The Importance Of Nazi Medical Experiments

We have all heard the story. It isn’t fun to talk about this but its history that we must learn about. The Holocaust , the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis in gas chambers. That is the part of history we talk about. There is a lot more in this story that nobody really talks about. The medical experiments by the SS or Nazis. The Jews who went into the gas chambers fate was sealed, but the ones who the Nazis medical experiments suffered days, weeks, months, or years. Without help men, women, and children were used for the Nazis horrible experiments.

The experiments were completely terrible. The women went through some very horrible things. SS surgeon Karl Gebhardt picked six women to experiment on and sent them to the hospital block. The woman's legs were shaved and cleaned. The then went to bed not knowing what they were going to wake up to in the morning. When one of the girls woke up

They believe that there experiments were for science and would be found useful. When they were experimenting they were trying to cure diseases, find cures for infections, and finding cures against dangerous weapons. “The high value of gaining new scientific knowledge and the importance ascribed to the health and wellbeing of society as a whole, or the Volksoper, where the central arguments placed above any regard for the suffering person.”-one Nazi said during the Nuremberg Medical Trial. The Nazi doctor believed they were helping the German forces and doing things for the good of science. Even though they disregarded that they were tortured the Jews. During the medical experiments not a lot of things came from it. One experiment lead to the the cure for yellow fever. The other experiments didn’t seem to be useful, they were just crazy ideas that they thought they needed to know. They were just part of the killing of millions of Jews that science didn’t find