Ravens Inhumane Research Paper

At these camps, the vast majority of the female population will be deliberately starved to death […] A few of them would be spared, however, for the sake of reproduction. These women would be kept and bred in secret labs”.

Have you ever taken the time to think about what the people of the holocaust went through? There were Jews, German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and deviant people captured and transported to the concentration camps just because the Nazis did not think the were good enough. These people suffered from extensive torment, and neglect throughout the holocaust and in the concentration camps. There was hardly any food and because of that many died. They were also medically experimented on which killed them because there were many medicines tried on them and some were even injected with the disease itself. This paper will cover, medical experiments done on the captured, traveling to reach the concentration camps, and the treatment of the captured people.

“The SS men kept the people fated to die unaware of what awaited them. They were told that they were being sent to the camp, but that they first had to undergo disinfection and bathe. After the victims undressed, they were taken into the gas chamber,

Most known for its unapologetic tendency to murder in cold blood, Auschwitz was adept in its ability to strip a life. Auschwitz-Birkenau’s earliest gas chamber was called “the Little Red House,” and its second gas chamber began working not soon after, called “the Little White House” (Robson 52). Despite this crucial establishment, the gas chambers were not the only ways a prisoner could die in Auschwitz. The “Black Wall” was an execution area used by the SS, an obviously faulty alternative compared to the more efficient gas chambers (Encyclopedia 107). Although a significant amount of prisoners survived longer than others, Auschwitz took a major toll on every one of them. Prisoners who had no will to survive left, their futures crushed violently by the SS, used the electrified fences that held them captive to ensure their long-awaited demise (Learning).

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

Nazi human experiments were a series of medical experiments done on large numbers of prisoners most of them were Jewish and Jewish children were included too from Europe, but there were some other races too such as Romani, Ethnic Poles, Soviet POWs and non-Jewish Germans. Caused by Nazi’s in Germany in the concentration camps in the early 1940s during WWII and the Holocaust. The prisoners did not willingly volunteer usually the experiments ended in death or disfigurement of permanent disability.

In a dramatic propaganda hoax, the International Red Cross was permitted to inspect the Theresienstadt ghetto, the exercise disguised the vile treatment of the Jews. The ghetto underwent a beautification project. A film was produced to prove the benevolent treatment of the Jews. Soon after, the “cast/prisoners” were sent to the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Herbert Lange, the head of euthanasia operations in East Prussia, and a team of SS mandated a contingent of Polish prisoners to begin “renovating and fencing the old villa or Schloss, where the Jews would be undressed and loaded into the waiting gas vans.” The timeframe of Belzec followed the same timeline. The construction of barracks and the gas chamber followed “three SS men came to Belzec in October 1941 and demanded a draft of twenty Polish workers. Work began on November 1,” writes Browning. Regarding Belzac, Evans also notes, “Construction began on 1 November 1941,” and a “similar centre was set up at Chelmno.” He reiterates that both camps were “created for the sole purpose of killing people.” Both Evans and Browning state, the prior experience of their euthanasia personnel was immediately looked to as a solution to the ‘Jewish question’. “After the enforced termination of the T-4 ‘euthanasia’ action on 24 August 1941...its lethal gas technicians became available for redeployment in the east,” indicates Evans. The euthanasia personnel was procurable for carrying out such an extermination task. “Both camps involved the reassignment of personnel formerly involved in the euthanasia program,” points out Browning. He summarizes,“If the

Between September of 1939 to August of 1941 there is a recorded 70,273 people that were killed in mental institutions across Germany. After Aktion T4 was terminated the doctors and people who were a part of it still conducted these horrific acts. In the Nazi eugenics sights the patients that were deemed disabled were killed by carbon monoxide gas. Leading theorists for the Nazi eugenics and racial hygiene Eugen Fischer state that this is the sterilization of the “Rhineland Bastards”. They were black Germans living the

“The way we selected our victims was as follows, Auschwitz Kommandant Höss reported after the war: ‘We had two SS doctors on duty at Auschwitz to examine the incoming transports of prisoners. The prisoners would be marched by one of the doctors who would make spot decisions as they walked by. Those who were fit for work were sent into the camp. Others were sent immediately to the extermination plants. Children of tender years were invariably exterminated since by reason of their youth they were unable to work.’” (Adolf Eichmann - Biography 1).

“Soon again I heard tapping somewhat louder than before,” (Poe, 288). Edgar Allen Poe, an author, wrote a classic poem: The Raven. A man attempting to nap hears tapping, which results in him letting a raven into his room. He connects the raven with a sense of doom, as well as his lost love, Lenore. The raven was only a figment of the narrator's imagination, for it doesn’t behave as a normal bird would.

Apart from the surgeries performed on the pregnant women, Dr. Perl also tended to the wounds the SS gave women’s breasts with their beatings and whips. She also treated and helped other women in the night for other conditions. She did this because she felt helpless without any tools and medicine. She wrote her autobiography, “I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz.” She said that she, “treated patients with my voice, telling them beautiful stories, telling them that one day we would have birthdays again, that one day we would sing

People may think all human experimentation is ethical and happens under supervised, and controlled conditions with the consent of the person. This wasn’t the case in Nazi Germany. The Nazi’s performed some of the most inhumane, disturbing human experiments documented by man. The Nazi’s saw their extermination camps as a prime place for scientific experiments to advance their military and Nazi racial ideology. Prisoners were forced to participate in the experiments and usually died as an effect. If the subject lived, the results often resulted in trauma, disfigurement, or permanent disability. This happened on a large scale, and affected the lives of many. These experiments were typically aimed toward Jews, but some Romani, Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, and disabled Germans were involved in these ruthless experiments. It is important to remember these diabolical acts not because of how awful they were, but the technological and medical advancements they posed. If we don’t acknowledge the suffering these people endured, then I feel that they have died in vain.

The book Doctors under Hitler by Michael H. Kater, offers a lot more than its title suggests. Kater exposes us to a numerical image of the nazification of the German medical community through social, economic, and political views. He guides us through the years before and after Hitler’s regime with chapters full of statistical data, graphs, and tables demonstrating what it was like to be a doctor during this time. When preparing to read this book, I expected to read about a collection of twisted doctors under Hitler’s rule, performing atrocious “medical” experiments. Although this was discussed, the book detailed more on the entire medical

The Schutzstaffel men holding Queenie keep her in check with threats of being sent to one of two concentration camps: Ravensbrück or Natzweiler-Struhof. She writes, "She tells me that if I am lucky I will be sent to a place called Ravensbrück when they are finished with me here. It is a concentration camp solely for women, a labor camp and prison." (113). Ravensbrück was indeed a camp for women - specifically, political prisoners like Queenie, Jewish women, and lesbians. Queenie continues, "If I am not lucky I will be sent to a place called Natzweiler-Struhof. This is a smaller and more specialized concentration camp, the vanishing point for Nacht und Nebel prisoners, who are mostly men. Occasionally women are sent there as live specimens..."