The Role Of Doctors In The Holocaust

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Doctors of the Holocaust

The doctors of the holocaust had so many roles and responsibilities, some of the names are Dr.Mengele, Dr. Heim, Dr. Clauberg, Dr. Schumann, and the last one is Dr. Oberheuser. They all had an important role to fill in and accomplish their duties in the holocaust. The holocaust would not have happened if there were no doctors. Well it could have but it would not have been that bad.
One of the most viscous doctors of the holocaust was Dr. Mengele, he was a nazi doctor at the extermination camps. He would select prisoners to execute them in the gas chambers, and as well as experiments on inmates against their will. Mengele was the eldest son of Karl Mengele, in 1935 he earned Ph.D. in physical anthropology in the university
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Clauberg, he was given block ten with several hundreds of Jewish women, he was a German who was a medical doctor who performed many experiments on Jewish people. The reason for the experiments were to develop a method capable of sterilizing millions of people within minimum time and effort. He would indicate that using x-rays on 3,000-4,000 jews could be castrated daily and then be put to work. He as well conduced the insemination of 300 women at the Auschwitz, he would taunt them by saying he had inseminated them with animal sperm and their babies would be monsters (Dirkdeklein.net forgotten …show more content…
Schumann which was a doctor in the Auschwitz, in charge of block ten. He started sterilizing girls ages of 14-18 years old with radiation he also performed castrations. He himself was not so good health wise a few years after the holocaust he admitted that he had committed horrible things in Auschwitz. He had some heart problems and overall his state of health would be so bad that he was unable to stand trial which he was released in 1972 knowing he was not going to be persecuted and later on died 1983(dedokwerker)
The fifth and last doctor is Dr. Oberheuser she was so evil. She worked in the camps under the supervision of Dr. Karl Gebhardt. Dr. Oberheuser performed some of the most gruesome and painful medical procedures such as bone transplant conducted by 86 women. She would kill healthy children with oil and evipan injections, she would then remove their limbs and vital organs. The time of injection to death is 3-5mins. She was later sentenced to 20 yrs. in jail but it ended up being reduced to 10 yrs. she was released in 1952 then died in 1978(Dirkdeklein "the

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