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    mankind” and that is why the type of medicine performed by the doctors of Nazi Germany was so shocking, egregious and immoral that it violated the trust placed in them by humanity. The Holocaust seems so far removed from our reality today, and it may be hard for people to imagine the horrors inflicted by such doctors as Joseph Mengele and others in the name of “medical advancement”. There is no doubt that these experimentations are viewed as barbaric, unethical and thinly veiled under the guise of science

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    painful experience for them. Thousands died as a result. Each of the doctors that were performing these unethical experimentations were put on trial for what they had done after the war was over. This lead to new regulations and ethical boundaries in the medical field. Most of the doctors were trying to cure diseases and solve some kind of problem. Some of the doctors did the experimentations because they took joy from it or they were trying to prove the superiority of German people over others. Some

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    who believed him were called Nazis.He also did not like the Jews saying they were “corrupting the German race” (Jones,67). Nazis would take prisoners of war, or Jews, or anyone he needed for experiments, and put them into concentration camps. In these concentration camps the Nazi would do many things to the prisoners to torture, kill, or learn to help their cause. The Nazis conducted cruel experiments on prisoners to help their cause. Some of these experiments included tests involving freezing temperatures

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    War including the Holocaust Experimental Data which was considered as a human normative ethics based on experimental research during the nineteen century. Researches investigate the set of questions arise in the Jew’s community during and aftermath of the holocaust which allowed them to know with absolute and scientific certainty what was happening inside Nuremberg concentration camps. Most of them prove that horrific Nazi human experiments were conducted on Jewish prisoners against their will, resulting

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    to the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals that were 'contaminating' the German race. This is the ideology behind the medical experimentation in sanitation and hygiene, that led to the gas chambers and euthanasia...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

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    Human Inhumanity

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    Human experimentation is subjecting living beings to science experiments that can sometimes be painful, cruel, deadly and risky. The human beings used in these experiments have changed the lives of billions with advancements made in the medical field, over the last two centuries, some of the subjects used in the experiments have been compensated for the physical and emotional damage done (Veracity,2). However, many have lost their lives due to the experiments. By examining the cruelty and inhumanity

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    Throughout WW2, the Nazis conducted many experiments on prisoners in the concentration camps. The experiments were extremely brutal to the persons being experimented on. Many of these doctors used their authority to justify the means of their “research”. There are various different experiments that were conducted for supposed benefit to the German army. Experiments conducted by Nazis were inhumane and traumatizing to those lucky enough to survive. Although the experiments done on humans during WW2 were

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    Have you ever heard of the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, or even the medical experiments of the SS? Well, get ready to learn about it. Adolf Hitler was an anticommunist that fought for Germany in WWI. He was the leader of the Nazi’s. The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler 's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. The medical experiments of the SS were experiments performed by doctors on prisoners. During World War II, a number of German

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    Dr Klein: ‘the Jew is the gangrenous appendix in the body of mankind’ (The Nazi Doctors: Robert Jay Lifton) Hello ladies and gentleman, What does the Holocaust mean to you? Some would say mass genocide, the extermination of the Jews or some may not be able to define it at all. The Holocaust – one of mankind’s worst atrocities committed in the past one hundred years. Full of the thirteen years of prejudice and mistreatment that was endorsed by the fascist ideals. Over twelve million people perished

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    Causes Of The Holocaust

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    A tear, that is, a salty drop of liquid secreted from the eye. Leaves a trail of sorrows. Burning grief. Desolation. From 1933 until 1945, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Germany kill millions of European Jews, in the Holocaust. These acts are committed because of Hitler’s pure hatred for the Jewish, viewing them as a race rather than a religion. He blames them for all of Germany’s troubles and unsuccessful outcome of World War I. And in order to enforce his beliefs, Hitler creates a ‘Final Solution’

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