FDR and Pearl Harbor

"There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times." Holocaust survivor: Abel Herzberg. The Holocaust was a gruesome time for Jews and Roma, also called Gypsies, during World War II. They were taken from their lives and brutally tortured until they were killed unless they died before the experiments could even take place. The Nazi doctors performed horrific experiments on Jews that would leave them physically and mentally scarred. These heartless doctors would sometimes perform experiments that left numerous Jews disabled or cruelly murdered. The doctors were so cruel that they did not even bury the dead properly; as a matter of fact, they just dumped the bodies into a hole and buried them, or burned them. The doctors performed these experiments on the prisoners at work camps that later became known as death camps. “Nazi doctors conducted as many as 30 different types of experiments on concentration-camp inmates.” (Tyson, 2000) These experiments were divided into three categories.
The first of these categories consisted of improving the health of Nazi military personnel. The officers forced prisoners into high altitude experiments for aviation using low- pressure chambers. This test was to see how the Nazi officers and military personnel would react to parachuting from high altitudes to safety. Doctors would watch as subjects would die from this experiment. One doctor would dissect the brain of the prisoners during this test to find that air bubbles in the veins of the brain were the cause of deaths to many.
Another was a so-called freezing experiment where they used the prisoners to find a treatment for hypothermia. (United States Holocaust memorial Museum, 2013) The freezing experiments were divi...

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...tions to each other or even to transfer parts from one twin to the other: stitching them together, castrating and sterilizing them. He also did experiments on heterochromia; a condition where the irises in the eyes are two different colors. He would inject the eyes of children in attempt to change their eye color. Mengele liked to keep the eyes from his murdered victims. (United States Holocaust memorial Museum, 2013)
Torture and pain is all these prisoners had day after day. They had to live with horrible experiments and death. The doctors did gruesome things to these poor people such as freezing, using a pressure chamber, transplanting organs, and testing new drugs. Tragically, most of the people who participated in these experiments died from this. However, most of those experiments went to good use and gave us information on medical procedures we have today.