Medical experiments on humans in concentration camps.
This book shows the medical experiments that Hitler and Himmler ordered or approved. The author is not a doctor, but a journalist. He searched for and found former inmates who had been experimented on by German doctors, captured doctors who, under the threat of death, had to serve as assistants or specialists to Nazi researchers.
The novel was published in 1862, and in it Turgenev deals with the archetypal relationship between young and old, past and future, old and new values of mid-19th-century Russia.