Ms. Herring
7th Grade ELA
11-9-17
What experiments were performed on victims of the Holocaust?
The Holocaust is an event that will truly go down as the biggest genocide in history. Now let's take a closer more in-depth look at the experiments. The experiments of the Holocaust were targeted toward anyone who didn't fit the perfect format. It was one of the most horrific things possible. There were many experiments conducted during the Holocaust, and they were arguably the most horrific part of this terrible event killing more than 3,000 Jewish children alone.
The Holocaust experiments began with Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele lacked a bad backstory to which no one can point a finger when attempting to explain his bad acts. As a …show more content…
They would do things like put a person in an icy vat of water or to put the victim outside naked in sub-zero temperatures. Then to warm them up again they would subject them to radiation filled heat lamps until they were pouring sweat. Some 300 women at Auschwitz subsequently underwent artificial insemination at the hands of Clauberg, who reportedly taunted victims strapped down before him by informing them that he had just inseminated them with animal sperm and that monsters were now growing in their wombs. Also, the doctors forced roughly 90 Gypsies to drink only seawater while also depriving them of food. The Gypsies became so dehydrated that they reportedly licked floors after they had been mopped just to get a drop of fresh water. Next, to come up with an effective means of sterilizing millions of people with a minimum of time and effort, doctors at Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and elsewhere conducted experiments on both men and women. To learn if a limb or joint from one person could be successfully attached to another who had lost that limb or joint experimenters at Ravensbruck amputated legs and shoulders from inmates in useless attempts to transplant them onto other victims. As well as mysterious injections caused severe pain. Injections into the spine and spinal taps were given with no anesthesia. Diseases, including typhus and tuberculosis, would be purposely given to one twin and not the other. …show more content…
The events that were spoken of were not just horror tales these were things that happened to real people. In conclusion this paper has brought to light horrors of the Holocaust and helped you as the reader understand what took place during this terrible event. Works Cited
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