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Dr. Carl Clauberg was successful in treating a high-level SS officer’s infertile wife. Heinrich Himmler ordered Clauberg to conduct artificial insemination experiments. About 300 women from Auschwitz subsequently underwent artificial insemination. Clauberg was cruel, he would taunt the prisoners telling them he inseminated them with animal sperm and that monsters were now growing in their wombs. -
At Buchenwald concentration camp researchers were injecting Russian prisoners with phenol and cyanide. They would secretly poison prisoners with various poisons by putting in their food or shooting them with poison bullets. They studied how the poisons affected their bodies. Those who didn't die were killed and were performed autopsies.
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Doctors from Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and elsewhere were trying to sterilize millions of people. Men were castrated and their genitals were radiated. Women had caustic substances forced into their cervix or uterus which resulted in horrible pain, bleeding, and bursting spasms in the stomach. Thousands of prisoners who were sterilized suffered untold mental and physical anguish. -
Dr.Mengele also known as the Angel of Death. The most infamous figure of the Holocaust. He had an obsession with twins, his main focus was on human genetic research. At Auschwitz, Mengele injected twins with unknown substances. They were also injected with bacteria with Noma disease. An infection of the mouth or genitals, which caused boils and often turns gangrenous. He would also infect one twin then transfuse their blood into their healthy twin
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Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments at Dachau to try to save German pilots who were ejected. Prisoners were placed into low-pressure chambers that simulated altitudes as high as 68,000 ft. Their physiological responses were monitored as they died. Rascher dissected the victim's brains while they were still alive so he could see what high-altitude sickness affected the brain. The brains had formations of tiny air bubbles in the blood vessels in certain parts of the brain. 200 prisoners died -
Dr. Hans Eppinger and others at Dachau ran experiments on how to make seawater drinkable. Roughly 90 Gypsies were forced to drink only seawater while also being deprived of food. They became so dehydrated that they would lick the floors after being mopped just to get a drop of fresh water. -
Rascher started hypothermia experiments, the goal was to help German pilots who were ejected into the ocean or extreme weather in Russia. Prisoners were placed in icy water in either aviator suits or naked for up to five hours. The doctors documented heart rate, body temperature, muscle reflexes, and other things. When their body dropped below 79.9 F, they would rewarm them with hot sleeping bags, scalding baths, and even force women on them. https://youtu.be/vs0s_upvFEo?si=s6z8BIa5BCMV16vY
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At Ravensbruck, experiments of exchanging limbs between one another. They amputated legs and shoulders from prisoners. Bones, muscles, and nerves were also removed to see if they would regenerate. Prisoners suffered from excruciating pain, mutilation, and permanent disability.
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Doctors at Ravensbruck performed studies to test the effectiveness of sulfanilamide and other drugs. They inflicted battlefield-like wounds on prisoners, then infected the wounds with bacteria like streptococcus, tetanus, and gas gangrene. Doctors would infect wounds by rubbing glass and wood shavings into the wound, they would tie off blood vessels on either side of the injury to simulate what would happen to an actual war wound. Jadwiga Dzido was one of the victims of these experiments. -
In a camp near Strasbourg, France called Fort Ney. 52 prisoners were used to find an antidote to phosgene, a toxic gas used as a weapon during World War 1. According to records, prisoners suffered pulmonary edema after exposure, although they were already weak and malnourished, four of them died. -
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-medical-experiments
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/experiside.html#alti
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190723-the-ethics-of-using-nazi-science
https://urologichistory.museum/the-scope-of-urology-newsletter/issue-1-spring-2020/mengeles-experiments
https://theconversation.com/forced-sterilization-policies-in-the-us-targeted-minorities-and-those-with-disabilities-and-lasted-into-the-21st-century-143144