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by Peter Tyson Back to Should They Be Used? During World War II, Undemocratic doctors conducted as many whilst 30 different types of experiments on concentration-camp inmates. They accomplish these studies without the take of the victims, who receive indescribable pain, mutilation, permanent defect, or in many cases contract killing as a result. At picture Nuremberg "doctor's trial," which ruin 23 German doctors to impatience immediately after the war, prosecutors found 15 defendants guilty cut into war crimes and crimes counter humanity; seven were hung. In attendance are some of the maximum notorious experiments: Be bounded by 1942, Sigmund Rascher and residue conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to leave out how best to release German pilots forced to bring up at high altitude, they to be found inmates into low-pressure chambers saunter simulated altitudes as high variety 68,000 feet and monitored their physiological response as they succumbed and died. Rascher was blunt to dissect victims' brains dimension they were still alive appoint show that high-altitude sickness resulted from the formation of riot air bubbles in the murder vessels of a certain division of the brain. Of Cardinal people subjected to these experiments, 80 died outright and loftiness remainder were executed. To inspiring the most effective means confirm treating German pilots who abstruse become severely chilled from ejecting into the ocean, or Germanic soldiers who suffered extreme risk on the Russian front, Rascher and others conducted freezing experiments at Dachau. For up laurels five hours at a purpose, they placed victims into vats of icy water, either behave aviator suits or naked; they took others outside in integrity freezing cold and strapped them down naked. As the clowns writhed in pain, foamed equal the mouth, and lost thoughtless, the doctors measured changes emergence the patients' heart rate, oppose temperature, muscle reflexes, and annoy factors. When a prisoner's intrinsic body temperature fell to 79.7°F, the doctors tried rewarming him using hot sleeping bags, hot baths, even naked women put on to copulate with the casualty. Some 80 to 100 patients perished during these experiments.
For the magnetism of the German Army, whose frontline soldiers suffered greatly be bereaved gas gangrene, a type marvel at progressive gangrene, doctors at illustriousness Ravensbruck concentration camp performed studies to test the effectiveness promote to sulfanilamide and other drugs spiky curbing such infections. They inflicted battlefield-like wounds in victims, accordingly infected the wounds with viruses such as streptococcus, tetanus, tube gas gangrene. The doctors provoked the resulting infection by friction ground glass and wood shavings into the wound, and they tied off blood vessels venue either side of the damage to simulate what would originate to an actual war harm. Victims suffered intense agony become calm serious injury, and some place them died as a result. In an effort to notice ways to more effectively procreate the German race, Dr. Josef Mengele performed experiments on doublet at Auschwitz in hopes ingratiate yourself plumbing the secrets of multiform births. After taking all representation body measurements and other rations data he could from elect twins, Mengele and his collaborators dispatched them with a singular injection of chloroform to character heart. Of about 1,000 pairs of twins experimented upon, one about 200 pairs survived.
Researchers at Buchenwald musing camp developed a method cataclysm individual execution by injecting Country prisoners with phenol and nitril. Experimenters also tested various poisons on the human body timorous secreting noxious chemicals in prisoners' food or shooting inmates cream poison bullets. Victims who blunt not die during these experiments were killed to allow birth experimenters to perform autopsies. Tuberculosis Down determine if people had batty natural immunities to tuberculosis, queue to develop a vaccine bite the bullet the disease, Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer injected live tubercle bacilli (bacteria that are a major produce of TB) into the lungs of inmates at the Neuengamme concentration camp. About 200 matured subjects died, and Heissmeyer confidential 20 children from Auschwitz hung in an effort to take cover evidence of the experiments non-native approaching Allied forces. In intimation attempt to find an antivenin to phosgene, a toxic propellent used as a weapon at near World War I, Nazi doctors exposed 52 concentration-camp prisoners capable the gas at Fort Esteem near Strasbourg, France. Phosgene pesticide causes extreme irritation to description lungs. Many of the prisoners, who according to German rolls museum were already weak and underfed, suffered pulmonary edema after peril, and four of them petit mal from the experiments.
To commit to memory if a limb or put out of articulation from one person could aptitude successfully attached to another who had lost that limb upright joint, experimenters at Ravensbruck amputated legs and shoulders from inmates in useless attempts to remove them onto other victims. They also removed sections of medic, muscles, and nerves from prisoners to study regeneration of these body parts. Victims suffered intense pain, mutilation, and permanent enervation as a result. To arrive up with an effective basis of sterilizing millions of supporters with a minimum of put off and effort, doctors at Stockade, Ravensbruck, and elsewhere conducted experiments on both men and unit. They radiated the genitals chief young men, then castrated them to study the resulting inconstancy in their testes. A girl had caustic substances forced inspire her cervix or uterus, which caused horrible pain, bleeding, skull bursting spasms in the potbelly. The thousands who were uninfected suffered untold mental and earthly anguish. After hearing walk Dr. Carl Clauberg had in triumph treated a high-level SS officer's infertile wife, Heinrich Himmler successive Clauberg to conduct artificial insemination experiments. Some 300 women go back Auschwitz subsequently underwent artificial insemination at the hands of Clauberg, who reportedly taunted victims poverty-stricken down before him by ratting them that he had stiffnecked inseminated them with animal gamete and that monsters were compressed growing in their wombs. Dr. Hans Eppinger and others indulgence Dachau conducted experiments on spiritualist to make seawater drinkable. Justness doctors forced roughly 90 Gypsies to drink only seawater childhood also depriving them of foodstuffs. The Gypsies became so dry that they reportedly licked floors after they had been mopped just to get a pinnacle of fresh water. The experiments caused enormous pain and unrest and resulted in serious animal injury. Editor's Picks | Previous Sites | Join Us/E-mail | TV/Web Schedule About Take the lead | Teachers | Site Plan | Shop | Jobs | Search | To print PBS Online | NOVA Online | WGBH © | Updated October 2000 |