Human Experimentation Argumentative Essay

How would you like to be a lab rat forced to have painful medical experiments done upon you? This happened many times to war prisoners captured by the Nazis during World War 2. Many of the human test subjects were killed and the few who survived were never left the same again, many were left crippled, and physically and mentally disabled. After the war, unconsented Human Experimentation has been banned by the Nuremberg Code since the inhumane Nazi experiments on human prisoners during World War 2.
World War 2 was the slaughter of over 60 million innocent people and we must remember the “holocaust was an insult to humanity”(Remember.org). Many of the prisoners tested on were jewish, but there were also gypsies, twins, and anyone. The man
Whenever I tried to put my head out of the water in order to breathe I was forced back into the water by Dr. Josef Mengele’s stick. He was enjoying himself. This lasted for 10 minutes. I was immediately afterwards put into cold water and the same procedure was repeated. There were five [people] including myself undergoing the same process. After these daily sessions we were taken to barrack No. 8 – Auschwitz, which was destined [for] those who were to die, to see for how long we were going to survive. A [woman] passing by saw me gesturing and crying for help through a hole in a plank of the wooden barrack. She loosened the plank and wrapped me. I was saved. I know nothing about the fate of the other four persons” (Claimscon).
After World War 2 ended, between the years 1945 to 1949 a series of 13 trials were carried out in Nuremberg, Germany to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. According to History.com, The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) committed suicide and was never brought to