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Chapter 31

Dear Reader,

Thanks so much for reading WAR GIRL LOTTE.

If you’ve read War Girl Ursula, you probably knew that Lotte was a disaster waiting to happen. Her love of justice and outspokenness would sooner or later get her into trouble.

Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp exclusively for women (although in 1941 a small section for men was added), and at the same time it is the most forgotten camp in history, since it was “only” a concentration camp, meant to punish the inmates, not a death camp like Auschwitz or Treblinka. It was also one of the few camps, where the majority of the inmates wasn’t Jewish, for the simple reason that Jews were sent to Auschwitz to be gassed.

“Ravensbrück was an abomination that the world has resolved to forget.” (Francois Mauriac).

“Ravensbrück was an abomination that the world has resolved to forget.” “Ravensbrück was an abomination that the world has resolved to forget.War Girl Lotte wants to help remember the unfortunate women who were forced to live and die there.

Unfortunately the heinous medical experiments on the Króliki, or rabbits, 86 mostly Polish women, did really happen. Dr. Karl Gebhardt, who was not only Chief surgeon in the SS, but also Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician, oversaw these horrific experiments that happened in Ravensbrück from July 1942 to August 1943.

KrólikiI did bend the timeline slightly to extend the medical experiments to the end of 1943 when Lotte’s story takes place.

You can read more here: h***:://ahrp.orgavensbruck-young-girls-subjected-to-grotesque-medical-atrocities/

Another true event that I used for my storyline was the typhus vaccine. Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski, a Polish physician, managed to save 8,000 Jews from being deported to one of the concentration camps. His trick was to inject them with dead typhus cells (a vaccine), that would make them immune to the sickness, but when a blood sample was taken, they would test positive for the dreaded disease.

The Nazis were deathly afraid of an epidemic of typhus fever (transmitted by lice), because it was difficult to contain and had killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians during WW1. Rather than risk being contaminated while handling the transport to extermination camps, they preferred to quarantine the infected and let the disease do their ghastly work.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/polish-doctor-created-fake-typhus-epidemic-saved-8000-jews-wwii-xb.html