And for the same, they extracted the bones, and the other said parts from the subjects without even administering anesthesia to the subjects. They wanted to know about the possibilities of bone, muscle and nerve regeneration. Bone, muscle, nerve transplantation- They extracted these parts without administering anesthesia to the prisoners Image source So unsurprisingly, they first let the mustard gas scorch the prisoners and then, they tested the treatment possibilities for the burns.ĥ. They wanted to test the treatments that could heal the burn wounds incurred by Mustard gas. Mustard gas experiments- They first burned the prisoners, then tried to treat their burns, and definitely not out of pity Image source Historians note that the subjects suffered such severe dehydration that they were even observed licking freshly mopped floors in the hope of finding the left traces of drinkable water.Ĥ. For the same, a group of about 90 Romani people were given nothing edible but sea water for approximately 2-3 months. Sea water experiments- The sole food for the prisoners! Image sourceĪt one of the Nazi concentration camps, experiments were conducted to test the effects of sea water on the human body and if it can be made drinkable. There was also a time when the prisoners were shot with poisonous bullets!ģ. In some cases, prisoners were murdered immediately after they consumed the food, in order to officially allow autopsies. They wanted to learn about the efficacy of various poisons and in order to do so, they secretly poisoned the food items of the prisoners, which, of course, resulted in their death. Experiments with poison- To test the potency levels of poisons by shooting the prisoners with poisonous bullets Image source The gruesome act involved injecting dyes in the eyes of twins to see if they changed color and even sewing them together in order to create their own version of conjoined twins!Ģ. And out of this huge number, just about 200 managed to survive the tests.
Josef Mengele was the central leader of the experiments and in the span of one year (1943 to 1944) he experimented on as many as 1,500 sets of twins imprisoned at Auschwitz camp. Twin experiments – They sewed twins! Image source These experiments, or more like medical tortures, more often than not resulted in death, disfigurement, permanent disability, and of course, trauma. Prisoners were forced to serve as toy dolls on whom hazardous experiments were performed.
The Holocaust, which was the genocide that involved killing of approximately 6 million Jews at the hands of Hitler-run Nazi regime, still accounts for the most haunting memory from World War II diaries.īut it was not the Holocaust alone, the Nazi Human Experimentation was another equally horrific run carried out by the Nazi doctors. All that has been most talked about since World War II broke out are the many gruesome acts that the Nazis carried out against German Jews in the name of ‘racial purity’.
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