Holocaust Experiments Research Paper

On January 30, 1933 the Holocaust began, Jews were taken into concentration camps not only to work, but to be puppets where doctors performed numerous experiments. They carried out a series of experiments in the camps from becoming infertile, testing war-injuries, and testing medicines. Most experiments were performed without anesthesia, bringing people to be wishing death because the pain was unbearable. Doctors gained a lot of knowledge from these experiments but they were done in a inhumane way. Why is it so important if it happened 84 years ago? We need to know about what happened in the past so history will not repeat itself. They were innocent people who were being discriminated because of their race.
The racial experimentation according to Jewish Virtual Library was “The Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Disease was promulgated on July 14, 1933” (J.V.L 2008). Therefore, they did not want any babies to be born who could have inherited a genetic disease but in reality they just wanted to wipe out the Jews race. They sterilized more than 200,000 Germans. This experiment was conducted by Dr.Horst Schumann at Auschwitz. He would take groups of men and women and would expose their testicles or ovaries to radiation. After words they would be sent back to work despite having burns or swelling. They …show more content…
One experiment freezed people to replicate the conditions the armies suffered on the Eastern Front which caused hypothermia. The purpose of this experiment was try to find a cure for hypothermia. The experiment started off acording to Remember.org “First, to establish how long it would take to lower the body temperature to death and second how to best resuscitate the frozen victim” (Remember 1995). While doing this they experiment for warming up bodies was done as well they used females to try to warm up the frozen