Defended By Disease
The Morbid Curiosity Podcast
Hallie Lloyd
4.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that disease has been used to help people? In this episode we're going to discuss several cases in which disease, or disease research, was utilized to protect people from great harm. All of these cases occurred during World War 2, and were carried out by physicians doing their best to protect those targeted by The Third Reich, also known as the Nazis.
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| 1:05.5 | conditions apply. This episode contains brief discussions of genocide, racism, prejudice, and imprisonment. |
| 1:14.4 | If any of these topics are triggers for you, this may be a good episode to skip. |
| 1:19.9 | Also, apologies for mispronouncing any of the Polish words in this episode. |
| 1:24.7 | I am not a speaker of Polish, and I did my best to research how to pronounce them, |
| 1:29.5 | but they still might not be quite right. Special thanks to Anna, who helped me with the Polish |
| 1:34.6 | pronunciations in this episode. I hope I did you proud. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved. |
| 1:56.9 | Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages. |
| 2:05.7 | I am one of those people. |
| 2:08.1 | My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. |
| 2:27.3 | Thank you. The word disease has negative connotations. It's an old French word that combines desks and ease. |
| 2:32.3 | Dess meaning a lack of and ease meaning easy or convenient. It literally |
| 2:38.0 | means not easy, not convenient. And anyone experiencing a disease, be it acute or chronic, knows how |
| 2:46.2 | hard and inconvenient it is. But did you know that there are cases in history where a disease has helped |
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