Nazi Medical Experiments

Nazi experimentation on humans refers to the medical experimentations that the German Nazi regime performed on large numbers of people in the concentration camps during World War II. At Auschwitz, some inmates were selected and became subjects to various experiments which were allegedly designed to help the German military in combat situations, to help the military personnel that had been injured, and to advance the racial ideology that was backed by the Third Reich. Test on twins were performed. They were done in concentration camps and were created to show similarities and differences in genetics and eugenics, and to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated. Over 1500 sets of twins had experiments performed on them by Dr. Josef Mengele, the central leader, fewer than 200 individuals survived the studies. The sets of twins were arranged by age and sex and kept in barracks between the test, which included things such as injecting different chemicals into the eyes of the twins to see if this would change their colors, and also sewing the twins together hoping to create conjoined twins. In 1942, the experiments were conducted to learn how to treat hypothermia. One of the studies forced the subjects to endure a tank of ice water for up to three hours. Another stud had inmates naked in the open for several hours with temperatures below freezing. The experiments assessed different ways of re-warming the survivors.