Inhumany In The Holocaust

During World War II, the holocaust happened of the mass genocide of the Jews. There are people that are to be looked up to and admired. In many ways there are Gods, right here on earth with us. People put the hope and faith in doctors hoping they can do miracles. Throughout history, doctors have performed many wonders, however, there were some doctors that betrayed this belief and peoples trust. Doctors participated in such research projects and experiments that held people against their will to death through experiment. These people were thought to be inferior to the human race. Many practices became widely accepted and embraced by the Germans from the Nazi’s propaganda. The Nazis also performed cruel medical experiments on Jewish prisoners, both living and …show more content…
Imagine being forced outside naked in the extremely cold conditions, forced to stay outside, waiting to see if you were going to stay alive or get chosen to get sent to the gas chambers. Then imagine having your internal secretion of the reproductive system being destroyed by X-rays so strong. This is just one of horrendous “medical” experiments that was performed in the Holocaust. There is a big difference between somebody who does not want to commit crimes and somebody who does not know how to do it. Mental and physical inhumany were acts committed not only at Auschwitz but at every death camps established during the Holocaust. The fact that in the gloomy human cemetery of Auschwitz a health service was organized, a hospital and dispensary for prisoners, seems at first sight to be something absolutely amazing. Since it was the purpose of the camp to serve as an instrument of mass extermination, why then that concern for the health of the prisoners? (Fertig, 1986) An estimated 12 million people died in the holocaust, 6 million of them were