The men are all at the end of their lives. Nearly 60 years have passed since the experiment ended. They know and they remember, and their memories are precise. In fact, it seems like they've been reliving the long year between the fall of 19 forty four and the fall of19 forty five, ever since.
In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms under the University of Minnesota football stadium. They were part of an experiment none of them would ever forget. What happened in the Department of Physiological Hygiene? Revisionist History uncovers a forgotten box of interviews in the archives of the Library of Congress.
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