The Mengele Experiments In Nazi Germany

The Mengele Experiments took place in Nazi Germany during World War II, starting in 1943. The main person who conducted the experiments was Dr. Mengele. He did experiments mainly involving identical twins due to the identical genetic material. Many of his experiments were unethical and were seen as crimes against humanity (Muller-Hill, 2001). This experiment that was performed in Nazi Germany was unethical in many ways. A few ways was the lack of informed consent, and protection of the patients.

One important thing that comes with doing psychological research is getting consent from the participant to do the research. A example of how he did not have informed consent was when identical twins were taken from the trains against their will and sent to the …show more content…
When Mengele did his experiments he would do a experiment on one of the twins and then when the twin died he would kill the other one to compare the bodies for research (Simply Responsive, 2018). This breaks APA guidelines under section 8.09 which looks at care for humans as well as animals when conducting research. Researchers are required to minimize the amount of discomfort the patient is experiencing during the experiment. Another APA guideline that broken under the same section was the failure to provide anesthesia to patients without minimizing the pain and infection during and after surgery. The breaking of these guidelines can be seen throughout Dr. Mengele’s experiments. In the article Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine, Mengele gave lower gastric intestinal examinations to a set of twins without any anesthesia (Simply Responsive, 2018). The twins cried so loud Mengele gagged them. After three weeks the twins were given injections of chloroform to the heart, taking both of their lives in order to dissect them for research (Simply Responsive,