During times of war prisoners were treated with torture and violence. The medical experiments performed on the imprisoned Jews by the Nazis during World War I affected them physically and psychologically. Prisoners were taken into labs for numerous torturous involuntary so-called medical experiments many times resulting in death, where Doctor Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death" would perform gruesome medical experiments such as artificial insemination, high altitude, freezing experiments, twin experimentation, and transplant experiments. There were also other torture methods of the war. Did we learn anything from these horrendous experiments or were they simply torturous without reason? Heinrich Himmler heard that Dr. Carl Clauberg
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These experiments also took place at Dachau amd were conducted by Sigmund Rascher and others. These experiments consisted of placing prisoners into vats of ice cold water, for long periods of time, naked. Or they would take the test subjects outside in the extreme cold and strap them down naked. As they started suffering to their death, the doctors would make note of their changes in heart rate, temperature of their body, and muscle reflexes. When a prisoners internal body temperature decreased to a certain number, the doctors tried to rewarm them using many types of methods such as sleeping bags or scorching hot baths. All test subjects died from this …show more content…
The "Angel of Death", Doctor Josef Mengele, will have a lasting impact in our history and people young and old will continue to learn of his gruesome experiments and have sympathy for these innocent people. The experiments on the innocent prisoners of the holocaust by the Nazis all resulted in death or suffering of some kind, and the Japanese' punishments on prisoners of war were sometimes more cruel than death. Little data is used today for college study from the Nazi medical experiments. It is very unlikely for anything like this to happen ever again because of this. Even the diminutive fragment of "good" that came from this, does not nearly make the evil obsolete. Millions of innocent people suffered, from people old to young, these were truly tragic events that will live on in our history
These experiments also took place at Dachau amd were conducted by Sigmund Rascher and others. These experiments consisted of placing prisoners into vats of ice cold water, for long periods of time, naked. Or they would take the test subjects outside in the extreme cold and strap them down naked. As they started suffering to their death, the doctors would make note of their changes in heart rate, temperature of their body, and muscle reflexes. When a prisoners internal body temperature decreased to a certain number, the doctors tried to rewarm them using many types of methods such as sleeping bags or scorching hot baths. All test subjects died from this …show more content…
The "Angel of Death", Doctor Josef Mengele, will have a lasting impact in our history and people young and old will continue to learn of his gruesome experiments and have sympathy for these innocent people. The experiments on the innocent prisoners of the holocaust by the Nazis all resulted in death or suffering of some kind, and the Japanese' punishments on prisoners of war were sometimes more cruel than death. Little data is used today for college study from the Nazi medical experiments. It is very unlikely for anything like this to happen ever again because of this. Even the diminutive fragment of "good" that came from this, does not nearly make the evil obsolete. Millions of innocent people suffered, from people old to young, these were truly tragic events that will live on in our history