Doctors have always been thought of as the savior of mankind, the healers, and caretakers of our existence. Even ancient civilizations revered the  medicine men as having special power to protect life . The trust of a physician is sacred. This is why the practice of medicine by the doctors of the Third Reich is horrible, outrageous, and shocking. The Nazi doctors violated the trust placed in them by humanity. There were hundreds of experiments used on innocent Jews. The most painful truth is for the most part the doctors escaped their crimes against humanity and lived a long, comfortable life, unlike their victims.
As serving victim of the "Angel of Death", Josef Mengele, Alex Dekal later stated. " Mengele ran a butcher shop- major surgeries were performed without a total loss of sense of pain." "Once, I witnessed a stomach operation- Mengele was removing pieces from the stomach, but without any anesthetic. Another time, it was a heart that was removed, again, without anesthesia, , it was horrorifying."
Freezing/hypothermia: experiments were conducted for the Nazi high command. The experiments were conducted on men to simulate the conditions the armies suffered on the Eastern front . The experiments were conducted under the supervision of Dr.Sigmund Rascher at Birkenau, Dachau and Auschwitz.
At Auschwitz men and women were positioned repeatedly for several minutes between two X-rays machines aimed at there sexual organs.
Epidemic Jaundice: The experimental  subjects were deliberately infected with Epidemic Jaundice, some of whom died as a result, and others were caused great pain and suffering. 
Incendiary Bomb: from about November 1943 to about January 1944 experiments  were conducted at the Buchenwald concentration camps to test the effect of various pharmaceutical preperations on phosphorous burns. This matter was taken by Incendiary  bombs.
 
Bone, Muscle, and Nerve Regeneration and bone transplantation: sections of bones, muscles, and nerves were removed from the subjects. As a result of these operations, many victims suffered intense agony, mutilation , and permanent disability.

Tuskegee Syphilis: 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis study begins, 200 men diagnosed with Syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease.  
Warming by body: They tried to use women to warm the frozen men. He suggested that the victim and a woman copulate. This perverted experiment had some success. 
Hot bath: The victim was placed in warm water and the temperate forcefully and slowly increased. This  method proved to be the best. Many victims died due to shock if they were  warmed up to quickly.
Internal Irrigation: the frozen victim would have would have water heated to a near blistering temperature forcefully irrigated  into the stomach , bladder , and intestines. All victims appeared to have died from the treatment.
Oberhauser: Dr. Herta Oberhauser killed prisoners with oil and evapin injections, removed their lims and vital organs, rubbed ground glass and sawdust into wounds.
Helmut Vetter: Helmut Vetter carried out medical experiments with different sorts of medicine at KZ Gusen. He specialized in tuberculosis and experimental in 1944 with "Ruthenol and praeparat 3582 at block No. 27 of KZ Gusen I."
Karl Brandt: was Hitler's personal physician. He received regular promotions from the SS and, by January 1943, Brandt was major  general in medical experiments. 
Dr. Sigmund Rascher: Dr. Rascher was given his assignment to do Air force experiments like the freezing  experiment.
Herbert F. Heim: Besides his private experiments, he specialized in the production of preparations of Human heads. Some  were sent to friends of his as special gifts, or used as a paper weight.
Eduard Krebsbach: Eduard Krebsbach was the first to start mass execution  of ill and unfit prisoners by heart injections. So he was nicknamed "Dr. Spritzbach" (injection doctor).
Dr. Klaus Schilling: He conducted experiments on Dachau prisoners, using various drugs in an effort to find a cure for malaria.
Herman Keisewetter: He carried out KZ Gusen inmates for no medical reason. Kiesewetter also carried out trepanations with KZ Gusen inmates. 
Dr.Cornelius Rhoads: 1931 Dr. Cornielius Rhoads under the auspices of the Rock federal institute. 
Schumann: Himmler, writing to SS- Oberfuhrer Brack , on August 11, 1942, expressed an intrest in sterilization experiments involving the use X-rays. In April of 1944 he received a report of the work of Dr.Hurst Schumann" on the influence of X- rays on human genital glands" at Auschwitz. 
Johann Paul Kremer: his job was to asses prisoners attempting to gain admission to the  hospital Kremer order most of them killed by phenol injection.
Maria Mandel: she was head of the women's camp at Auschwitz , the prisoners refered to her as " the Beast". She served in gas chambers and medical experiments.
Carl Claudberg: he preformed experiments into sterilization at both Auschwitz  and ravensbruck.
 
Josef Mengele: he commanded the section process prisoners underwent upon arrival at Auschwitz -Birkenau. The fate of the prisoners who arrived was held in his hands. He was nicknamed as "the Angel of Death".

Sunlamp: The victims were placed under sunlamps which were so hot they would burn the skin. One young victim was repeatedly cooled to unconsciousness then received the lamps until he was pouring sweat.  He died one evining after several tes sessions 
Genetics  Mengele did a number of experiments using twins, these twins were as young as five year olds were usually murdered after the experiment was over and there bodies dissiesed.
Experiments with poison: experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of various poisons  upon human beings. They were secretly transmitted  in the subjects food. The victims died as the result of the poison.
High- altitude Experiments : to investigate the limits of human endurance and  existence at extremely high altitudes . The victims were placed in the low-pressure chamber and thereafter the simulated altitude there in was raised.  Many victims died as a result of these experiments and others suffered grave injury, torture and illtreatment.
Conclusion: Around 2.7 million Jews were killed in the hands of the Nazi's in medical experiments. Most doctors were arrested or got away. 
   
Drake Muncy

7th Holocaust  Project

Rossville Jr. High April 2005   

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