The Medical Experiments By The Ss ( Nazi )

The medical experiments of the Holocaust were horrific acts with possible advancements in medicine, that go unnoticed due to current hospitals using ill-effective techniques, the EPA letting phosgene toxins infect workers, and some newspapers and agencies disregarding the use of the advancements. It is widely known, that the Holocaust was a horrible event during World War II, where Nazis would massacre Jews in a variety of ways, ranging from a firing squad to being buried alive. Horrible atrocities that ended in five million, to as many as six million Jewish deaths, among many more prisoners the Germans convicted. However, what is less known is how many of these deaths were used in medical experiments to advance medicine and medical practices.

The art of medicine and curing diseases was not always approached in a scientific way. In fact, many advances occurred between 1919 to 1939, after technological advances allowed scientists to apply the scientific method to medical research. At this time, the ethics of using patients as test subjects either for new medicines or as samples for further testing were not considered. An extreme example of this was the Nazi’s using concentration camp inmates – including children – to run painful and invasive experiments. More modern examples are not so easy to identify as unethical, however. While amputating a leg to develop methods to deal with fractures and war wounds is obviously unethical, harvesting cells to develop a vaccine is not so clear cut, as the disadvantage to the patient is hard to identify. Coming from the various Nazi testing and especially the Nuremberg testing and trials, another code of ethics was developed, called the Nuremberg Code.

Adolf Hitler, born on April 20th 1889, became the leader of Nazi Germany. He used his power to try to eliminate the Jews, known as the non-superior race. Thousands and thousands of people of all ages died under Hitler’s leadership. Mass murder, starvation, abuse in many different degrees, and an overall genocide took place through out Germany during this time period. Many wonder how Hitler could have been so unethical and caused such a tragic time in history to take place. Scientists and psychological experts dig deep in Hitler’s life and past experiences to come up with an explanation of his inhuman leadership during the holocaust. His childhood is where most experts believe his personality stemmed from.

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

“I will remember that there is an art to medicine as well as a science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife and the chemist’s drug.” (Louis Lasagna). However, the doctors of the holocaust didn’t care, and used the victims as guinea pigs for the results. The medical experiments performed during the Holocaust had horrific outcomes for those experimented upon.

After World War I, Adolf Hitler was one of the dictators that arose; which then gained power in Germany in its Great Depression. Hitler rose to power using techniques such as propaganda, censorship, charisma and terror, but that was not all he did. Hitler started his own fascist party in Germany and called it the Nazi Party. Later, Hitler developed anti-semitism, or prejudice against Jews and dehumanized them. He viewed Jews as a separate race not a religion. This caused many changes particularly to the Jews. During World War I the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews caused political, economic, and social changes.

There were a whole lot of experiments there was Dr. Brandt Hitler's personal physician he would do experiments on the disabled and twins like Dr. Mengele also known as the angel of death. Another doctor would cut them and then rub wood or metal

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

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

During World War II, Nazi doctors did many types of experiments on the Jews at concentration camps. The German doctors performed experiments without permission in which the Jews suffered emotionally, physically, and many died. Eventually, the doctors who performed these experiments were prosecuted; however, many Jews suffered and died due to the type of experiments being conducted on them (Tyson).

The essay you will be reading about will contain how Nazi science experiments were inhuman. There will be some experiments you will be reading that actually occurred during WWII.

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

The Nazi can also be known as Ha-Shoah. Adolf Hitler started becoming powerful in Germany. Hitler started a group which he decided to called it (Nazi’s) and he had people join from the German army and some of them were Jew and they went against their own people. He killed the Jews for their race. Hitler had other people hired to kill 6,000,000 jews, some were killed by weapons, but most of them were killed in these camps all throughout Germany. Hitler took everything from the Jews and destroyed their lives.

The Nuremberg Doctors Trial of 1946 is the preeminent case recognizing the importance of medical ethics and human rights specifically about human research subjects. The defendants in the trials include Nazi leadership, physicians, and investigators prosecuted for conducting unethical and inhumane medical experiments on civilians and prisoners of war resulting in extreme pain, suffering, permanent injury and often death. The Nuremberg Code, borne of these trials, establishes ethical guidelines for human experimentation to ensure the rights of subjects in medical research. Herein, this writer will first identify and discuss ethical dilemmas presented in the Nuremberg case followed by three

During the reign of Adolf Hitler, Europe was taken into a state of chaos. German physicians were called to extermination camps. The reason was straightforward to them: They were called to camps to try to unlock the secrets of genetic engineering, hands stretched out in reach to get closer to creating the Aryan, or superior race. The use of Nazi eugenics was supported by the German government in order to create the Aryan and to exterminate those who did not fit into their criteria. They promoted the use of biology to accomplish their goals of racial purity, a core concept in the Nazi ideology. Physicians were attracted to the scientific ideology and aided in the establishment of National Socialist Physicians’ League in 1929 to “purify the German medical community of ‘Jewish Bolshevism.’” (Grodin 371). However, today it seems they were there solely to kill camp inmates as painfully as possible. These acts of torture were characterized by several shocking features: victims were forced to become subjects in very dangerous studies against their will; nearly all subjects endured incredible suffering, mutilation, and unimaginable pain, and the experiments often were deliberately designed to terminate in a fatal outcome. The accounts for the medical exploits are numerous, ranging from conjoined twins experiments to phenol injections, high altitude experiments, tests of resurrections by placing humans in extreme temperatures, and artificial insemination. The Nazi medical experiments