Experiments During The Holocaust

During World War II, a number of German physicians conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent. Doctors are looked at as the saviors of mankind, the healers, and caretakers of our utter existence. Even dating back to ancient civilizations, as they revered to doctors as having “special power” to protect life. The practice of medicine by the Nazi doctors is both outrageous and shocking, violating the trust placed upon them by humanity and breaking basic rights of morality. People must remember the Holocaust as a insult to humanity. The lives lost were not only great in number, but offered so much to mankind. How the world would have been different if the millions of souls
In Dachau, physicians from the German air force and from the German Experimental Institution for Aviation conducted high-altitude experiments on the Jewish prisoners held there. The German forces were ill prepared for the bitter cold and thousands of German soldiers died of freezing or were debilitated by cold injuries.The experiments were conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sigmund Rascher At Birkenau, Dachau and Auschwitz. Using low-pressure chambers, determining the maximum altitude from which crews of damaged aircraft could parachute to safety. Scientists there carried out “freezing experiments” using the Jewish to find an effective treatment for hypothermia. The freezing experiments were divided into two parts. First, to establish how long it would take to lower the body temperature to death and second how to best resuscitate the frozen victim. The “icy vat method” was the fastest
“The blonde hair, blue eye, super men were to be the only race”. Anyone else that did not meet the race requirements were to by cleansed from society through genocide. Hitler and the German High command made a list rules for the fellow Nazis to follow. Requiring all SS before marriage must submit to general testing to insure racial purity. Thousands of marriages were denied due to this. If the laws for marriage were broken it could mean the death penalty. First the party needed propaganda to prove all other races were inferior. Measurements of heads, eyes, nose, blood were required. The vast majority of the early experiments were a propaganda sham. It was determined Gypsies had different blood and were inclined to criminal behavior. The same type of findings were made of all races other than the Nazis. After the camps were started, vast genetic experiments were undertaken. The range of the testing was broad and specialized. The two major groups of experiments were first to refine the master race and second to determine the cause of defects. Dr. Josef Mengele research on twins and Gypsies exemplifies the quest for the genetic studies. Dr. Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death”. He would be at every selection when the new trains would arrive at Auschwitz. After the victims were unloaded off the trains and stripped naked and divided into men, women, and children, he would sort through the thousands of