Nazi Experimentation Research Paper Elie Wiesel once said, “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own source of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.” During the Holocaust, this notion was ignored and many people from different ethnicities, sexualities, and ages were used as objects or even lab rats. The Nazi proceeded in killing, torturing, and experimenting on these “objects,” because they were considered unfit for life. Nazi doctors advanced in epidemiological study, but their actions are not vindicated by the means of the torture, mutilation, and violation of people, through human experimentation. Experimentation on humans
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The victims were also malnourished, humiliated, and treated like animals. Many of the concentration camp prisoners camp prisoners were forced into experiments, became animals as their trauma reduced them to having an inability to speak, talk, or even react. Their humane senses and instincts have been reduced to psychomotor retardation, in which they had a decrease of thought and a reduction of physical movements. One of these inhumane experiments was called the “seawater experiment.” Nazi doctors, including Dr. Hans Eppinger, wanted to discover a way for saltwater to become drinkable. This was mainly so the German soldiers could survive on saltwater, instead of potable water on the battlefield. 90 Gypsies in the Dachau concentration camp were forced to drink saltwater and were also deprived of food. This experiment led the Gypsies to become dehydrated. The Gypsies admitted to have licked the floors after they were mopped to get an ounce of fresh water. The Gypsies also received enormous pain and suffering from serious body injury caused by the experiment. In many concentration camps, Nazi doctors forcibly sterilized thousands of prisoners. These prisoners suffered physical and mental trauma. This experiment was created to find an efficient way to …show more content…
It is in the right mind to believe that with each experiment, further innovations to improve the wellbeing of people are to occur. The Nazis’ experiments however, prove that such rationality is naïve and incorrect. The Nazis mutilated, tortured, experimented, and killed people for the sake of advancing war efforts to produce even more deaths. These people were racially picked by the Nazis and were victims of their anti-Semitism. Anyone who were not part of the Aryan "master race" ideal, created by the Nazis were prejudiced and exterminated in concentration camps. Although some data can be gather that has benefited society, most of the data were failures and led to the deaths of many Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, war prisoners, and babies. The Nazis didn’t want just want results for how to save German soldiers from diseases or injuries on the battlefield; they wanted results to find an efficient way to exterminate the unfit – a process known as Operation
The victims were also malnourished, humiliated, and treated like animals. Many of the concentration camp prisoners camp prisoners were forced into experiments, became animals as their trauma reduced them to having an inability to speak, talk, or even react. Their humane senses and instincts have been reduced to psychomotor retardation, in which they had a decrease of thought and a reduction of physical movements. One of these inhumane experiments was called the “seawater experiment.” Nazi doctors, including Dr. Hans Eppinger, wanted to discover a way for saltwater to become drinkable. This was mainly so the German soldiers could survive on saltwater, instead of potable water on the battlefield. 90 Gypsies in the Dachau concentration camp were forced to drink saltwater and were also deprived of food. This experiment led the Gypsies to become dehydrated. The Gypsies admitted to have licked the floors after they were mopped to get an ounce of fresh water. The Gypsies also received enormous pain and suffering from serious body injury caused by the experiment. In many concentration camps, Nazi doctors forcibly sterilized thousands of prisoners. These prisoners suffered physical and mental trauma. This experiment was created to find an efficient way to …show more content…
It is in the right mind to believe that with each experiment, further innovations to improve the wellbeing of people are to occur. The Nazis’ experiments however, prove that such rationality is naïve and incorrect. The Nazis mutilated, tortured, experimented, and killed people for the sake of advancing war efforts to produce even more deaths. These people were racially picked by the Nazis and were victims of their anti-Semitism. Anyone who were not part of the Aryan "master race" ideal, created by the Nazis were prejudiced and exterminated in concentration camps. Although some data can be gather that has benefited society, most of the data were failures and led to the deaths of many Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, war prisoners, and babies. The Nazis didn’t want just want results for how to save German soldiers from diseases or injuries on the battlefield; they wanted results to find an efficient way to exterminate the unfit – a process known as Operation