Doctors That Don't Help
A medical experiment.
Throughout much of the Holocaust, the Nazis performed many medical experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners, and many of those experiments turned out in a fatal way. The experiments that the Nazis carried out on these prisoners can be divided into three different categories. The first category consists of experiments that test how far military personnel can be pushed without dying, which is why prisoners were selected to be the experimenters. The second category had to do with developing medicines and treatment methods that German military personnel encountered. Finally, the third category dealt with advancing the racial and ideological tenets of the Nazi worldview. View pictures of medical experiments that took place at Auschwitz here.
These concentration camps prisoners could encounter a variety of medical experiments, however one of the most outrageous experiments that the Nazis performed on them dealt with how far these prisoners could be pushed without dying. For example, these prisoners would see what the highest altitude was that they could parachute out of a damaged aircraft without injuring themselves as well. So with this experiment, prisoners would keep going higher and higher in the plane until they finally died while they were parachuting out of the aircraft. Also in this category would include freezing experiments that doctors performed in order to see if
they could find a treatment for hypothermia. Both of these experiments would be horrible ways to die as imagined.
Nazi doctors spent a good amount of time trying to develop methods for helping treat diseases and injuries which members of the German military encountered while in combat. And of course, these prisoners were the ones that the doctors experimented on in order to see if the medicines they created worked. Diseases that were trying to be prevented or cured from these new medicines include diseases like malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and hepatitis. Without testing these drugs on the prisoners and killing them in the process, the Nazis were able to use yet another method of extermination.
These concentration camps prisoners could encounter a variety of medical experiments, however one of the most outrageous experiments that the Nazis performed on them dealt with how far these prisoners could be pushed without dying. For example, these prisoners would see what the highest altitude was that they could parachute out of a damaged aircraft without injuring themselves as well. So with this experiment, prisoners would keep going higher and higher in the plane until they finally died while they were parachuting out of the aircraft. Also in this category would include freezing experiments that doctors performed in order to see if
they could find a treatment for hypothermia. Both of these experiments would be horrible ways to die as imagined.
Nazi doctors spent a good amount of time trying to develop methods for helping treat diseases and injuries which members of the German military encountered while in combat. And of course, these prisoners were the ones that the doctors experimented on in order to see if the medicines they created worked. Diseases that were trying to be prevented or cured from these new medicines include diseases like malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and hepatitis. Without testing these drugs on the prisoners and killing them in the process, the Nazis were able to use yet another method of extermination.