During the Holocaust, the officers did brutal experiments to the Jews. They would perform fatal medical experiments on them, which was torture, just to find cures for their own people. If they found cures they would not help cure the Jews if they were sick. Once the test subject could no longer perform the tasks the scientist wanted them to do, they would kill them. To kill them they would either put them through so much pain their bodies could not take it anymore or they would shoot them. They have painful ways to get the infections into the test subjects body. The scientists would create many different diseases in the victim's body. They stated that they did the experiments to find treatments for malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fevers, and hepatitis (Nazi). To get the infections into the test subjects body, they would either cut wounds with knives or anything they could find and let infection start on its own or inject it themselves through shots. When they cut the Jews they would purposely not sterilize the equipment. Scientists creating diseases inside of people was a cruel thing to do. Their reasoning for doing this was to find cures …show more content…
“Without any reason they made a cut, about 10 centimeters long and 2 centimeters wide, in my arm above the palm of my hand. Today I understand that the surgery that was done on me without anesthesia was done purposely with tools that were not sterilized to cause infection. At the time they kept exchanging the bandages with different medicated creams and liquids. The bandage was not wrapped around the arm but only covered the wound. Every day they examined the cut and each time the cut was about to heal, they reopened it and started the whole thing from the beginning” (Conference). When they would cut these people they would not get them any anesthetics. These people would get such bad infections, from not keeping the wound clean, that some would lose their
The Republican sniper had medical knowledge from training that helped him, for the rest of his life. An opposing sniper on a rooftop targeted and shot the Republican sniper. The shot had left his arm immobilized, and left him in a lot of pain. Since the bullet was still in his arm and most likely fractured the bone, the Republican sniper saturated the bullet hole with iodine to prevent infection and clean the wound. Then, he covered the wound in a piece of cotton and added the dressing over it.
The Nazi medical experiments are a series of experiments conducted by Nazi doctors to test specific medical needs of humans. These experiments took place in all German concentration camps, mainly Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Dachau. These experiments are cruel and done without consent from the person being experimented on. The most famous Nazi doctor of the Holocaust was Dr. Josef Mengele who worked at Auschwitz. He is often called the “Angel of Death” because he determined the fates of those who arrived at Auschwitz.
Researches at Hopkins, frequently performed test on their patients, for example injecting them with cancerous cells to see how their bodies would react. Since they saw nothing wrong doctors
Prisoners were tested on, “prisoners nationwide were being used for research of all kinds - from testing chemical warfare agents to determining how x-raying testicles affected sperm count” (Skloot 129). Some of the prisoners volunteered to be used as a test subject while many others did not. Southam injected cancerous cells into more than 600 people, mostly cancer patients to begin with, and proceeding with healthy patients to see if it would make a difference; “Since people with cancer seemed to reject the cells more slowly than the healthy people did, he thought that by timing the reaction rate, he might be able to find undiagnosed cases of cancer” (Skloot 130). However, the healthy patients were not aware of what Southam was injecting into their bodies, if the patients were to ask about what he was doing to them, he would say that he was testing them for cancer but in all reality he was injecting cancer into their bodies.
Many perished while others underwent serious injury and extreme agony. Another form of these experiments was the mustard gas trials. In these tests "doctors" deliberately perpetrated wounds and infected them with poisonous mustard gas. They also examined various contagions by emitting the chemicals into a captives'
This is only the beginning of the dangerous experiments, that they did on some of the prisoners. The second category was focused on testing and developing medicines to help treat injuries that german soldiers receive while in the field. These experiments were
The Holocaust brought haunting memories of the past to anyone who survived those times. The treatment of the workers cannot be justified by any means, it was a crime against humanity. Such examples include how they are rationed with food, living in poor conditions, and treated like animals. Though the treatment in the camps are one factor why people fear these times, the presence of Dr. Mengele in the biggest concentration camp, Auschwitz, brought torment and death to his patients. He brought pain to his patients in a way that is viewed as ruthless, inhuman or in any moment, death.
Tuskegee Study The Tuskegee Study was conducted at such a time wherein syphilis became widespread. Syphilis during this time did not have any cure or therapy which made the researchers curious to how it will affect the body system. Their main goal was to monitor and know the progression of syphilis without any medicine or therapy. The Tuskegee Study started in Macon County and they employed about 600 African Americans as their subjects.
Then, there was a sterilization experiment. They conducted the experiment by using drugs, surgery, and x-rays. Thousands of victims were experimented on. The most common choice was radiation treatment. The victims were deceived into going into a room where the treatment was being held.
The man that performed these experiments was a named, Josef Mengele. Mengele injected these children with lethal germs, sex change operations, and he removed organs and limbs off of these innocent children. Eva and Miriam both survived these experiments and they were liberated
Nazis used the jewish people during the Holocaust to conduct extremely inhumane medical studies. Anti Semitism is the reason for the actions of the Nazi people, they wanted to eliminate Jewish people just because of who they are. “All people are different, that's why everybody should be treated the Mason 2 Same” (Ashleigh Brilliant). As much as we would like this quote to be true it is far from it and has
Lastly, Josef Mengele did not give most of the prisoners he experimented on anesthesia. The fact that he didn’t use anesthesia makes everything that he did already ten times worse. The awful thing is that real human beings had to experience these excruciating experiments even when they did nothing to harm Dr. Mengele. This quote is from a woman who was held at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, “ I was used as a guinea pig for medical experiments. I was never ever given painkillers or anesthetics.”
The holocaust was a terrible time in human history. The Nazis tortured, dehumanized, and systematically slaughtered as many as six million Jews. During this time, many physicians and doctors were sent to death camps all around Germany to run horrifying and cruel experiments on the Jews. Out of all the Nazi doctors, the one that stands out the most is Dr. Josef Mengele. Dr. Mengele was the most murderous doctor of them all.
Torture as a form of interrogation dates back to 530AD, when Roman jurists espoused the virtues of torture as “the highest form of truth” (Ross, 2005, p. 4). Greek legal orator Demosthenes believed that “no statements made as a result of torture have ever been proved untrue”. Torture can be defined as an act inflicting mental or physical pain and suffering in order to obtain information, punish, intimidate or for any reason from a person or a third person. The 20th Century saw a revival of torture techniques against perceived opponents of the state, and priority was given to state security. The Stalinist regime of the 1930s used torture to instil terror into the population, marking a convergence away from its traditional use to generate confessions (Green, 2011).
The experiments were conducted on prisoners of war, principally Koreans, Chinese and Russian soldiers. The prisoners were used to test numerous bioweapons, including Yersinia pestis, Vibrio cholera, Neisseria meningitides and Bacillus anthracis (Leitenberg, 2001). During this research, several thousand prisoners died as a result of the experiments conducted on them. However, the mortality rate around the area of Unit 731