The Dachau Hypothermia Experiments

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Unethical research has no meaning for its purpose. Why conduct an experiment with no means to have progress as an outcome. For over nearly 50 years there has been raised eyebrows about whether not someone could use information gained from Nazi experimentation on concentration camp victims. This unethical research experiment is portrayed in The Dachau Hypothermia Experiments. These victims were captured Russian soldiers (the Nazis wondered whether their genetics gave them superior resistance to cold) and members of a concentration camp located in Upper Bacaria, Southern Germany. Between the years 1933 and 1946, more than 3.5 million Germans were imprisoned in such a prison for political reasons.

In 1941, the aerial warfare branch of the German

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