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How four female Nazi death camp prisoners exposed evil experiments through coded letters using urine

The Nazi doctors would puncture the women with shards of unbroken glass, to deliberately infect them

FOUR brave Nazi death camp prisoners exposed the evil experiments they were subjected to using coded letters filled with urine.

Krystyna Czyz, Wanda Wijtasik, Janina Iwaska, and her sister Krystyna Iwaska were part of 74 "test rabbits" who endured twisted medical tests in the Ravensbruck concentration camp.

 Krystyna Czyz, from Poland, was taken to the camp when she was 15 years old
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Krystyna Czyz, from Poland, was taken to the camp when she was 15 years oldCredit: www.elizabethwein.com
 The letters sent from the Ravensbrueck camp, contained hidden information written with urine
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The letters sent from the Ravensbrueck camp, contained hidden information written with urine
 Karl Gebhardt, Gruppenfuhrer in the SS and General Lieutenant in the Waffen SS was also the personal physician to Himmlerm led the camp
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Karl Gebhardt, Gruppenfuhrer in the SS and General Lieutenant in the Waffen SS was also the personal physician to Himmlerm led the campCredit: Corbis - Getty

Physicians including Karl Gebhardt, the personal doctor to SS leader Heinrich Himmler camp in northern Germany who led the camp, would drag the inmates into their laboratories.

The Nazi doctors would puncture the women with shards of unbroken glass, in a bid to give them an infection.

Ms Czyz was just 15 years old when her hometown of Lublin was invaded by the Nazi's in September 1939.

After her family were ferociously interrogated, she was taken to the lab along with dozens of other women.

'TEST RABBITS'

During their time, they were only allowed to send one letter to their families each month, and officials would monitor what was within them.

But between 1943 and 1944 the women became fed up and sent 27 letters to their families, to highlight the abuse they were enduring.

The notes, revealed in book, , by Dr David Gill, were filled with clues and hints, and also included urine, to stop it being decoded.

Historians from Lund University said:

According to historians from Lund University, it said: "Five female Polish political inmates have escaped.

"We are preparing a new escape. "

After they exposed the sickening abuse, all women escaped and survived the final stages of the war.

Krystyna went on to become an academic, Wanda became a psychiatrist, Janina became a journalist and her younger sister Krystyna became a doctor.

 Wanda Wojtasik , one of the four brave women who exposed the sickening experiments
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Wanda Wojtasik , one of the four brave women who exposed the sickening experimentsCredit: www.elizabethwein.com
 Janina Iwaska and her sister Krystyna met Krystyna Czyz and Wanda Wojtasik at the camp and were among 74 women to be experimented on by Nazi doctors
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Janina Iwaska and her sister Krystyna met Krystyna Czyz and Wanda Wojtasik at the camp and were among 74 women to be experimented on by Nazi doctorsCredit: www.elizabethwein.com
 Olga Smirnova, 90, from Russia, survivor of the former Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrueck
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Olga Smirnova, 90, from Russia, survivor of the former Nazi concentration camp RavensbrueckCredit: Getty - Contributor
 Soviet documentary filmmaker Roman Karmen's film about the liberation of the Nazi labour camp at Königsberg in der Neumark
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Soviet documentary filmmaker Roman Karmen's film about the liberation of the Nazi labour camp at Königsberg in der NeumarkCredit: Getty - Contributor


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