Hitler backed the experiments on concentration camp prisoners, saying they ‘ought not to remain completely unaffected by the war while German soldiers are being subjected to almost unbearable strain and our native land, women and children, are being engulfed under a rain of incendiary bombs’. *2 Pressure to find a miracle drug increased when the Allies started dropping leaflets over German lines, announcing that their soldiers were being treated with sulphonamides and penicillin.
