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"Cold water immersion experiment claimed to be at Dachau concentration camp presided over by Professor Holzlohner (left) and Dr Rascher (right). The subject is wearing a Luftwaffe garment. Note the floating blocks of ice."

Source

Taken from: Hanauske-Abel, Hartmut M. "Not a Slippery Slope or Sudden Subversion: German Medicine and National Socialism in 1933." BMJ: British Medical Journal 313(7070): 1453-1463. 7 December 1996.

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To illustrate practices of human experimentation.

Replaceable?

Non-reproducible historic image with no free replacement, illustrating the subject of prisoner abuse with cold water immersion in The Holocaust article. There is no known copyright holder, and the image is used for educational purposes.

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No copyright status noted in the original article. The copyright holder was probably someone working at Dachau, and any copyright which was once held is probably lapsed. But without definite knowledge otherwise it is assumed to be copyrighted, and its use on Wikipedia is no doubt "fair use" for its historical purposes, the lack of an existing market, etc.

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the articles "Nazi human experimentation" and "The Holocaust":

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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current	17:59, 16 July 2006	1,404×940 (259 KB)	Fastfission (Talk \| contribs)	("Cold water immersion experiment at Dachau concentration camp presided over by Professor Holzlohner (left) and Dr Rascher (right). The victim is wearing a Luftwaffe garment. Note the floating blocks of ice." Taken from: Hanauske-Abel, Hartmut M. "Not a S)