[FPSPACE] Death in space

[Chris Jones]

JamesOberg@aol.com writes:

  In a message dated 9/21/00 1:38:06 PM Central Daylight Time, clj@emc.com 
  writes: << It should come as no surprise that such experiments were performed 
  in the '40s. You have one guess as to who did these tests...  That's right, 
  the Nazis.  (It
   should also come as no surprise that the experimental subjects were not
   volunteers.) >>
  
  I am surprised. I've heard about the ice-water tests and other ghastly 
  tortures, but what on Earth would the Nazis doctors be doing with vacuum 
  exposure? Are you sure this isn''t a space-urban-legend or a garbled memory?

I got the following by searching for "pressure" on the Nizkor site: 

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/dachau/dachau-004.html

Technically these experiments were conducted at low pressure rather than a
vacuum, but, then, the Nazis didn't have access to the more perfect vacuum of
space.