Imagine a dark hallway, and there are 20 doors that line it, from each of those doors come screams filled with agony, despair, and mortal anguish. Now imagine that same scene in 1941, the time of World War II (WWII), while their was a war that was being fought, the German party was also imprisoning Jews. The Nazi party has an interesting history to say the least but if you dig deeper into its history you will find example of human cruelty that shall never leave your mind. Everyone knows about the concentration camps that the Nazi’s built to detain the Jews but most don’t know the experiments that went on within their walls. Dachau and Auschwitz are just a few names of the 20,000 concentration camps. These concentration camps are where many
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Auschwitz was one of the first “big” camps to be established, it mainly dealt with the mass processing of Jews that is until, Nazi scientists such as Dr. Carl Glauberg. He is known for his work in trying to sterilize women and men on a mass scale, not one at a time on the operating table.
To do the somewhat insane goal he set out to do he used a mix of chemicals that would inflame women’s and men’s reproductive organs. He would then use the prisoners in block 10 of the camp which contained about 700 men and women. After exposing them to the chemical he would then monitor their progress for about four weeks. After four weeks one of two things could happen either he just did a physical and then went about in sever pain, or he condemned them to death. After death he then performed autopsies on them to find the success rate of his little chemical …show more content…
He later wrote to Himmler, that he has almost perfected his process and that a properly equipped laboratory they could sterilize up to 1,000 women a day. Of course he was only concerned with serialization which would make reproducing none existent. Other scientists worked on a cure for this process but failed, he escaped the prosecution and has never been caught.
What does America have to do with this? The experiments above are only two of the thousands that the Nazis put the people in the concentration camps through, whether you were Jewish, Russian, or a POW, it didn’t matter. Although the experiments broke the ethical scientific and medical codes what we learned from them has been invaluable.
While I am no advocate for the Nazi’s and am saying that they should have done this, I merely look at the cost and the gain. Without the scores of data sheets recovered, the world we know today may as well just be vanished. We would not have half the things on saftey cards if not for the
Auschwitz was one of the first “big” camps to be established, it mainly dealt with the mass processing of Jews that is until, Nazi scientists such as Dr. Carl Glauberg. He is known for his work in trying to sterilize women and men on a mass scale, not one at a time on the operating table.
To do the somewhat insane goal he set out to do he used a mix of chemicals that would inflame women’s and men’s reproductive organs. He would then use the prisoners in block 10 of the camp which contained about 700 men and women. After exposing them to the chemical he would then monitor their progress for about four weeks. After four weeks one of two things could happen either he just did a physical and then went about in sever pain, or he condemned them to death. After death he then performed autopsies on them to find the success rate of his little chemical …show more content…
He later wrote to Himmler, that he has almost perfected his process and that a properly equipped laboratory they could sterilize up to 1,000 women a day. Of course he was only concerned with serialization which would make reproducing none existent. Other scientists worked on a cure for this process but failed, he escaped the prosecution and has never been caught.
What does America have to do with this? The experiments above are only two of the thousands that the Nazis put the people in the concentration camps through, whether you were Jewish, Russian, or a POW, it didn’t matter. Although the experiments broke the ethical scientific and medical codes what we learned from them has been invaluable.
While I am no advocate for the Nazi’s and am saying that they should have done this, I merely look at the cost and the gain. Without the scores of data sheets recovered, the world we know today may as well just be vanished. We would not have half the things on saftey cards if not for the