Medical Testing was performed at Auschwitz and other camps by Nazi physicians. Prisoners were put through excruciating pain during these experiments. When the experiment was complete the prisoner was killed and immediately autopsied, their organs were sent to a central lab for analysis.
The Reich ordered the research for the following reasons
Prisoners were subjected to the utmost cruelty
The Reich ordered the research for the following reasons
- aimed at improving the survival and rescue of German troops
- testing of medical procedures and pharmaceuticals
- experiments that sought to confirm Nazi racial ideology
Prisoners were subjected to the utmost cruelty
- placed in tubs filled with scalding hot water, then put into freezing cold water
- Placed into freezing cold water removed and injected into their intestines, kidneys, liver and other organs with scalding hot water
- put into decompression chambers to test the affects on the body of high altitude
Dr. Josef Mengele
Dr. Josef Mengele the most famous of the doctors who performed experiments on prisoners. His specialty was experimenting on fraternal and identical twins in order to trace the genetic origins of various diseases.
Mengele escaped capture and fled to Argentina, he was granted asylum until 1960. West Germany requested extradition form Argentina in 1960, he fled to Brazil and eventually Paraguay.
His remains were discovered in 1985, after analysis it was determined he was dead. he would never stand trial for his crimes.
Click on link below for details on Josef Mengele.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060
Nazi Doctors and Experiment Victims
Medical Testing on victims of the Nazi death camps were numerous. Indictments at the Nuremburg Trial of these doctors on the Experiments they performed included but were not limited to the following. Click on the links below for description of the atrocities performed by these Nazi doctors on men women and children.
A) High-Altitude Experiments
B) Freezing Experiments
C) Malaria Experiments
D) Lost (Mustard) Gas Experiments
E) Sulfanilamide Experiments
F) Bone, Muscle, and Nerve Regeneration and Bone Transplantation Experiments
G) Sea-Water Experiments
H) Epidemic Jaundice Experiments
I) Sterilization Experiments
J) Spotted Fever (Fleckfieber) Experiments
K) Experiments with Poison
L) Incendiary Bomb Experiments
The following Links are Court proceedings at the Nuremburg Trials
Altitude Experiment
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=154
Nazi atrocities: shrunken head, pieces of tattooed human skin, preserved skull and organs
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=159
Concentration camp experiment survivors Maria Kusmierczuk and Jadwiga Dzido, show their injuries to the court as evidence.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=215
A) High-Altitude Experiments
B) Freezing Experiments
C) Malaria Experiments
D) Lost (Mustard) Gas Experiments
E) Sulfanilamide Experiments
F) Bone, Muscle, and Nerve Regeneration and Bone Transplantation Experiments
G) Sea-Water Experiments
H) Epidemic Jaundice Experiments
I) Sterilization Experiments
J) Spotted Fever (Fleckfieber) Experiments
K) Experiments with Poison
L) Incendiary Bomb Experiments
The following Links are Court proceedings at the Nuremburg Trials
Altitude Experiment
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=154
Nazi atrocities: shrunken head, pieces of tattooed human skin, preserved skull and organs
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=159
Concentration camp experiment survivors Maria Kusmierczuk and Jadwiga Dzido, show their injuries to the court as evidence.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=215