Different Countries, Same Crimes
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions” (Primo Levi). There are common people every day who experiment; however, experiments turn evil when they prove genocidal to races. Throughout history, there have been events which most would like to change or forget; likewise, there are events which are repeated, even though the event could be catastrophic in proportions, such as the scientific “experiments” conducted by the Nazi Germany’s Holocaust and The United States’ experiments after 1940. Though the countries are different, both Nazi Germany and The United States conducted inhuman …show more content…
Biased, the Nazis used Gypsies and, according to Elizabeth Yin, “there were 44 experimental subjects who were subject to [three] different test groups: no water, sea water, sea water processes by the Berka method” (“Sea Water Experiment”). The “Berka” method occurs when sea water is filtered through a piece of cloth to remove most of the salt content in the water. This method proved fatal to most of the participants since they were not allowed any food or other water except their specific drink. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Franz Josef Beiglböck, the primary experimenter of the Nazi sea water experiment, forced water into his subjects when they did not. The end result of his experiment was that, as noted by “Sea Water Experiment,” “many of the subjects who received some type if sea water ended up suffering excruciating torture, diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, foaming at the mouth, and in most cases, madness or death” (Yin). With the experiment, many of the subjects licked the freshly mopped floor to get some type of fresh water. If the test subjects did not die during the experiment, they were killed after the experiment concluded. The United States’ CIA conducted torture experiments, code named MK-ULTRA, the most disreputable being Subproject 68. The MK-ULTRA project was CIA paid and run by Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, who studied mind-alternating substances. According to Robert Wabash, “the victims forgot how to talk, forgot about their parents, and suffered serious amnesia. And all of this was performed on Canadian citizens because the CIA wasn’t willing to risk such operations on Americans” (“The 13”). Experimenting on people other than Americans, the CIA reveals its unwillingness to test on its own people,
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions” (Primo Levi). There are common people every day who experiment; however, experiments turn evil when they prove genocidal to races. Throughout history, there have been events which most would like to change or forget; likewise, there are events which are repeated, even though the event could be catastrophic in proportions, such as the scientific “experiments” conducted by the Nazi Germany’s Holocaust and The United States’ experiments after 1940. Though the countries are different, both Nazi Germany and The United States conducted inhuman …show more content…
Biased, the Nazis used Gypsies and, according to Elizabeth Yin, “there were 44 experimental subjects who were subject to [three] different test groups: no water, sea water, sea water processes by the Berka method” (“Sea Water Experiment”). The “Berka” method occurs when sea water is filtered through a piece of cloth to remove most of the salt content in the water. This method proved fatal to most of the participants since they were not allowed any food or other water except their specific drink. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Franz Josef Beiglböck, the primary experimenter of the Nazi sea water experiment, forced water into his subjects when they did not. The end result of his experiment was that, as noted by “Sea Water Experiment,” “many of the subjects who received some type if sea water ended up suffering excruciating torture, diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, foaming at the mouth, and in most cases, madness or death” (Yin). With the experiment, many of the subjects licked the freshly mopped floor to get some type of fresh water. If the test subjects did not die during the experiment, they were killed after the experiment concluded. The United States’ CIA conducted torture experiments, code named MK-ULTRA, the most disreputable being Subproject 68. The MK-ULTRA project was CIA paid and run by Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, who studied mind-alternating substances. According to Robert Wabash, “the victims forgot how to talk, forgot about their parents, and suffered serious amnesia. And all of this was performed on Canadian citizens because the CIA wasn’t willing to risk such operations on Americans” (“The 13”). Experimenting on people other than Americans, the CIA reveals its unwillingness to test on its own people,