Informative Essay: The Four Doctors Of The Holocaust

Doctors of the Holocaust On January 30th, 1933, The Holocaust began in Germany by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. The Nazis came to power in 1933, believing that the German race was “superior” to the Jewish who were deemed “inferior” and were targeted as a threat to the community of Germany. With the word Holocaust meaning “sacrifice by fire”, the Jewish race was soon after taken over and sent to multiple work or concentration camps throughout the country. In those camps, some doctors performed horrific experiments and tests on the victims, and we will be revealing what all they did during that twelve year period.
I’m going to address who the four main doctors were and what experiments they did on their victims. First and most notable was Dr. Josef Mengele, who was the main conductor of extermination at Auschwitz on an industrial scale. He killed more than three million Jewish people by gassing, starvation, shooting and burning. Being the chief provider for the gas chambers, he solved the minor problem of lice in a cell block by gassing all 750 …show more content…
Carl Clauberg, who injected chemicals into the wombs of thousands of Jewish and Gypsy women. These injections sterilized the women causing inflamed ovaries, excruciating pain, bursting spasms in the stomach, and bleeding. Men and women were placed constantly under x-ray machines to scan their sexual organs, after the tests were over they were dead or immediately gassed due to the radiation burns.
The third doctor was Dr. Herta Oberheuser, she took part in the most gruesome and painful experiments that were done on children. These experiments included injecting the victims with oil and evipan, which killed them in three to five minutes to die, staying alive until the last second. The other experiment included her inflicting wounds on victims to imitate the wounds on German soldiers in the war, then rubbing foreign objects like glass, sawdust, wood, dirt, and rusty nails into the