Holocaust Experiments

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We all know of the millions killed during the Holocaust due to gas chambers, starvation, and being worked to death, but what about the ones who were experimented on with out consent, to them it would have been better to have been sent to the gas chamber. Although doctors are usually the one’s people think of to keep us healthy and to heal us, it is just the opposite in the case of the Holocaust. Doctors conducted many cruel and unusual experiments on Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and many others that Hitler found to be a threat to the Aryan race. These experiments were not conducted on behalf of the human race but for the Aryan race, they were conducted to see how cold a German soldier could get before hypothermia set in or before they died. Many experiments were conducted to see if the cells of one inmates organ or body part would regenerate if it was placed on another’s body, or if they could figure out how to make twins so they could artificially inseminate a woman and spread the Aryan race quicker. One of the most common experiments was the freezing experiment. The freezing experiment was conducted to determine the most effective means for treating German pilots who had become severely chilled from ejecting into the ocean, or German soldiers who suffered extreme exposure on the Russian front (The Experiments). The freezing experiments were divided into two parts. First, to establish how long it would take to lower the body temperature to death and second how to best resuscitate the frozen victim. The two main methods used to freeze the victim were to put the person in an icy vat of water or to put the victim outside naked in sub-zero temperatures. After each victim was frozen the doctors would try and find the best way to resuscitate them. There were many ways used to resuscitate the victims, the Hot Bath was found to be the most successful but the Sun Lamp, Internal Irrigation, and Warming by Body Heat were also used. Wit...