Brutal Nazi Medical Experiments & Nazi Doctors
- Josef Mengele - Karl Gebhardt - Herta Oberheuser...

2 April 2022

Category: World War 2 Other

20 August, 1947, Luneberg, Germany. After the outbreak of the WW2, thousands of prisoners became subjects of Nazi medical experiments. These experiments were often conducted without anesthesia and had 3 main objectives: to ensure the survival of German military personnel, test new drugs and treatments and to advance racial ideology.

In this video, we will talk about: high-altitude experiments; freezing experiment to treat hypothermia which occurs when the body temperature drops, sea water experiments; experiments which tested new drugs and treatments for malaria; experiments which tested immunization compounds and serums for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases including malaria, typhus or tuberculosis; sulfonamide experiments; experiments with removing and damaging nerves, muscles, and bones in the legs to see if they would regenerate & transplantations; involuntary sterilization of persons suffering from diseases including schizophrenia, alcohol abuse, insanity, blindness or deafness; sterilization experiments on the inmates. At Auschwitz and Ravensbrück they tried to develop a sterilization method which would require a minimum of time and effort and would be suitable for sterilizing millions of people.

Mengele & identical twins experiments

The most infamous Nazi doctor was Josef Mengele who performed his experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele was mainly interested in identical twins. The reason probably was that he wanted to increase the number of new-born racially desirable Aryan twins. Mengele even took part in selections of arriving prisoners because he was looking for twins to conduct medical experiments on them. His subjects, mostly children, were often better fed and housed than the other prisoners and he presented them with sweets and introduced himself as “uncle Mengele “. However, his experiments which followed were incredibly brutal. They included infecting one twin with typhus or some other disease and transfusing the blood of one twin into the other or performing unnecessary amputation of limbs on them.

Another Mengele’s obsession was with dwarfs and people with physical disabilities. He tried to treat them with X rays and unnecessary drugs causing them incredible pain and death. After the war, Karl Gebhardt and Waldemar Hoven faced justice at the Nuremberg Doctor’s trial and Claus Schilling at Dachau trial. They were all sentenced to death by hanging. Fritz Fischer and Herta Oberheuser were imprisoned. However, Josef Mengele never faced justice for his crimes. He lived as a free man in Brazil where he died in 1979 after suffering a stroke while swimming.

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