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During times of war prisoners were treated with torture and violence. The medical experiments performed on the imprisoned Jews by the Nazis during World War I affected them physically and psychologically. Prisoners were taken into labs for numerous torturous involuntary so-called medical experiments many times resulting in death, where Doctor Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death" would perform gruesome medical experiments such as artificial insemination, high altitude, freezing experiments,…

Who was Josef Mengele? Josef Mengele was an SS officer and physician at the famous concentration camp Auschwitz. Mengele is responsible for thousands of murders alone, being a selector (a Nazi who decided which prisoners would be gassed and which prisoners would die by forced labor) and being the physician for the camp. He experimented on prisoners as if they were lifeless human beings, with no remorse. Josef Mengele was born March 16th, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. In 1935 he earned his Ph.D.…

George Stone is my name but in this environment it really doesn't matter. The only thing I care about is staying alive. I am a Jew that's been taken to one of many concentration camps. I’ve been here for 4 months, nothing here is pleasant. People are dying every day and the smell of death lingers in almost every corner. I have 12 hours shifts where I move sandbags from one place to another, It’s been weakening my body drastically. I dream that I wake up and I everything would be back to normal…

Eugenics and The Island of Dr. Moreau Both Dr. Moreau and the Nazi party, along with many others have tried to understand the Theory of Darwinism and the important role that eugenics can play. The thoughts of a so-called master race came directly from this theory. The Nazi party believed that human behavior was directly related and somehow linked to the physical traits such as race. This was the reason for eugenics. The Nazi’s used this theory as an excuse to kill millions of innocent men,…

Celeste Davis Mrs. Reynolds Adv Hon English 16 February 2017 Eva Mozes Kor: A Holocaust Survivor Eva Mozes Kor survived one of the most terrifying events in history--the Holocaust, the genocidal killing of millions of people targeted by Nazi Germany. In March 1944, soldiers forced Eva, her twin sister, Miriam, and their family away from their home in Romania. They were deported to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Eva and Miriam were…

- Freezing and/or Hypothermia was very popular and in high command by the Nazis, these experiments were divided into two categories the first was how long it would take for the victim to freeze to death the second was how to resuscitate (revive someone from unconsciousness or apparent death.) the frozen victim.(http://remember.org) there was two main ways to freeze the person either to be placed outside in sub zero degree weather or to be placed in a ice vat, the fastest and easiest way was the…

Schindler’s List, written by Thomas Keneally and originally published in 1982, is the true story of a German industrialist named Oskar Schindler, who spared the lives of over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust. During the war, Schindler, his shrewd and gregarious nature accompanying him, was able to prevent the ends of many Jews by convincing officials they were indispensable to the running of his enamelware factory. The name of the novel is derived from the lists he and others created to…

Hitler not only wanted to educate single women, but he also wanted to educate the children of Nazi Germany on becoming a good citizen. Schools completed this task by teaching blood purity. Having blood purity meant that citizens obtained from mixed marriages and sexual relations with races that Germany deemed inferior. This also meant that having children with two different backgrounds was discouraged as well (Blood Purity). Teaching blood purity was important to the Germans because it helped…

Nazi Experimentation During WW2 many medical experiments were conducted on concentration camp prisoners. One of the most famously known of the medical staff at the concentration camps was Josef Mengele. Josef was sometimes referred to as the “Angel of Death” or the “White Angel” because of how strict he was when deciding who he would take with him. Josef was also known for conducting painstaking and typically deadly experiments on concentration camp prisoners (Josef Mengele). One Experiment was…

Helmuth, through the years, saw the cruelty of the Nazis and at first was able to shrug it off. Helmuth was truly convinced to take action against the Nazis when he read the book spirit and action. Up to that point he had already been breaking laws that were punishable by death, but he made his choice to take action to help others learn the truth instead of just himself. Helmuth saw wrong that needed to be fixed, while others like his relatives would turn a blind eye and say, “silence is how we…