Holocaust Medical Experiments

During the Holocaust, there were shockingly horrifying medical experiments that took place involving concentration camp prisoners as “test” patients. Not only did these experiments violate the basic rights of human beings, but they were an absolute insult to humanity. While this topic is a very uncomfortable, and one that makes you question the minds of the people who conducted these experiments, it is one that is necessary so that we may become educated and not allow history to repeat itself. Over thirty experiments were conducted on prisoners of concentration camps during world war two. These experiments are split up into three main categories including medico-military research, miscellaneous, and radically motivated experiments. All of
The focus was on two main areas: how long it took to lower the body temperature before the patient would die, and how long it took to revive a frozen victim. The two most popular methods of freezing the victims were to place the person outside in extremely cold temperatures with no clothing on, or to submerge the victim in an icy vat of water. The icy vat proved to be the fastest way of dropping the body temperature. Before the person was placed in the icy vat or outside, a probe was inserted into the rectum to record the body temperature. The studies showed that most prisoners would lose consciousness and die when the body temperature dropped to twenty-five degrees Celsius. While most people died from the initial test, occasional survivors would often be re-warmed to repeat the harsh experiment. There were many methods of rewarming bodies that included lying under sun lamps, internal irrigation, hot baths, or forced fornication. The majority of the rewarming types of experiments were conducted at Dachau and Auschwitz.
High altitude tests were conducted by the German air force to see what altitudes pilots could parachute from. The victims would be placed in a low pressure chamber that simulated altitudes of up to 68,000 feet, and then doctors would dissect their brain to study the effects of the high altitude testing. The tests concluded that
It caused great agony, sometimes resulting in death. Over three hundred women at Auschwitz were experimented on at Auschwitz in block 10. It was made up of mostly married women between the ages twenty and forty, preferably who had not yet born children. They underwent artificial insemination with animal sperm. Doctor Clauberg would often tease female prisoners by telling them they had animal sperm inserted into them and monsters were now growing in their bodies. Women in block 10 also had caustic substances forced into their wombs or cervix, which caused unbearable pain, inflamed ovaries, internal bleeding, and bursting spasms in the stomach.
Sterilization experiments also took place at Auschwitz and Ravensbruck. Victims there would be put through many painful procedures such as x-rays, surgery, as well as being forced to take various drugs to find ways to sterilize mass amounts of people in short amounts of time. Thousands of prisoners had their genitals mutilated in the studies of mass