The first known superhuman was a patriotic costumed “mega-soldier” who fought for the Allies on the front lines in Europe allegedly created by scientific means (Trevizo 2). Super humans are defined as entities with intelligence or physical capabilities far exceeding human standards (Cape 3). Super humans, individuals with extraordinary physical or mental capabilities, really do exist (Trevizo 1).
Unknown to the Allies, the German "super-soldier" program would successfully create super humans, although not in time to stop the Allied victory. The program stemmed from research on a large meteorite unearthed in Tibet in 1935. The meteorite, later captured by American forces and nicknamed "the Rock," emanated a strange form of radiation that, when exposed to a human fetus, could result in that child developing superpowers later in life. Only a small percentage of the subjects developed powers, with the rest either being stillborn or dying soon after birth due to massive physical defects (Trevizo 2).
Hundreds of pregnant women from born of Lebanese ancestry were exposed in this manner, and while the Germans were able to manifest seventeen super humans, none of the children exhibited their powers before the end of the war. The seventeen children were adopted by military families in the United States, where they were raised as Americans and routinely experimented upon by government scientists.
After the Second World War, American scientists continued this program of testing on subjects of Lebanese ancestry in secret, over fears that the public would not allow so many human fetuses to die or be malformed in testing. Using an existing study on syphilis treatments in Alabama, the American program exposed the Rock to hundreds o...
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The T4 program was not the beginning of Germany’s effort to reach a super race. Leading up to the war Hitler enacted the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases” in the year of 1933. The law called for the sterilization of anyone that had any hereditary illnesses. The list of hereditary illnesses included: “schizophrenia, epilepsy, senile disorders, therapy resistant paralysis and syphilitic diseases, retardation, encephalitis, Huntington’s chorea and other neurological conditions.” (History Place) This law was enforced by opening 200 genetic health courts that would analyze the medical records of individuals and decide if they were to be sterilized or not. The sterilization of people usually involved the use of drugs, x-rays, or uterine irritants. Dr. Horst Schumann did a lot of these experiments with sterilization at Auschwitz, where he would take a group of men/women and would expose them to x-rays. Most of his experiments with x-rays were disappointing but he kept using this method. After he subjected his subjects to x...
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The main results that doctors were trying to obtain from this experiment was to gain information about how African Americans men’s bodies reacted to syphilis. During the 1930’s, society believed that black men were inferior to white men, so diseases were supposed to affect differently black men. This study in particular, the participants were not informed about the capacity that this disease could damage their human system and they were not viewed as a human being and they were used as lab rat. Furthermore, one of the doctors who were involved in this experiment Dr. Raymond Vonderlehr used the term “necropsy” that is an autopsy performed on animals when speaking about the participants of this experiment (Mananda R-G, 2012).
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...ny brought in Africans to help fight the war and some of these Africans married German women and had children. These children were labeled as ‘Rhineland Bastards.’ ‘Hitler said he would eliminate all the children born of African-German descent because he considered them an “insult” to the German nation’ (Non-Jewish Victims). The Nazi Party set up another secret group to ‘sterilize’ the children in hospitals. They would pull kids out of school and sometimes, without their parents’ knowledge. In all, there were only about 400 children ‘sterilized’ throughout the holocaust.
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