Nazi Guinea Pigs Analysis

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While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, I was able to visit the “I Want Justice!” exhibits (Wexner Center). My main area of focus was the Nazi Guinea Pigs essay written by Erica Anderson. This section changed my viewpoint on the Holocaust as a whole. I have always learned about the Holocaust and how horrible it was. After reading the essay, I felt connected to those who endured medical experimentations at the various concentration camps in Germany. An anonymous Polish victim stated, “the Nazi doctors didn’t experiment on a state. They experimented on humans being. We are those human being.” These prisoners were humans; I am human. In the

In brief, the “I Want Justice!” exhibits taught me that humans are be cruel and ill willed

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