How Did Hitler Use Medical Experiments

Medical Experimentation in Nazi Camps A long-standing hatred of the Jews came to a turning point when Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Hitler had a “final solution” for the Jews which entailed extermination. Dachau opened March 1933 and the first people interred were political opponents of the Nazis. These prisoners were Communists, Social Democrats, and others who had been tried in a court. Later Dachau was a model for other concentration camps and served to school the SS. The medical experiments at concentration camps were an attempt to better the Aryan race and were conducted at the camps. The experimentation was so horrifying doctors in recent times have declined to use the data gathered by Nazi physicians to help …show more content…
Some women died of the injection and some were killed for an autopsy to discover if the procedure worked. Caladium seguinum was used orally and injected because Dr. Madaus had said it would bring about sterilization.5 A document was sent to Himmler from Viktor Brack about x-ray sterilization. It stated the x-ray dosages would destroy the inner secretions of the ovaries and testicles. The dosages had to be so high that castration occurred and lesser dosages would be temporary. Brack said in the document the symptoms would be the cessation of menstruation, menopause, changes in body hair, and changes in metabolism.6 He informed Himmler the men needed a dosage of 500-600 r for two minutes and women needed 300-350 r for three minutes.7 This amount of x-rays is a median lethal dose for x-rays absorbed in the human body. Surgical operations were experimented with to see if sexually abnormal prisoners at Buchenwald would have virility increased by transplantation of glands.8 Opposition to this forced sterilization was almost non-existent. The Catholic Church disapproved but only asked …show more content…
These tests were designed to test the human endurance and existence at high altitudes without oxygen. These tests were an endeavor to duplicate the conditions a German pilot could encounter when falling through space without a parachute or oxygen. Four different tests made up this experiment. The first test was a slow descent without oxygen, this was to simulate descent with the parachute open; the second test was a slow descent with oxygen, this was to simulate a descent with an open parachute; the third test was falling without oxygen, simulating a free fall before the chute opened; and the last was falling with oxygen, this was a free fall with the chute still undeployed.