Nazi Human Experiments

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This report is over human experiments conducted by various governments over several decades. The governments involved include, but are not limited to, the Nazis, the soviets and even America. Some of these experiments that were tested on these people were very disgusting and extremely cruel.
The Nazis performed some of the most horrific experiments of anyone. The Auschwitz under the direction of Dr. Eduard wirths had inmates selected to certain experiments which were designed to help the Germans. The Nazis performed an experiment on twins in the camp to see if the eugenics and genetics affected their mood and or their attitude. The leader of this experiment was Dr. Josef Mengele, he has performed over 1,500 of these experiments on imprisoned twins, but there are some ups and downs about the experiment because there have only been fewer than 200 twins survived the study. The Luftwaffe conducted an experiment on how to treat hypothermia in the early 1940s. The way they conducted the experiment was they would fill a tank full of ice and water; they put the victim in it for up to three hours. During July 1942 to September 1943, some experiments would have pretty bad wounds on the subjects there would be victims infected with such as streptococcus, gas gangrene, and tetanus. The Nazis are a group that didn’t care about anyone but themselves,
There was a unit called unit 731 committed by the commander shiro Ishii and a couple of others under his command. The Nazis would deliberately infect prisoners with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape.
The soviets tested several deadly poisons on prisoners in the gulag like mustard gas, ricin, digitoxin and several others. The soviets wanted and tried hard to find a tasteless and...

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...anged a lot over the past ten years much less or the past 70 years, but there is no explanation to why they just kept “testing” it on so many other people and it may have been an experiment but it was a failed experiment but one good thing is that there is not one existing file on project (MK-ULTRA).
The government has done some disturbing things in the past and it makes me wonder what our government really is. The real reason I wonder is because the drug (LSD) and (MK-ULTRA) were experimented less than 70 years ago. I honestly don’t understand what the government did that for; there is no real reason why anyone should have to go through that, that would be something I would never in my life time want to experience and I don’t think any other human being should have to either.

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