Nazi Race Experiments

During World War II, German doctors and physicians conducted harmful and cruel experiments with victims of the Holocaust; mainly in the concentration camp “Auschwitz.” Nazis’ goals were to improve their medical science, prove that they were the “Master Race,” and they also wanted to have better treatments for the personnel of the German Military. The experiments performed were often deadly, but the physicians didn’t care, and tested the prisoners anyway. Some of the many victims were Jews, Romans, and others, who never gave their consent. Following this further, the Nazi’s experiments were divided in three categories - Race Experiments, War Injury Related Experiments, and Medical Experiments. Firstly there were the Racial Experiments, which
A law was created July 14, 1933 for “the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Disease” This led to the sterilization of 200.000 Germans. According to the Encyclopedia Judaica “Sterilization could rid the master race of those within it who were less than masterful” (Nazi 43). This would enable the Nazis to be free of preoccupations that the people with sickness would stop reproducing. Dr. Schumann was the doctor conducted the investigations in Auschwitz; which is where these experiments were administered. Two or three times a week, groups of 30 prisoners were sent to have their testicles and ovaries irradiated with X-rays. As said in Gale’s Encyclopedia Judaica, “prisoners subjected to these experiments were sent back to work, even though they suffered from serious burns and swelling” (Nazi 43). This shows how bad the sufferers of these experiments were treated. Even though the victims were struggling because of the burns and swellings, they were put to hard work. Finally, the results of the experiment were disappointing for the Nazis, yet they kept looking to “Prove
Some were killed, some were convicted to long prison terms. After the trials, the court articulated 10 principles that define what was wrong with the experiments. Also, they formed the foundation of the contemporary practice. Nevertheless, victims who were freed, grew to be healthy men and women with great ideas, and good things to provide to the world, such as forgiveness. For example, Eva Kor and her twin sisters created organizations to find the other victims and reunite. As one of the sisters explained during an interview at The Methodist Hospital, “The sisters worked together to organize CANDLES, Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors” (Survivor 1). The sisters were survivors from Joseph Mengele’s experiments. The two sisters found 122 twins living in 10 different countries who after a while reconnected thanks to CANDLES. Although all these bad was done to them, some forgave them, like Eva Kor. She states in one of her speeches, “This act of forgiveness is an act of self healing. I believe forgiveness is a modern miracle of medicine” (Survivor 1). That was a way to heal her body and soul from being a victim of Auschwitz. In the end, not a lot of people agreed with her, even the kids of that generation, but she was right, “Medical science can only benefit mankind when the researchers respect the wishes of their human