NAZI MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

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NAZI MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

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NAZI MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

During World War II, some German doctors carried out painful, and often fatal, experiments on thousands of prisoners in the concentration camps without their consent.

Medical experiments contrary to every ethical sense that were carried out during the Third Reich can be divided into three categories. The first covers experiments aimed at facilitating the survival of Axis military personnel. In Dachau, doctors from the German Air Force and the German Experimental Aviation Institution carried out experiments at high altitudes, using low pressure chambers, to determine the maximum altitude from which the crew of a damaged aircraft could be parachuted with security. The scientists conducted experiments on freezing those who used the prisoners to find an effective treatment against hypothermia. They also used the prisoners to test various methods of purifying the seawater.

The second category of experiments was aimed at the development and testing of pharmaceutical products and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses to which German military personnel and occupation personnel were exposed in the fields. In the German concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald and Neuengamme, the scientists tested immunization compounds and serums for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases; Among them are malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever and infectious hepatitis. In the field of Ravensbrueck experiments were performed with bone grafts and experiments to test the efficacy of newly developed sulfa drugs (sulfanilamide).

The third category of medical experiments was intended to progress in the racial and ideological principles of the Nazi vision. The most infamous were the experiments of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. Mengele conducted medical experiments with twins. He also conducted serological experiments with Roma (Gypsies), as did Werner Fischer in Sachsenhausen, to determine how the various "races" endured the different contagious diseases. August Hirt's research at the University of Strasbourg also aimed to establish "Jewish racial inferiority."

Other horrifying experiments, which sought to broaden the racial objectives of the Nazis, consisted of a series of sterilization experiments carried out mainly at Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck. There, scientists tested several methods in their effort to develop an efficient and inexpensive procedure for the total sterilization of Jews, Roma and other groups considered racially or genetically undesirable by the Nazis.

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