Experiments During Ww2

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During world war 2, many jews were put in concentration camps. Some of which, were experimented on by the SS (stormfuhrer). These experiments were cruel, harsh, and performed on completely unwilling victims. Most of these experiments were performed with no numbing or pain killers. One of the most famous doctors to perform these was Dr. Josef Mengele. He did many experiments to try and find a way to sterilize the entire jewish race. What the SS did to the Jews during WW2 was unacceptable. There was no justification to what they did at all, even if some good did come out. The three categories of experiments
The first category of experiments was to facilitate the survival of axis forces. They did high altitude …show more content…

At several different camps, scientists tested immunization compounds to try and avoid contagious diseases from spreading in the field between soldiers. The SS came up with multiple immunization medicines including, malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis. The third category
The third category of medical experimentation sought to advance the racial and ideological tenets of the Nazi worldview. The most infamous were the experiments of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Mengele conducted medical experiments on twins. He also directed serological experiments on Roma, as did Werner Fischer at Sachsenhausen, in order to determine how different "races" withstood various contagious diseases. The research of August Hirt at Strasbourg University also intended to establish "Jewish racial inferiority." Nazi …show more content…

Josef mengele studied twins, as well as dwarfs. He also studied people with different colored irises and looked for a cure to water cancer. His first experiments were on gypsy children. Children who had noma were exterminated immediately. Kids organs and even heads were preserved and sent in jars to institutions. Mengele also selected dwarfs with physical disabilities (such as dwarfism) for extermination. During the first part of his experiments mengele would subject pairs of twins to be experimented on (mostly awake and without painkillers or numbing). The experiments lasted for hours and was exhausting and painful for these children, most of which were already starved). The subjects were photographed and plaster casts were taken of their jaws and teeth. Their finger and toe prints were taken as well. Once the experimentation was over, mengele ordered the twins or dwarfs to be executed by lethal injection so he could move onto the next set.

Dr. Carl Clauberg was more interested in finding a way to sterilize the jewish race so that they would not be able to repopulate. Several hundred jewish women lived on the second floor of block 10. Clauberg developed a non surgical method of mass sterilization. He would expose the subjects to a chemical that would cause inflammation in the reproductive organs of the females, thus making them unable to become impregnated. Some of Claubergs subjects died due to the chemicals, the rest were ordered to be killed so Clauberg could do autopsies

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