Auschwitz: Pseudo-Medical Experiments

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In 1940, the suburb of Oswiecim, a Polish city was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz. Others Poland’s western territories were incorporated into the Third Reich. Auschwitz was a German Nazi concentration camp. It existed in 1940–1945. Reasons for the establishment of the camp were that mass arrests of Poles were increasing beyond the capacity of existing "local" prisons. Auschwitz became the largest concentration and death camp ever founded by the Third Reich authorities. Often in they used chambers, or be used as slave labor. Its first prisoners were Poles. Initially the inmates also included a small group of Jews and some Germans. From 1942 the vast majority of those sent to Auschwitz were Jews and they also accounted for the largest number of its victims. Other very large groups of inmates and victims included the Poles, the Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. The Main Camp called Auschwitz I from 1943. Birkenau the Auschwitz II and Monowitz the Auschwitz III. Auschwitz from the very start Auschwitz functioned as an extermination camp. Living in terrible living conditions. In the first year of the camp’s existence most of the prisoners’ rooms had no beds or any other furniture. Prisoners lived in exceeding dampness and were greatly troubled by lice and rats. Sanitary conditions improved in 1943 …show more content…

Other effects of these experiments carried out on his victims, Jewish female prisoners, included fever, peritonitis and profuse bleeding of the genital tracts. Some prisoners were also subjected to barbaric medical experiments led by Josef Mengele. Auschwitz doctors tested methods of sterilization on the prisoners using massive doses of radiation, uterine injections, and other barbaric

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