Dr. Josef Mengele's Medical Experiments
Contrary to many peoples’ beliefs, Dr. Josef Mengele’s cruelty and mutilation to Jews and Romas was necessary. During 1943 and 1945, a period already infamous for European mass killing, known today as a holocaust, and World War II, many humans taken prisoner were used as guinea pigs in experiments. One question remains from that time frame: What was Dr. Josef Mengele trying to prove or discover using information from his medical-based experiments? The gruesome knowledge derived from Dr. Josef Mengele’s experiments was clearly demonstrated by his discovery of: the numerous, sickening ways to revive human entities, the medical experiments conducted to help Nazi soldiers, and his curiosity to unearth the mystery of genetics. Dr. Josef Mengele
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Testes, ovaries, and uteri were carefully examined to determine if radiation was a sufficient way to sterilize (Lifton 281, 282, 283). Due to battle-wound caused injuries, many German soldiers lost their limbs and function of nerves in those limbs. In response, arms and joints were amputated then transplanted from one prisoner to another (Peter 4). No reports of success were ever found. Sections of bone, muscle, and nerve were removed from inmates to study their respective regeneration. As a result, the victims suffered pain, mutilation, and permanent disability. Doctors also searched for ways to immunize and treat cases of malaria (Bülow 2). Unwilling participants were either directly infected by mosquitoes or they were injected with an extract from a disease-ridden mosquito’s mucous glands. To fully understand how to treat infected, battle-caused wounds, prisoners were deliberately wounded. Then the wounds were contaminated by mustard gas. Many died, others that survived suffered immense pain and injuries. Not only did they use mustard gas to infect the wounds, but they also used streptococcus, tetanus, and gas gangrene (Peter 2). The wounds were inflamed with ground glass and wood shavings. Blood vessels were tied off at each side of the wound to replicate battle wounds patched in the heat of combat (Peter 3). There were some experiments that had more to do with scientific curiosity than that of battle-related research. According to leftover records, at least 300 female inmates were strapped to a table while Dr. Carl Clauberg operated on them. He later jeered at them; saying how he had “injected animal sperm into their uteri” and that there were “monsters growing in their wombs” but this fact was never actually proved (Peter 4). Some inmates were administered poison through
Testes, ovaries, and uteri were carefully examined to determine if radiation was a sufficient way to sterilize (Lifton 281, 282, 283). Due to battle-wound caused injuries, many German soldiers lost their limbs and function of nerves in those limbs. In response, arms and joints were amputated then transplanted from one prisoner to another (Peter 4). No reports of success were ever found. Sections of bone, muscle, and nerve were removed from inmates to study their respective regeneration. As a result, the victims suffered pain, mutilation, and permanent disability. Doctors also searched for ways to immunize and treat cases of malaria (Bülow 2). Unwilling participants were either directly infected by mosquitoes or they were injected with an extract from a disease-ridden mosquito’s mucous glands. To fully understand how to treat infected, battle-caused wounds, prisoners were deliberately wounded. Then the wounds were contaminated by mustard gas. Many died, others that survived suffered immense pain and injuries. Not only did they use mustard gas to infect the wounds, but they also used streptococcus, tetanus, and gas gangrene (Peter 2). The wounds were inflamed with ground glass and wood shavings. Blood vessels were tied off at each side of the wound to replicate battle wounds patched in the heat of combat (Peter 3). There were some experiments that had more to do with scientific curiosity than that of battle-related research. According to leftover records, at least 300 female inmates were strapped to a table while Dr. Carl Clauberg operated on them. He later jeered at them; saying how he had “injected animal sperm into their uteri” and that there were “monsters growing in their wombs” but this fact was never actually proved (Peter 4). Some inmates were administered poison through