Nazi Experiments During The Holocaust

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After hours of performing a back braking surgery, the doctor takes a few steps back to gaze at the creation before him. Severed limbs are carefully stitched to the test subject on the medical table. Arms, legs, and ties cover the body of the Jew, and the doctor eyes dance with amusement at the human before him. Hours later, the test subject emerges from slumber only to be swallowed by the immense pain controlling his figure. The doctor listens to the screams that fill the void of the test lab, and suddenly, the cries fall to a dead silence. The doctor is overtaken by rage as his experiment has yet again filled, but he strolls through the concentration camps because he has an endless supply of test subjects before him. During the Holocaust, it was normal for Nazi doctors to perform experiments on individuals living in concentration camps. Nazi doctors performed experiments that consisted of miscellaneous, inferior races, and statistical date in order to prove their thesis on certain matters. To begin with, during the Holocaust, Nazi doctors performed miscellaneous experiments to purposely inflict pain onto their test subjects. The unethical part of the experiments was that the doctors deliberately caused pain in order to bring amusement to their everyday lives. According to Poisuo, Herta …show more content…

Since the German race was dominant, Nazi doctors conducted numerous experiments on Jews, Gypsies and many more individuals to study their DNA to further understand German dominance. During the Holocaust, “…Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry” (“Nazi Racial Science”). The ultimate goal was to rid Europe of Jews because they were considered inferior, and many experiments were conducted by multiple doctors to achieve this

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