Medical Experiments In The Holocaust

William Ogles Ogles 1Honors English 1Latham2/19/16 Medical Experiments in The Holocaust The Nazis during their holocaust of the Jews, the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II., medically experimented with their captives. They experimented in various ways, including how to combat hypothermia. These experiments left massive amounts of dead test subjects. All of these atrocities committed in the name of preserving the Aryan race and the Third Reich. Some of the numerous experiments were hypothermia treatments. The Nazis tried to discover the point at which the core temperature of a human was so low that they
He did not allow this and increased the temperature slightly to prolong their pain. They died after a long, painful stay in the tank." (Remembrance)This story is one example of the twisted brutality of the Nazi scientists. The slow warming of the water, let them suffer for several hours longer than other subjects. The test described helped lead to the stereotype that the Russian people could survive in lower temperature than normal Aryans. Some of the most infamous experiments in the holocaust were preformed on sets of twins. The most brutal of the researchers in the area of twin genetics was the "Angel of Death" of Auschwitz the doctor Joseph Mengele. Here is an example of his work with twins. "Prisoner doctors tell of the fate of two Hungarian twins who arrived at Auschwitz late in 1943. Dr. Mengele was at the camp selection. The train arrived in the very early morning. Three sets of twins were found. They were taken to the experimental block. Dr. Mengele ordered the two Hungarian twins be placed in the examination room. The two Hungarian twins young men age 18 were described as ”extremely athletic and handsome.” They had much body hair and were allowed to keep it for the first few
They would often sit naked in a room for up to eight hours at a time, as blood was drawn from one arm and unknown substances were injected into the other arm. The rumor spread around the barracks was that if one was taken to the hospital that Ogles 4 person never came back. “It was very easy to die in Auschwitz,” Kor said. “Surviving was a full time job.” (Chicago Tribune)The medical experiments on twins were very vile in their motives. The ideologies of the Nazis lead to the racism and genetic curiosity causing experiments on genetic marvels like twins. With the roots of these sick experiments in very shaky foundations, they believed that if they studied twins, they could clone Aryans to expand their race. Its painfully obvious that the Nazis were delusional and without these ideals many innocent people could have been spared a horrific fate, death at the hands of a "Medical Doctor". Another experiment performed by the Nazis was in woman's fertility and ways to make them infertile, so the Aryans were the only childbearing women. "Its very emotional, psychologically speaking to go into details. Please understand that I could never have any children. As I recall they the Nazi doctors experimented in my vagina with different instruments and cuts. that was