Dr. Horst Schumann Research Paper

Many brutal atrocities were committed during the Holocaust by the Nazi party against anyone they viewed as “unpure”. This included the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Afro-Germans, Slavs, communists, the handicapped, and the mentally disabled. These groups were targeted, stripped away of their rights and citizenship, and then sent to concentration camps. Some of these camps were death camps; created for the sole purpose to annihilate these groups of people, mainly the Jews. At these camps, the prisoners were tortured, starved, brutally killed, and experimented on. In this research paper, I am going to discuss some of the medical experiments that were

Medical experiments were done on many of the prisoners of the concentration camp, but mostly on twins, and dwarfs. The main medical doctor that conducted these experiments was Joseph Mengel who was also known as the "Angle of death." The main types of medical experiments dealt with freezing/hypothermia, genetics, infectious diseases, interrogation, torture, genocide, high altitude, pharmacological, sterilization, surgery, and traumatic injuries.

He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945(Ewers). The camp inmates would call him the “Angel of Death”(McKale). They would call him this because he would do experiments on people and kill them. He personally selected over 400,000 prisoners to die in gas chambers(McKale). Josef used his service as a Nazi doctor as a springboard toward an academic career(Koren). He would pluck out hunchbacks, pinheads, hermaphrodites, giants, dwarfs, obese men, and corpulent women but spared Germans(Koren)(“Life”). He would traumatize prisoners and show them his wall of eyeballs(“Life”). He was a ruthless, cold blooded

The chapter on Nazi medical experiments in Chalmers’ book is one of the most fascinating chapters because it examines the different types of techniques that the Nazi’s used to sterilize men and women. Chalmers explains that women were particularly subject to medical experiments because the Nazis were obsessed with destroying inferior races and wanted to perfect the art of sterilization so no more undesirable elements would be born (Ibid 123). However, both men and women were subject to Nazi medical experiments like medical injections, X-Rays, and chemicals, which resulted in burnt skin, abnormalities, and death. Among these experimentations many chemical companies, doctors, and University professors supported the experiments being done on

Many claim that doctors were only advancing science, and others claim the horrid acts that were committed were done because of the hatred towards the Jewish people. Regardless of which fact is inevitably true, both situations caused cruel and inhuman treatment to the Jews, and ultimately led to their deaths at the camps. A civilian doctor named Carl Clauberg was famous for his sterilization experiments. The procedure involved injections to the cervix to destroy the fallopian tubes, and then often the victims were gassed and left for dead (Winik 9). When the Jews arrived on transports, Nazi doctors immediately determined who would be gassed and who would go to a work camp (Winik 8). In Auschwitz, Nazi doctors presided over the murder of most of the one million victims of that camp. “Doctors consulted actively on how best to keep selections running smoothly, on how many people to permit to remain alive to fill the slave labor requirements” … “and on how to burn the enormous numbers of bodies that strained the facilities of the crematoria (Gutman 303). In the book, “Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp,” Yisrael Gutman offers a summary of the events that took place at Auschwitz:

The Nazi Doctors of World War 2 had to face the Doctors’ Trial in Nuremberg, Germany after the war. The reason for the trial is because the Doctors in the Nazi Party had contributed or played a part in genocide while following Hitler. Adolph Hitler was the German politician and leader of the Nazi Party during the years from (1933-1945.) The doctors had performed unreasonable medical experimentations on reluctant concentration camp prisoners.

Some of these camps also had facilities for scientific research, where men like Josef Mengle, also known as "The Angel of Death", performed barbaric medical experiments on twins, dwarfs, and other genetically different people in advancing and breeding the so-called "Aryan" race of perfect Germans for Hitler.

Doctors of the Holocaust For the doctors of the Holocaust killing became the prerequisite for healing. The Nazi doctors at the death camps tortured men, women, and children. The doctors made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, and removed organs and limbs. For a doctor, phenol injections were the most literal example of the entire healing-killing reversal.

During World War II, there were many acts of cruelty done towards people seen as unsuitable or worthless to the Nazis. These people included Jew, homosexuals, gypsies, and the handicapped. In this paper, I'm going to describe the medical experiments that were performed on inmates by Nazi doctors during the Holocaust. These experiments include: the twin experiments, the freezing experiments, the seawater experiments, and the bone grafting and nerve experiments.

The doctors who examined the incoming prisoners and sorted them also worked in these hospitals performing medical research on the ill. This medical research was mostly placing the Jewish prisoners in ice water baths then monitoring them until they died. This research was mostly used to prevent hypothermia if German Pilots ever ended up being stranded in the ocean. Some of the experiments performed by doctors often had no research purpose at all, such as experiments involving eye color changing using chemical droppers and the surgical sewing of children together to create siamese twins. Auschwitz was the largest death camp with 20,000 Jews being killed a day and 39 subcamps.

In the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Natzweiler, more than seven hundred prisoners were subjected to the typhus experiments. Not only did these two camps run experiments for typhus but also for diseases such as yellow fever, smallpox, cholera and many more. The typhus experiments were very repugnant in the way that doctors would kill people just to keep the disease still intact with them. They had prisoners known as ‘passage persons’ who acted like capsules for the diseases. The doctors would use these people to take their blood and inject it in others. “They

all in an effort to rid the German race of it unwanted members. "Medicine and science had played crucial roles both in fostering of Nazi ideology and in implementing the final solution." (Caplan) While medicine and science were being utilized, they had taken on a very different form. They were not treating individuals, but torturing them.

The doctors would cut off limbs and see if the Jew’s could handle what happened to their body. Josef mengele would do the experiments to twins along with many other doctors they were trying to see how twin were made so they could increase the prefect race faster. Even though these were crude experiments they help german know a whole lot more about the human body and what it can handle and what it can't and the almost found out to make twins but they never did.

He would determine who would be sent to the gas chambers and who would become laborers at the camp. Most other doctors during this time viewed the selection process as a horrible job or duty. Many doctors had to get

One of these experiments conducted on prisoners dealt with freezing. The doctors were looking for ways to care for pilots who had to eject into icy water. To do this they put prisoners in tubs of freezing water wearing only aviator suits or nothing at all, and sometimes for up to 5 hours. Other prisoners were forced outside and stripped down to the nude in the freezing weather. Another experiment was infecting prisoners with tuberculosis in an effort to find a cure. German doctors were trying to find if anybody was immune to the disease so they could study them and come up with a cure. However, a doctor by the name of Kurt Heissmeyer directly injected the disease into prisoners at a concentration camp which resulted in the death of at least 200 people. Forcing Gypsies to live off of nothing but sea water was another torturous study conducted on concentration camp prisoners. Hans Eppinger, another German doctor, tried to make seawater consumable. He forced ninety Gypsies to participate in this study. Some victims reportedly licked a recently washed floor just to get some fresh water. All these experiments resulted in either serious bodily harm, or death. Most of the evidence to these experiments was