NAZI Medical Experiments

Background

Categories of Medical Experiments

Category 1

Nazi Ideolody

Category 2

Dr.Josef Mengele

Category 3

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• WW 2 began in 1939-1945 and was considered the deadliest and most destructive war in human history.

NAZI Medical Experiments

• There are different categories of medical experiments category 1, category 2 and a category 3.

• The first category consisted of experiments aimed at facilitating the survival of Axis military personnel.

• Nazism is a variety of another totalitarian ideology fascism.The political goal of both ideologies is to establish a totalitarian state where the government is completely dominate the individual.

• The second category consisted of experimentation aimed at developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for illness and injury.

• The third category of experiments was sought to advance the racial and ideological tenets of the Nazi worldview.

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• How does this relate to the Jews?

• Almost every country was going through The Great Depression. Over 50 Nations were fighting and around 100 Million soldiers were deployed.

• Dr.Mengele was the chief provider for the gas chambers. He did a number of medical experiments of horror at Auschwitz using mainly twins.
• Sadly those weren't his only victims, he had countless victims who died in the name of Nazi science.

• There were three categories that doctors worked under to produce certain results, but each category's results had something to do with the preservation of the Third Reich.

• Examples would be pressure experiments and freezing experiments.

• A characteristic of Nazism is to make a common enemy (Jews,Gypies,Free Masons, ect)

• This was Josef Mengele's category of work.

• Test subjects were usually prisoners of the concentration camps.

Job Requirments

Mengele's Experiments

Dr.Herta Oberheuser

Oberheuser's Experiments

Dr. Karl Brandt

Early Life

Dr. Carl Clauberg

Clauberg's Experiments

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Early Life

• In 1943 and 1944 Clauberg was authorized by SS Chief Heinrich Himmler to conduct experiments at Auschwitz to help develop a method of mass sterilization.

• She was a Dermatologist, Medical Doctor, Surgical assistant at the Hohenlychen Sanatoria and at Ravenbruck Women's Concentration Camp.
• She was an accomplished doctor and well respected.

• Dr. Brandt was Hitler's personal physician and was appointed Reich Commissioner for Sanitation and Health. This was the highest Reich authorized by Hitler.
• He was authorized to issue instructions to the medical organizations of the government, to the party and armed forces.

• After Mengele was injured during a campaign he returened to Germany to study Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics under his mentor.
• In April of 1943, he recieved a promotion to the rank of SS captain; this advancement shortly preceded Mengele' s transfer to Auschwits on May 30,1943

• Dr. Clauberg injected chemical substances into the wombs of thousands of jewish women.
• Early in his career as a research gynecologist studied treatments to help infertile women conceive. Ironicly during the Nazi power he help ensure that jewish women couldn't have children.

• Karl was born in Muhlhausen, Germany.
• He became a medical doctor in 1928.
• He joined the NSDAP in January 1932 and joined the SS in July 1934.
• He received regular promotions from the SS and by January 1934 Brandt was a Major General in the Nazi Party.

• She was born May 15,1911 and died January 24,1978
• Dr. Oberheuser conducted some of the most gruesome and painful medical experiments.
• Her work consisted mainly of deliberately inflicting wounds on subjects.
• She also liked to kill children with oil and evipan injections. She was the only female defendant in the medical trial against the Nazi Doctors.

• Josef was born March 16th,1911 in Grunsberg, Germany. He was the eldest of 5 children.
• In 1935 Mengele earned a Ph.D in Physcial Anthropology from the University of Munich. In January 1937 he became an assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, a leading scientist know for research on twins.

• Dr. Oberheuser killed children by evipan injections and oil. After she would remove their limbs and vital organs.
• The T.O.D (time of death) between injections and death was between 3-5 minutes with the person being fully conscious until the last moment.
• Her specialty was purposely inflicting wounds on subjects that simulate the wounds of German soldiers.

• Dr. Mengele had a fascination with twins specifically identical twins. Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of children in attempt to change their eye color.
• He preformed both physical and pyschological surgeries preformed without anesthesia, blood transfusions between the twins.
• He also injected with lethal germs, did sex change operations, removed organs and limbs and did incestuous impregnations.
• Of the some 3,000 twins he experimented on only a few survived.

• Using 700 mostly Jewish women as subjects, he injected toxins into the uterus causing severe pain and sometimes death.

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Brandt's Experiments

Genetic Experiment

Sun Lamp Experiments

Freezing Experiments

Twins Experiments

• The twins were allowed to keep their hair and were often treated better than other prisoners.

• These experiments consisted of victims being placed under sun lamps which were so hot they would burn the skin.

• He participated in the euthanasia program which systematically execution of the aged, insane, incurably ill or deformed children by gas of lethal injections.
• They were often seen as "useless eaters" and a burden to the German war machine.
• The victims often lived in nursing homes, hospitals and asylums.

• This wasn't so much as an experiment, but it was a plan.
• The new rules required all SS soldiers to submit to general testing before marriage to insure racial purity.
• The goal of racial purity was to have blonde hair and have blue eyes.

• After all the living data was collected both twins would be killed by a single injection of chloroform to the heart.

• Freezing/Hypothermia exeriments were conducted for the Nazi high command.
• The experiments were conducted mainly to help the soldiers who were suffering in the eastern front.
• The soldiers were ill prepared for the bitter cold

• This was often used as punishment.

• It was extremely important that the twins died at the exact same time.