Nazi Medicine

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This paper looks at how the Holocaust killed millions of Jews, Gypsies, and other ethnicities that didn't fit the description of the super-race and how only the blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryans were accepted under Hitler's order of ethnic cleansing. It examines how one of Adolf Hitler's orders as leader of all Germany was to corral a large group of Jewish, Gypsy, and Russian prisoners on several different occasions and perform experiments on them as if they were animals or worse. It shows how prisoners were forced into deadly tests for the sole purpose of providing research information for the future technology and training of the Nazi military and how experiments were performed on the basis of high altitudes, extreme temperatures, disease, infection, genetics, battle wounds, and fertility.

From the Paper:

"The freezing experiments performed by the SS doctors were just as disturbing as any other experiment. Men were strapped down to stretchers and lowered in large tubs of ice water or stuck outside in negative-degree weather. They were left until their body was at its limit, and then brought back inside. The experimentation began with the method of reheating the prisoners' bodies. Some were injected with boiling water into their veins. Most died after their internal organs melted over. Some were placed into warm baths and the temperatures were slowly increased. This seemed to be the most successful, though some died of shock if the temperature increased too rapidly."

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