Medical Experiments During The Holocaust Essay

Medical Experiments Performed During the Holocaust

In the time of the Holocaust, the Germans had many purposes. They wanted to kill of a race of people on the earth. But at the same time, they wanted to become more powerful than any nation in the world. One way for them to do that was to obtain it through extensive and cruel research. What exactly were the medical experiments during the Holocaust and what did they hope to achieve and was it justifiable? The experiments were tests to further Germany’s scientific might while in their mind's eye, killing off a race that they deemed was unfit to live. They killed two birds with one stone.

The medical experiments were a series of tests and procedures that the Germans performed on the Jewish people.

They would either put them in a vat of freezing water to rapidly drop the body temperature, or, they would put them outside naked for a prolonged period of time. When the SS doctors deemed the time to be long enough, they forcefully irrigated blistering hot water into the victim's stomach, bladder, and intestines. This treatment killed most of the victims. The best way they found to restore body temp was to place them in a warm bath and let the body slowly regain its heat.

The gassing tests, were a set of tests that were designed to test new ways to kill a victim. They were often done when a scientist made a new chemical compound and wanted to test it out to see what it would do to the human body. The Nazi goals for this test was to find ways to possibly begin what one would call chemical warfare. They were also looking for chemicals that would be able to kill a large amount of people, faster.

Twin research and medical experiments were by far the worst subject for victims to be placed under. The german goals for these set of tests, was to see how twins bodies were related and how they were able to function. The germans didn't have twins in their country very often. Which is why the SS doctors welcomed the opportunity to be able to test on the Jewish

It is also able to tell what gasses could kill us or not. The information that was obtained through twin research was also valuable information. Because of the extensive research done on twins, we now know how they are alike to each other when other people are not. This research was not obtained by sane, or humane people. While this form of research should have occurred, some good did come out of it in the means of valuable data.

In the Germans eyes, they were completely justified in the killing and experimentation of the Jewish people. Now why would they think that? They thought that, because their goal was to kill off all threat to what they called the pure blooded German people. They believed that anyone who was not of pure blooded decent should be killed, or sterilized. The Germans saw anyone who wasn't a German as a genetic threat that needed to be put down. They decided to kill two birds with one stone here. While killing off the threat, why not go ahead and experiment on them to further German science. And they did just