa Stuchly (Wrocław: Sudety, 2001), accessed at http://lwow.home.pl/weigl/turek.html.
A November 25, 1939, memorandum
:
Christopher R. Browning, “Genocide and Public Health: German Doctors and Polish Jews, 1939–1941,” in
The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 146.
As the historian Christopher
:
Ibid., 149.
Jost Walbaum, a longtime
:
Ibid., 149–53.
By the time the Nazis
:
Friedrich Hansen,
Biologische Kriegsführung im Dritten Reich
(Frankfurt: Campus, 1993), 93–95.
The German occupation doctors
:
Browning, “Genocide,” 146–52.
In 1941, the German
:
Janina Hera, “
Konkurs na sztukantytyfusow
,” Pamitnik teatralny
46 (1997): 399–409.
The German medical contribution
:
Kampf den Seuchen: Deutscher Ärzte-Einsatz im Osten
(Kraków: Deutscher Osten, 1941).
One writer, Joseph Ruppert
:
Joseph Ruppert, “Die Seucheninsel Polen,” in
Kampf
, 25–26.
A Dr. Werner Kroll wrote
:
Werner Kroll, “Die Gesundheitskammer im Generalgouvernement,” in
Kampf
, 113.
What was needed
:
Kroll, “Jüdische ‘Wunderdoktoren’ Entlarvt!,” in
Kampf
, 125–27.
By cramming half a million
:
Hirszfeld,
One Life
, 211.
The overcrowded, underfed
:
Marcel Reich-Ranicki,
Mein Leben
(Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999), 212.
“
There were even lice
”:
Władysław Szpilman,
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945
(New York: Picador, 1999). See also Charles G. Roland,
Courage under Siege
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 121–53.
Over the next 18 months
:
Tomasz Cieszyski, “Dzieło Rudolfa Weigla ofiarowane ludzkoci i Polsce” (Rudolf Weigl’s work for Poland and humanity), 1994, accessed at http://www.lwow.home.pl/weigl/cieszynski.html.