ABSTRACT
The story of Wassilij Kowaltschuk is one where developments in archival access and the study of surviving documentation have afforded a rare insight into the experience of a Soviet prisoner subjected to the Nazi human experimentation programme. This chapter offers focused "micro-study" approach, framing the experience of Kowaltschuk and his companions through the parameters of experimentation undertaken by Sigmund Rascher. Rascher was prolific and unceasing in his choice of Soviet prisoners for his experiment series: Kowaltschuk was one of many who ended up in the medical dominion he managed to establish at Dachau. More efforts to redress the imbalance have seen a greater focus on the victims themselves; but the experience of Soviet victims has been absent from the literature at any stage in the development of scholarship. The chapter demonstrates that "Russian" within the sphere of Rascher's influence was particularly dangerous as experiments with their roots in issues associated in the Eastern Campaign began to gain importance.
