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Sasi Priyadharshini shared this 'hilarious but effective military tactic' on Quora. What a great idea!!

The fake epidemic tactic!

World War II. People were fighting with artillery and ammunition. This one man single handedly drove away the Nazis without a single weapon and saved the lives of some 8,000 people. Eugene Lazowski, as the name goes, was a military doctor in the Polish army. The German army had quite a thirst to invade and conquer the Polish town of Rozwadow. That's when our hero rang the much needed awareness alarm for an epidemic that did not exist in the first place. Lazowski's friend had just made a scientific discovery that if a person is injected with a dead strain of typhus vaccine, he would test positive for typhus without actually being infected. Lazowski vaccinated a considerable number of the inhabitants of Rozwadow and presented their blood samples to the German government. The Nazis were literally taken aback by the threat of a rapidly spreading epidemic and immediately ordered strict quarantine to be observed within Rozwadow. Neither were the inhabitants of Rozwadow allowed to leave the town nor were the Nazis allowed to enter the town. This enabled an estimated 8,000 people to sleep peacefully under the blanket of a fake epidemic. And that's the story of an unsung hero who risked his life to execute a hilarious yet effective military tactic.