The Horrors of Killing Centers During the Holocaust

Medical experiments were done on many of the prisoners of the concentration camp, but mostly on twins, and dwarfs. The main medical doctor that conducted these experiments was Joseph Mengel who was also known as the "Angle of death." The main types of medical experiments dealt with freezing/hypothermia, genetics, infectious diseases, interrogation, torture, genocide, high altitude, pharmacological, sterilization, surgery, and traumatic injuries.

Have you ever heard of the nasty, disgusting, and horrible conditions that jews had to suffer with in concentration camps during the Holocaust? Lice and fleas are a big part of conditions in concentration camps, another horrible condition in the camps are diseases and sanitation, lastly another awful condition in concentration camps is mass murder and starvation. Many people died in concentration camps during the Holocaust because of the environment the jews had to live in and deal with, and many families were split and torn apart because loved ones of theirs had died because of the horrible conditions in the camps.

During the holocaust prisoners of concentration camps were faced with evil, torture and death every day. Some of the prisoners in these camps were selected for Nazi medical experiments. Nazi doctors performed several different human experiments on prisoners throughout the Holocaust. A specifically horrific experiment was the twin experiments. This experiment was performed by Dr. Joseph Mengele and several of his assistants in Auschwitz. He is known for performing some of the most inhumane experiments during the holocaust.

The ignoble experiments of the nazi regime included exposure to freezing/ hypothermia, tests on the genetics of an individual, exposure to infectious diseases, undergoing of interrogation and torture, most effective and inexpensive methods of killing/ mass genocide, exposure to conditions resembling high altitude, pharmacological tests, sterilization of an individual, the undergoing of different surgeries, and inflicting traumatic injuries on the patent undergoing the experiment. The experiments done by nazis on prisoners were in an effort to find ways to cure burns, hypothermia, infections, and ways to mass exterminate the jews in the most cost efficient way possible.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis carried out many unethical medical experiments on patients without regard for their survival. Prisoners were forced to be subjects in various studies against their will. The Nazis’ victims went through indescribable pain as they were forced through high-altitude, freezing, tuberculosis, sea water, sulfanilamide, poison, and transplant experiments. Through these tragic Holocaust experiments, scientists and doctors discovered treatments used today for high-altitude sickness, hypothermia, contagious diseases, dehydration, poisoning, and war wounds.

Doctors of the Holocaust For the doctors of the Holocaust killing became the prerequisite for healing. The Nazi doctors at the death camps tortured men, women, and children. The doctors made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, and removed organs and limbs. For a doctor, phenol injections were the most literal example of the entire healing-killing reversal.

There were many doctors used during the holocaust including Dr. Josef Mengele, Dr. Carl Clauberg, Dr. Herta Oberheuser, and Dr. Karl Brandit to be some of the main ones that performed horrific experiments. These doctors performed some of the most horrific experiments known to mankind. They did many experiments including freezing/hypothermia, genetics,

Eleven million people died during the Holocaust of these eleven million people 2.4 million died from medical experiments conducted by German forces. These experiments were conducted mainly for three reasons. The first of which was to help the Germans gain knowledge that would help them better understand things that would have been viewed as threats or weaknesses to their military (Holocaust Museum). For example the Germans knew little of hypothermia and the weather located on the eastern front, so freezing experiments were conducted at Auschwitz concentration camp where most of their medical experiments occurred (Remember ). The second reason the Germans did medical experiments was to further their knowledge on how to pharmaceutically

This was when the attacks began. They destroyed Crematoria 4 and killed some of the guards there. The Sonderkommando attacked the SS and Kapos with 2 machine guns, axes, knives and grenades. Using the advantage of surprise from the SS of the attacks, they fought as fiercely as they could with limited weaponry, while whole groups of SS men drove in with machine guns and grenades. A quote from Salmen Lewental on their bravery, “They showed an immense courage refusing to budge from the spot. They set up a large shout, hurled themselves upon the guards with hammers and axes, wounded some of them, the rest they beat what they could get at, they pelted them with stones without further ado”The SS lost 15 soldiers, though most of the Sonderkommando were killed in the uprising. Those who escaped were later recaptured, and 200 Sonderkommandos were forced to strip, lie face down on the ground and were shot in the head. 451 Sonderkommandos were killed altogether. On January 6, 1945, four Jewish women who smuggled the gunpowder were found and executed after they refused to give the Nazis names of the people who helped smuggle the gunpowder. one of the women was Roza Robota. Eyewitnesses recount that the women were seen shouting “Vengeance!” and “Be strong and have courage” to the others prisoners before they

Thousands of people were dying every day because of the hatred for the jewish population that people displayed. People hated the Jews so much that they thought they needed to be punished. On January 30, 1933, World War II was already having thousands upon thousands of deaths per day, but it was about to get a lot worse when the Holocaust began. The Holocaust made the number of total deaths rise by about two million. The jewish people were put into concentration camps because Hitler believed they were not as good as everyone else, so he treated them terribly and their living conditions in concentration camps were awful.

When Dana returns from living as a slave in the Antebellum South, she identifies with accounts of survivors from the Holocaust during World War II. She compares the horrible acts of the Nazis to the behavior of slave holders who worked at every turn to demean enslaved people and lessen their humanity. While the monstrosities of the Holocaust may have been more intense over a shorter period of time, Butler points out that those who lived through slavery endured conditions just as horrible over a much longer duration. Yet while Americans are largely comfortable acknowledging the events of the Holocaust as the worst impulses of mankind, there is often more hesitancy to take responsibility for the degradations of enslaved people that took place

During the Holocaust, many innocent people were killed at the hands of the Nazis. Although this was a horrific event, some people suffered a fate even worse than death, medical experimentation. Most of the time, these medical experiments resulted in the death of the subject, but some lived. Even though they survived, they were almost always left in excruciating agony and most of the time disabled. The doctors who performed these experiments showed absolutely no mercy and tortured, mutilated, and murdered men, women, and children.

In 1933 the Nazis established concentration camps for people who weren’t like Germans. When Hitler came to lead Germany he started sending people to Concentration Camps. He thought German was the best religious belief and culture. Hitler created Concentration Camps for the people who weren’t German because he thought they were bad people.

Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding

Nazi Human Experimentation was a series of medical experiments that were proceeded onto large numbers of Jewish prisoners, including children by the Nazi Germany. These experiments took place in the 1940´s, during World War II and the Holocaust. The Jewish prisoners did not give the Nazi physicians their personal informed consent nor did they volunteer themselves to be experimented on. There is many ways to provide evidence that these experiments were crucial and unethical to mankind. These experiments were usually extremely painful and often deadly.