Mrs. Johnson
Honors Biology / 6th Period
12/16/14
Doctors
When becoming a doctor you are to take an oath to basically place your patient’s interests before your own, protect and treat all patients equally, and to respect patient’s rights to make decisions. This oath was disobeyed by Nazi doctors and night doctors. The Nazi doctors contravened this oath by killing the people that were “unworthy of life”. The night doctors defied this oath by stealing bodies to perform scientific tests on. Both doctors not only broke this oath that pertains to their lifelong profession but they also disregarded common rights that all human beings deserve. There were 23 German physicians and administrators that were involved in the Nazi doctor scam. These Germans were the 23 that had proceedings against them due to their participation in crimes against humanity. This …show more content…
One specific crime they did freezing the victims. They would either freeze them by putting them in ice water or put the person outside naked in sub-zero temperatures. Putting the body in the ice was the fastest way to lower the body temperature. After testing it, they concluded that the person died once the temperature dropped to 25 degrees Celsius. With the second method they would place the person on a stretcher and take the person outside naked. The winters in Auschwitz fit very well for this experiment. Another experiment they used was warming experiments which was as painful as the freezing experiments. One experiment they did was taking the person and placing them under sun lamps that were so hot they burned the skin. Numerous victims died with this next experiment, it was one of the best methods. They placed the person in warm water and slowly increased the temperature which resulted in many dead victims due to quickly warming up the