Human Experimentation In Nazi Germany

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

During the holocaust prisoners of concentration camps were faced with evil, torture and death every day. Some of the prisoners in these camps were selected for Nazi medical experiments. Nazi doctors performed several different human experiments on prisoners throughout the Holocaust. A specifically horrific experiment was the twin experiments. This experiment was performed by Dr. Joseph Mengele and several of his assistants in Auschwitz. He is known for performing some of the most inhumane experiments during the holocaust.

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

The horrible Nazi doctors experimented on Jews by freezing them, then trying to revitalize them. They were trying to find the best way to revive German Pilots after they jumped into icy water. They didn’t want to experiment on the pilots themselves and have them die, so they experimented on terrified, starving children. They would either put them outside naked in freezing cold weather, or put them in an icy tank

The freezing and hypothermia experiments were tested upon males to test the conditions of the warriors suffered out in the fields. Tons of German soldiers died of freezing temperatures or were paralyzed by cold injuries. They only used healthy men in these experiments, though, because the week men would not be equal to the soldiers.

During the Holocaust the Jews were tortured and kill. But were the benefits of science justified for the jewish. Nazi doctors conducted almost as many as 30 different types of experiments on prisoners that were in the concentration camps. You will also find out Hitler’s views on the experiments. And also why they did this.

The Holocaust in World War II is one the many cases of genocide. Millions of people were killed, or injured during the war. People were held in places called concentration camps. In the camps, people were dehumanized. They were treated like animals, and hurt. Sometimes they were even put through unethical treatments and medical experiments. Medical experiments are often talked about during times of war, as most of the time they are unethical, and a crime against humanity, as in the case of the experiments during the Holocaust. The medical experiments, and the trials that followed were the first trials for the crimes against humanity. The medical experiments of the Holocaust were a horrendous crime against humanity because they needlessly slaughtered

Millions of people lost their lives in the holocaust, a portion of them dying at the hands of corrupt doctors. During the holocaust, over 200 doctors stationed at various concentration camps performed violent, inhumane medical experiments that took hundreds of lives.(United) Experiments were done to further the Nazi beliefs, as well as the performing doctor's own career. For example, experiments benifiting soldiers, and genetic experiments supporting the government's views increased their ranking in Nazi society and allowed the physican special treatment. Similarly, information learned about diseases and medicines could be sold to pharmecutical companies for a profit. (www.auschwitz.org) Consequentally, many of the doctors only cared about

Over one million people lost their lives in this one area (“Auschwitz” 2). The high amount of executions are chilling and alarming. A disrobing site, a gas chamber, and a crematorium were created in the death camp (Holocaust Encyclopedia 1). These three aspects assisted into making the massacre occur. After the victims were dead, Nazis proceeded in burning the bodies into ashes. Moreover, several people faced severe torture before even being exterminated. Schutzstaffel specialists, otherwise known as the heinous SS, conducted pseudo-scientific research and experimentation on numerous people. Humans of all ages, from young children to adults, suffered under these circumstances. SS specialists performed painful and traumatic medical experiments on dwarfs, twins, and young children (Holocaust Encyclopedia 2). All of the listed people, were tortured and belittled for simply being the way they were. It was as if these people were puppets and the Schutzstaffel enjoyed tugging on their strings. As for grown men and women, adults were forced to undertake sterilizations and castrations in order to cooperate with the fake research (Holocaust Encyclopedia 2). The

Out of all these ways that people died in the concentration camps, the terrible medical experiments of the Nazi doctors and scientists have to had been the worst. The doctors and scientists oversaw and ran dozens of different types of experiments on camp prisoners during the war. All of them were cruel, deadly, and just plain wrong. These experiments were mainly to benefit the Nazi army and keep them alive, to answer questions concerning medicine, and to recognize the mental, physical, and genetic differences between different types of people while proving the Nazi beliefs (“Nazi Medical

Freezing Experiments: Prisoner was put in ice freezing water, often tell they would shiver themselves to death. He did this to see how long German pilots shot down in the

Experiments were carried out by the Nazi’s to start an advancement in German medicine compared to the rest of the world. Tons of medical and scientific testing was done in the concentration camps to prisoners with no consent of the patients (“Nazi Medical Experiment…”). The experiments so harmful, that there was nearly no chance of survival except for a few. It led some to disability, mutation, and most likely death.

The Nuremberg Doctor’s trial of 1946 involves human experimentation performed by the Nazi doctors. These physicians were accused of conducting torturous “experiments” with concentration camp inmates. During these studies, physicians conducted treatments that were not permitted and caused severe injuries to the participants, and in some cases, participants died as a result of this. Prisoners were left to freeze to study more on hypothermia. Later, during December 9th, 1946 to August 20th, 1947 representatives establish a Nuremberg trial to prosecuted these doctors for the atrocities that they committed and 23 out 15 were found guilty. As a result, the Nuremberg code was created to

Doctor Sigmund Rascher was the one overseeing this particular experiment, he mainly conducted the experiments at Dachau (Holocaust on Trial http://www.pbs.org). He used over 300 hundred people in his experiments, all of them prisoners in the concentration camps and all of them young, strong Jews and/or Russians(Jewish Law Articles http://www.jlaw.com) . He had two parts to his experiment, how long it took to freeze to death, and what the best way to revive a person was (Remember.org http://remember.org/educate/medexp). To freeze a person, they were either left outside, naked, or submerged in a vat of freezing ice water, also naked (Remember.org http://remember.org/educate/medexp). The water was the fastest way of

“I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity: the health of my patient will be my first consideration”. (Modern Hippocratic Oath) The Nazi doctors did a broad range of awful experiments. The Nazi doctors’ medical research for genetic and military purposes were monstrous and barbaric.