Medical Experiments during the Holocaust By Makayla Meyer

Medical Experiments during the Holocaust By: Makayla Meyer

High Altitude • 1942 at Dachau. • German pilots. • Low pressure chambers, altitudes as high as 68, 000 feet high. • Rasher was said to have dissected his victim’s brains.

Freezing • Icy water for several hours at a time until body temp reached 79 degrees internally. • Aviator suits. • Crippled in pain. • About 100 prisoners died.

Bone, muscle, and joint transplants • • • Ravensbruck concentration camp. War injuries. Amputees and other victims. Excruciating pain. Permanent disability.

Jadwiga Dzido • • Inflicted with battle like wound. Infected with bacteria. Agitate wound. Test medicines.

Twins • • • Josef Mengele - Auschwitz. Surgeries without anesthesia. Blood transfusions. Sex change. Removal of organs and limbs. Eye color. Josef Mengele

More about twins • A female twin would be artificially inseminated from another twin. • If the mother only gave birth to one child, it was killed. • Cases of stove and starvation. • Monsters and animals

Sea Water • Roughly 90 gypsies. • Deprived of food and forced to drink sea water. • Severe pain and serious bodily injury.

After Experiments There was never any anesthesia or any pain killers used at any time. The victims were never considered as people. In the Nazi’s eyes they were nobody.

Sources • • • http: //www. pbs. org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/experiside. html http: //www. ushmm. org/wlc/en/article. php? Module. Id=10005168 http: //www. jewishvirtuallibrary. org/jsource/Holocaust/medtoc. html http: //www. auschwitz. dk/doctors. htm http: //www. deathcamps. info/Experiments/experiments. htm http: //remember. org/educate/medexp. html