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How would you feel if something was taken from your body without your consent or if an experiment was performed on you without your consent? Many times while people are in the operating room under anesthesia doctors take things from them, calls, blood samples, etc. and most of the time they never find out until it’s too late. People are even experimented on without giving permission, experiments that are so gruesome you can’t even imagine. Taking things or performing experiments on humans…

Nazi Medical Experiments “She spoke to me in an angels voice,” Ellias remembered. The Jewish doctor urged her, “You are young and can live; your child cannot live.” The doctor gave Ellias morphine and she injected and killed her baby. Doctor Mengele returned the following day. “He didn't want me,” Ellias recounts, “He wanted the child, but he couldn't find the corpse among the pile of corpses outside the barracks,” (Broder). The Nazi party ruled over Germany in World War Two and horrific…

March 20, 1933 Dachau concentration officially opens. Dachau was established 5 weeks after Adolph Hitler became the German Chancellor. Dachau originally housed WW1 munitions factories, but with a new war beginning a need for a camp to house its first 5,000 prisoners took precedence. Its original purpose was to house those that apposed the new regime such as German communist and Social Democrats. Concentration camps are synonymous with horror stories and death. Though Dachau certainly was not…

A key point to arts within social practice is the type of impact it produces on its surroundings and how. Aesthetic art sees no importance in the feelings it produces within its spectators, but success within social practices, is measured in the impression it makes on the surroundings that it engages with. Dewey states that “art heightens feeling, the experience is immediately felt to be developing in an intelligent and consummatory manner. It becomes alive with the sense of its own progressive…

Devastated by the loss World War 1 in 1918, Germany fell into a state of unrest and massive unemployment. In this time, the German people turned towards a leader, Adolf Hitler, who embodied strength and promised a more united Germany. This idea of unity and anti-individualistic structure permeated all aspects of a Germany run by the National Socialist Party, including the lives of German citizens, SS Officers, and prisoners. Germans were willing to obey in Nazi Germany because they were acting…

I was an American in a foreign land. I, Justin Cox, was actually living a dream. I was in Germany! So many uncertainties came with moving to another continent. Living in Germany was a great experience for this young man. Leaving the United States of America for my dad’s military deployment didn’t seem fair to me at first. I didn’t want to leave my family and friends. It didn’t take me long to change my outlook. As I look back at my experience my fondest and most vivid memories of living in…

Josef Mengele is known for his infamous experiments on twins in Auschwitz and being a sick human being but few look into his character. By the end of this paper you should know a little bit more about Josef Mengele then you did before. The first question we ask though is, who was his family? Josef Mengele was the oldest of three sons. His two brothers were Karl Mengele Jr. and Alois Mengele. Josef Mengele was born in Gunzburg on March 16, 1911 to Walburga Mengele and Karl Mengele. Josef…

Josef Mengele, known for his strange experiments and obsession with twins. The notorious Dr. Mengele, the one who simply wiped out thousands of lives, with no repentance. His actions are so unbelievably horrible, that it would take everything to forgive him. Dr. Mengele, an intelligent, though a truly evil Nazi Doctor, infamous for his cruel and unusual experiments; Dr. Josef Mengele was the cruelest Nazi Doctor of the Holocaust. Dr. Josef Mengele was an SS officer and physician in the…

Josef Mengele, nicknamed the 'Angel of Death', was a German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz during the second world war. He was a well known doctor responsible for choosing if the victims were to be killed in the gas chambers or to be chosen for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. Mengele used Auschwitz as an opportunity to continue his human studies and research on heredity, using prisoners for human experimentation. He had no interest in the patients health or…

Schindler’s List is a film based on the true story of Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler. Responsible for saving over 1,100 Polish Jews during the Second World War by using them as labor in is kitchenware factory. As the film opens, you get a glimpse of the suave businessman bent on making a fortune as a war profiteer off the backs of Polish slave labor. Initially, Schindler jumps at the chance to exploit cheap Jewish labor in his factory (knowing full and well this is morally wrong)…