How Did Josef Mengele Use Medical Experiments

Prisoners of the Holocaust endured many terrors while in the concentration camps. These terrors include being worked to death, torture, rape and many more. One of the others, was experimentation. Nazi doctors would use their medical knowledge to inhumanely experiment on humans to find answers for medical advancements and questioned topics. The experiments conducted by the notorious Dr. Mengele were wrong and twisted and some who lived through them can still speak of the horror today.

Josef Mengele is the most well known Nazi scientist today. He is not known for good. Mengele is known for his brutal tests he conducted on poor Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz. Mengele started his journey in the medical field with Dr. Otmar von Verschuer
Doctors experimented how the body would react to hypothermia by putting the Jews into freezing cold ice baths to see how long before their bodies began to shut down. On the flip side, doctors would experiment with how the body could handle extreme heat. A victim would be in a bath and the water would slowly increase in temperature. The person was basically boiled to death. Physicians would test the human reactions to different types of poisons by secretly administering them to the prisoner's food. One particularly gruesome series of experiments were known as sulfanilamide experiments. These experiments were conducted by inflicting a wound on a patient and purposely infecting it with different strains of numerous kinds of bacteria. After, the Nazi Doctors would shove wood shavings and glass shards into the infected wounds to view the horrible outcomes. While conducting these experiments, blood circulation to the would was tied off. After death, bodies would be sent to science and dissected. Many endured these awful situations, but few live to tell their
A man known as Mr. G was tormented by dogs that had poison on their teeth. He recalls being told to run, but the dogs were too fast. He was bit and the doctors would examine the blood and the wounds. After some time, Mr. Gwas able to escape and his wounds began to heal. However, later in life Mr. G developed cancer because of the experiment.

A survivor, Ms. B recalls being lined up so Mengele could inspect the women and pick out the weak and sick to kill and perform an autopsy on or to experiment on. Many suffered from horrific rashes and it was believed that the Nazi’s put chemicals and drugs into their food that caused these skin deformities. Ms. B hid her sores, blisters, and wounds every day to save her life, but was soon taken in by Mengele. Fortunately, she was just given ointment to help rid of her rash.

Mr. E remembers being a child in the concentration camps and starving. He would beg for food with the other children until they were given desserts. Once they were consumed, they knew something was wrong and they all became very ill with vomiting, diarrhea, chills, and fevers. Poison had been put into their deserts. Mr. E suffered from these poisons. His legs became paralyzed and wasn't able to walk for several weeks. Immediately after he recovered, he was subjected to more experiments that included a series of injections in his mouth that resulted in a permanent hole