We can all agree that the Nazis did terrible things during World War II. The Holocaust was perhaps their most famous crime. But in the concentration camps, terrible and inhuman things happened that most people did not know about. The camp inmates were used as test subjects in many experiments that were very painful and usually resulted in death.
blood clotting experiments
Dr. Sigmund Rascher performed blood clotting experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. He created a drug, Polygal, which included beets and apple pectin. He believed that these pills could help stop bleeding from battle wounds or during surgical operations.
Each subject was given a tablet of the drug and shot in the neck or chest to test its effectiveness. The limbs were then amputated without anesthesia. Dr. Rascher created a company to produce these pills, which also employed prisoners.
Experiments with sulfa drugs 
In the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the effectiveness of sulfonamides (or sulfanilamide preparations) was tested on prisoners. Subjects were given incisions on the outside of their calves. The doctors then rubbed the mixture of bacteria into the open wounds and stitched them up. To simulate combat situations, glass fragments were also brought into the wounds.
However, this method turned out to be too mild compared to the conditions at the fronts. To simulate gunshot wounds, blood vessels were tied off on both sides to cut off blood circulation. Then the prisoners were given sulfa drugs. Despite the advances made in the scientific and pharmaceutical fields through these experiments, the prisoners experienced terrible pain that led to severe injury or even death.
Freezing and Hypothermia Experiments 
The German armies were ill-prepared for the cold that they faced on the Eastern Front and from which thousands of soldiers died. As a result, Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Dachau to find out two things: the time required for the body temperature to drop and death, and methods for reviving frozen people.
Naked prisoners were either placed in a barrel of ice water, or driven out into the street in sub-zero temperatures. Most of the victims died. Those who only fainted were subjected to painful resuscitation procedures. To revive the subjects, they were placed under lamps of sunlight, which burned their skin, forced to copulate with women, injected with boiling water or placed in baths of warm water (which turned out to be the most effective method).
Experiments with firebombs 
For three months in 1943 and 1944, Buchenwald prisoners were tested for the effectiveness of pharmaceutical preparations against phosphorus burns caused by incendiary bombs. The test subjects were specially burned with a phosphorus composition from these bombs, which was a very painful procedure. Prisoners were seriously injured during these experiments.
sea water experiments 
Experiments were conducted on Dachau prisoners to find ways to turn sea water into drinking water. The subjects were divided into four groups, whose members went without water, drank sea water, drank sea water treated according to the Burke method, and drank sea water without salt.
Subjects were given food and drink assigned to their group. Prisoners who received some form of seawater eventually suffered from severe diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, went insane, and eventually died.
In addition, the subjects were subjected to needle biopsy of the liver or lumbar punctures to collect data. These procedures were painful and in most cases ended in death.
Experiments with poisons 
In Buchenwald, experiments were carried out on the effects of poisons on people. In 1943, poisons were secretly administered to prisoners.
Some died themselves from poisoned food. Others were killed for the sake of an autopsy. A year later, poisoned bullets were fired at the prisoners to speed up data collection. These test subjects experienced terrible torment.
Experiments with sterilization 
As part of the extermination of all non-Aryans, Nazi doctors conducted mass sterilization experiments on prisoners from various concentration camps in search of the least laborious and cheapest method of sterilization.
In one series of experiments, a chemical irritant was injected into the reproductive organs of women to block the fallopian tubes. Some women have died after this procedure. Other women were killed for autopsies.
In a number of other experiments, prisoners were subjected to intense X-ray radiation, which led to severe burns on the abdomen, groin and buttocks. They were also left with incurable ulcers. Some test subjects died.
Bone, muscle and nerve regeneration and bone grafting experiments 
For about a year, experiments were carried out on the prisoners of Ravensbrück to regenerate bones, muscles and nerves. Nerve surgeries included the removal of segments of nerves from the lower limbs.
Bone experiments included breaking and repositioning bones in several places on the lower extremities. Fractures were not allowed to heal properly as doctors needed to study the healing process and also test different healing methods.
Doctors also removed numerous fragments of the tibia from the test subjects to study bone regeneration. Bone grafts included transplanting fragments of the left tibia to the right and vice versa. These experiments caused unbearable pain and severe injuries to the prisoners.
Experiments with typhus 
From the end of 1941 until the beginning of 1945, doctors conducted experiments on the prisoners of Buchenwald and Natzweiler in the interests of the German armed forces. They were testing vaccines for typhus and other diseases.
Approximately 75% of test subjects were injected with trial typhus vaccines or other chemicals. They were injected with a virus. As a result, more than 90% of them died.
The remaining 25% of the test subjects were injected with the virus without any prior protection. Most of them did not survive. Physicians also conducted experiments related to yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid, and other diseases. Hundreds of prisoners died, and more prisoners suffered unbearable pain as a result.
Twin experiments and genetic experiments 
The purpose of the Holocaust was the elimination of all people of non-Aryan origin. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals and other people who did not meet certain requirements were to be exterminated so that only the "superior" Aryan race remained. Genetic experiments were carried out to provide the Nazi Party with scientific proof of the superiority of the Aryans.
Dr. Josef Mengele (also known as the "Angel of Death") had a strong interest in the twins. He separated them from the rest of the prisoners when they entered Auschwitz. The twins had to donate blood every day. The real purpose of this procedure is unknown.
The experiments with twins were extensive. They were to be carefully examined and every centimeter of their body measured. After that, comparisons were made to determine hereditary traits. Sometimes doctors performed mass blood transfusions from one twin to the other.
Since people of Aryan origin mostly had blue eyes, experiments were carried out to create them with chemical drops or injections into the iris of the eye. These procedures were very painful and led to infections and even blindness.
Injections and lumbar punctures were done without anesthesia. One twin deliberately contracted the disease, and the other did not. If one twin died, the other twin was killed and studied for comparison.
Amputations and removals of organs were also performed without anesthesia. Most of the twins who ended up in the concentration camp died in one way or another, and their autopsies were the last experiments.
Experiments with high altitudes 
From March to August 1942, the prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were used as test subjects in experiments to test human endurance at high altitudes. The results of these experiments were to help the German air force.
The test subjects were placed in a low pressure chamber, which created atmospheric conditions at altitudes up to 21,000 meters. Most of the test subjects died, and the survivors suffered from various injuries from being at high altitudes.
Experiments with malaria 
Over the course of more than three years, more than 1,000 Dachau prisoners were used in a series of experiments related to the search for a cure for malaria. Healthy prisoners were infected by mosquitoes or extracts from these mosquitoes.
Prisoners who contracted malaria were then treated with various drugs to test their effectiveness. Many prisoners died. The surviving prisoners suffered greatly and were mostly disabled for the rest of their lives.
Ahnenerbe is a secret institute of occult sciences, which brought together many scientists of Nazi Germany, who, along with the ruling elite of the country, were remembered in history as big villains.
The blood-twisted philosophy of the Second World War, ruthlessness, numerous secret projects of the organization with a sinister look at the same time bear the stamp of incomprehensible mystery and inexhaustible mystery.
Developing secret superweapons, occult powers, secret underground lairs, and bringing in powerful ancient artifacts is the perfect recipe for organizing worldwide villainy. Rumor has it, since then, the technique has been declassified, and you will find everything about the sale of the soul on our website.
Perhaps there are more rumors than truth in this matter, however, the ideas of the Nazis that matured in the laboratories of the Ahnenerbe covered a vast area of activity from the material to the mystical and otherworldly. The Nazis really went deep in research expeditions and collected a huge amount of ancient relics.
The fantastic and often downright absurd experiments were so deeply rooted in the dark world of mysticism and the occult that many of them did not become widely known as too ridiculous and incredible.
Hitler, Ahnenerbe, heritage of ancestors.
Hitler, and many of the Nazi leaders, had a huge interest in the field of the occult that is fairly well documented. In fact, the Nazi Party was originally organized as a cabinet of occult brethren, up to the point of their rise to destructive political power.
An extremely heightened interest in the occult caused the formation of a secret intrigue - the Ahnenerbe Institute. A real and complete clan of mystics, originally founded on July 1, 1935 by Heinrich Himmler (the infamous leader of the SS), Hermann Wirth and Darre.
The Ahnenerbe, literally meaning "inherited / heritage from the ancestors", originates as an institute dedicated to the study of archeology, anthropology, and the cultural history of the Germanic heritage. In fact, it was much more - the search for evidence of the Nazi theory, according to which the Aryan race is the best creation of God, and they are destined to rule the life of the planet!
It was imperative for the Nazi Major League to find the fundamental evidence to support the twisted ideology. To this end, this ghostly organization is funding numerous expeditions and archaeological excavations around the world: Germany, Greece, Poland, Iceland, Romania, Croatia, Africa, Russia, Tibet and many other places in search of the lost secret runes of antiquity.
Artifacts, relics were searched, the ruins of crypts were searched, everything was conducted in search of ancient scrolls - evidence that could strengthen the claim that the Aryans were the dominant race over all.Tibet was of particular importance for the scientists of Ahnenerbe, because it was believed that it was here that the great civilization of antiquity lived. It is in these places that the pure, ideally built Aryan race originates. They were convinced of the idea that their greatest ancestors still live in these places, hiding in huge underground cities.
Ahnenerbe is an organization branched from science to the occult, which, given the lineage of its fathers-organizers, is not surprising. Hermann Wirth was a Dutch historian obsessed with an idea. The future leader of the SS, Himmler, is well known for his ardent fascination with all things occult in nature to a maniacally disturbing degree.
In fact, Himmler was a kind of deranged man, possessed by a grandiose desire to one day replace the Christian religion with one of his own solutions. He was one of the driving forces behind the steady divergence in the Ahnenerbe from its original purpose and increasing role towards the occult. In such an impulsive mode, this sinister organization lived and grew, spreading across the world with the tasks of fantastic quests.
Ahnenerbe agents in search of lost lands and ancient relics visited remote areas of the world, climbed all the crypts available to them; they were not afraid to disturb the bones of the dead; they searched for mystical texts, magical items, ancient rarities, bizarre paranormal sites, collecting supernatural artifacts of all kinds.
With official Nazi approval, the Ahnenerbe Institute expands to 50 branches dealing with everything from long-term weather forecasting, archeology and space flight to supernatural research. Significantly, the Nazis stepped up their operations in search of such legendary miracles as the Holy Grail, the location of Atlantis, the spear of Destiny, with which the Roman warrior Longinus ended the suffering of Christ on the cross.
The groups have also searched for various portals to ancient lost lands, including Atlantis, under the influence of an equally secret organization known as the Thule Society. The mysterious land called "Thule" was also believed to be the true birthplace of the Aryan race. The discovery of a fantasy land as desired by the Nazis would endow them with vast superhuman powers: telekinesis, telepathy and levitation, that is, those abilities that they lost over the centuries of mixing with the "inferior races".
The obsessively strong desire of the Nazis was to create a powerful weapon based on the technology of their ancestors. The idea is boldly spreading in the "scientific" divisions of the organization, which actively sought to develop new technologies based on ancient lost or forbidden knowledge, mystical texts, alien technologies, as well as their own secret research.Members of the Ahnenerbe were deeply interested in the possibilities of the occult, magic and psychic powers to use as weapons against their enemies. To this end, various research projects in this area have been launched. They even tried to create assassins who could kill using astral projection.
Among many other strange projects, they wanted to develop the use of magic spells as weapons, and even penetrate through the astral into the future - and this was not considered something impossible and beyond.
There are many speculations that the organization was very interested in finding and using alien technology to create weapons, allegedly in one of the searches they managed to find a crashed ancient UFO! All this may seem absurd, but in the case of the Nazis, this is not a joke, some of their projects were too revolutionary. Many Nazi characters in power believed fervently in these many programs and projects, investing a lot of money and manpower.
In the case of the Ahnenerbe and the Nazis in science, we see malicious and sinister human experiments being carried out in secret lairs and secret laboratories. This is especially noticeable when the Ahnenerbe was incorporated into the Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung (Institute for Military Research) during World War II, where all the unthinkable research and development was opened up that began a dark era of terrible experiments on concentration camp prisoners.
Most of these projects were of dubious aims and results, but all of them were extremely ruthless in content, demonstrating a lack of respect for the non-Aryan human life. In fact, the Nazis did not perceive the captives as a person at all.
Reality Ahnenerbe, Dr. Rascher and his experiments.
One of the most famous examples of the use of the Ahnenerbe is a project to determine the physical limits of the pilots who fly the increasingly modern aircraft of the Luftwaffe. A series of experiments were overseen by Ahnenerbe director Wolfram Sievers and the notorious SS doctor Rascher. The concentration camp prisoners, requested for this purpose from Himmler himself, were used in the experiment - as none of the "true Aryans" were crazy enough to be willing to volunteer for such a dangerous experience.
Rusher had unlimited access to helpless people to use in his crazy experiments. He laid the prisoners in portable vacuum chambers, reminiscent of medieval torture devices, to simulate varying altitudes in flight. The capsules simulated pressure at various altitudes during rapid ascents of the aircraft, as well as the state of free fall without oxygen in order to analyze the consequences and effects on the human body of such situations.
Most of the subjects could not stand the inhuman experiments that pushed people far beyond the physiological limits of the body. I note that Rusher was surprisingly cruel even to those who survived the experiments. When Himmler offered to pay for "services" to the survivors, Rascher refused, saying that all prisoners were Poles and Russians and therefore did not deserve amnesty or pardon.
Rusher's thirst for human suffering is insatiable, and heinous experiments come one after another. In one such experiment, more than 300 prisoners became test subjects to find out how long German pilots could survive if they were shot down over frigid waters.
Subjects were frozen naked for 14 hours, or completely immersed in ice water for 3 hours. All this time, their condition was carefully monitored. Numerous different methods followed to revive them: scalding baths with hot water, or other unconventional methods - they were laid between naked women, who were also taken from concentration camps.
Another experiment was to test a substance called "Polygal" derived from beets and apple pectin. The drug, in capsule form, was expected to quickly stop bleeding, and Rascher saw it as a revolutionary solution for the treatment of gunshot wounds and for use in surgery.
In some cases, subjects have been amputated without anesthesia to test Polygal. Rascher was so confident that the drug was ready for production that he even created a company to produce it. And while Polygal never saw mass production, the design of the capsule led to the invention of the infamous cyanide capsule.
Multiple human experiments have explored possible treatments for deadly diseases caused by biological weapons. At the same time, they searched for antidotes for a wide range of chemical weapons and poisons: injections exposed unwitting test subjects from concentration camps to various pathogens from poisons and deadly chemicals - this is how they searched for an antidote.
But even in death there was no rest for the emaciated martyrs. Many of the dead mortified by these cruel experiments became part of a macabre collection of Jewish skeletons that were preserved to be used for further research. The Nazis from the organization "legacy of the ancestors" did not give rest even to lifeless bodies.
The possibility of somehow manipulating the human body was also considered by Josef Mengele, a sadistic doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele was especially interested in identical twins, experimenting on hundreds of pairs of young children.
The monstrous experiments on children pursued the following goals: to change the color of the eyes, to study the possibilities of the mental connection of the twins, for example, one of the twins was intentionally hurt and suffering, while they coolly watched how the other child felt at that moment.
In laboratories overflowing with suffering and pain, they arranged for one twin to be infected with typhoid or malaria, and then a blood transfusion was performed from the brother / sister, finding out if she would treat the infected.
Numerous experiences with transplanting a body part from one twin to another, and even tried to surgically connect the twins into Siamese twins.
The end goal of the twin experiments was also comparative analysis: when one of the twins eventually died, the other was euthanized by an injection of chloroform. Both bodies will then be dissected with laudatory German pedantry for careful comparative analysis.
Ahnenerbe: Aryan blood zombies and super-soldiers.
The use of experimentation in the Ahnenerbe on people did not stop at the search for the limits and limitations of man. Wandering among living and dead bodies, they were looking for a mental connection between the twins, but the Nazis were also consumed by a great desire to improve the human form - to create super-soldiers of a great nation.
Among the ways to achieve the goal, a selective breeding process designed to produce people of "pure Aryan blood" gained popularity, a project called "Lebensborn". The project needed ideal samples capable of having children without "impurities" in the race, which "polluted" the human potential of the "master race".
The Ahnenerbe seriously believed that work in the field of genetics would help unlock the vast potential of the mysterious psychic power allegedly lost due to the "erosion" of their true heritage, which would then give them the opportunity to once again rule the world from the "lower races".
In many cases, those who were recognized as the perfect exemplar - according to Nazi criteria - of blue eyes, blond hair and Scandinavian features, were far from willingly entering the program. They were abducted or otherwise forced to participate in the project.
However, in order to achieve the required results, the ambitious project of high goals required many generations of careful selection, so the organization moved towards the goal by a shorter path.
The program, designed to create super soldiers with enhanced physical capabilities for use on the battlefield without restrictions, included an experimental drug called "D-IX". A wild cocktail of cocaine and a powerful stimulant (pervitin) was mixed with the powerful painkiller eucodal.
For the first time, the drug was tested on prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and showed such encouraging results that the developers soon recruited participants from the military environment. Soldiers received capsules and went on long marches in harsh terrain in full gear.
And in fact, D-IX showed a dramatic increase in stamina and concentration in the subjects. The soldiers, having taken the drug, freely overcame more than 100 km without stopping.
True, the wrong side of the “strength” capsule turned out to be that long-term use caused addiction to the drug. Nevertheless, the D-IX was a resounding success and was officially used in the field from March 1944, albeit in limited dosage.
Ahnenerbe: resurrect Hitler?
While the D-IX, like its more advanced combat stimulants, does actually exist, there are actually more mysterious things out there. Some conspiracy theories believe that the Nazis worked in the field of resurrection of the dead with the help of unknown means brought from Tibet and Africa.
An interesting incident related to this case was made in April 1945, when the Allied forces seized the Bernterode military plant, located in the German region of Thuringia. When American intelligence officers explored a tunnel inside the plant, they discovered suspicious brickwork disguised as part of a natural rock.
The destruction of the masonry opened the entrance to an underground cavern, which contained huge deposits of stolen art and ancient relics. Many new Nazi uniforms were also stored here. But a more mysterious find was waiting in the next chamber - four extremely large coffins were found here!
One of the coffins (real sarcophagi) kept the remains of the 17th century Prussian king, Frederick the Great, others Field Marshal von Hindenburg and his wife. The fourth coffin did not have the owner's body, but had a plaque engraved with Adolf Hitler's name.
Although the reasons why these remains were so carefully preserved are unknown, some have suggested that the Nazis had plans to resurrect or clone the deceased at a later time. - At this point, I do not want to say that the Ahnenerbe literally expected to bring the dead leaders back to life, however, serious work was carried out in the field of cryogenics, which was probably planned to be done with Hitler's body.
Much closer to the truth, that persistent rumor among a number of fans of secrets and conspiracy theories is that the Ahnenerbe actively led projects seeking to create mindless zombies in order to send hordes of troops not afraid of injury to the enemy. And it would not be zombies at all, whose bodies would be raised from the dead.
Everything is much simpler and at the same time more terrible - a special medical procedure designed to destroy the intellect and destroy everything human to the very foundation. That was the recipe for creating indefatigable super-soldiers in the army of the Reich.
Yes, the Ahnenerbe did lead many strange research directions, which are extremely important for the "dark" organization. Here, all employees were deeply involved in various projects, research, studies of the occult and the supernatural, medical experiments and the development of secret weapons from great ancestors. And no one knows for sure what they managed to uncover from the ancient secrets and comprehend from the sphere of the astral world.
With the end of the Second World War, the mysterious Ahnenerbe "dissolved", disappeared. It is believed that most of the data, documents, ancient texts and artifacts that the organization has collected over the years have been destroyed or stolen by intelligence agencies.
In the absence of real evidence, it is impossible to fully highlight the extent of their success in extracting ancient relics and artifacts, so we are left with a lot of speculation and rumors regarding the dark legend of the Ahnenerbe.
The Third Reich is the most mysterious empire of the 20th century. Until now, humanity shudders to comprehend the secrets of the greatest criminal adventure of all time. We have collected for you the most mysterious experiments of scientists of the Third Reich.
Some of these experiments are so horrifying that sometimes just the thought that crosses our minds about them sends goosebumps.
It is hard to believe that there were such people who did not put the lives of other people in a penny, laughed at their suffering, cripple the fate of entire families, killed children.
Thank God that in our time there are those who can protect us from the modern manifestation of this cruelty, if you support this, we are waiting for your comment.
Along with the design of nuclear weapons, research and experiments were conducted in the Third Reich on animals and humans as a biological unit. Namely, Nazi experiments were conducted on people, their endurance of the nervous system and physical capabilities.
Doctors have always had a special relationship, they were considered the saviors of mankind. Even in ancient times, healers and healers were revered, believing that they have a special healing power. That is why modern humanity is shocked by the outrageous medical experiments of the Nazis.
The wartime priorities were not only rescue, but also the preservation of the working capacity of people in extreme conditions, the possibility of blood transfusions with different Rh factors, new drugs were tested. Great importance was given to experiments to combat hypothermia. The German army, which took part in the war on the eastern front, was completely unprepared for the climatic conditions of the northern part of the USSR. A huge number of soldiers and officers received severe frostbite or even died from the winter cold.
Doctors under the direction of Dr. Sigmund Rascher dealt with this problem in the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps. Reich Minister Heinrich Himmler personally showed great interest in these experiments (the Nazi experiments on people were very similar to the atrocities of the Japanese detachment 731). At a medical conference held in 1942 to study medical problems associated with work in the northern seas and highlands, Dr. Rascher published the results of his experiments on concentration camp prisoners. His experiments concerned two sides - how long a person can stay at low temperatures without dying, and in what ways he can then be reanimated. To answer these questions, thousands of prisoners immersed themselves in icy water in winter or lay naked on stretchers in the cold.
To find out at what body temperature a person dies, young Slavic or Jewish men were immersed naked in a tank with ice water close to "0" degrees. To measure a prisoner's body temperature, the transducer was inserted into the rectum using a probe having an expandable metal ring at the end, which was brought open inside the rectum to hold the transducer firmly in place.
A huge number of victims were needed to find out that death finally occurs when the body temperature drops to 25 degrees. They simulated the hit of German pilots in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. With the help of inhuman experiments, it was found that hypothermia of the occipital lower part of the head contributes to a faster death. This knowledge led to the creation of life jackets with a special headrest that does not allow the head to be immersed in water.
Sigmund Rascher during experiments on hypothermia
To quickly warm the victim, inhuman torture was also used. For example, they tried to warm the frozen ones with ultraviolet lamps, trying to determine the exposure time at which the skin begins to burn. The method of "internal irrigation" was also used. At the same time, water heated to “bubbles” was injected into the stomach, rectum and bladder using probes and a catheter. From such treatment, the victims died all, without exception. The most effective was the method of placing a frozen body in water and gradually heating this water. But a huge number of prisoners died before it was concluded that the heating should be slow enough. At the suggestion of Himmler personally, attempts were made to warm the frozen man with the help of women who warmed the man and copulated with him. This kind of treatment has had some success, but certainly not at critical cooling temperatures….
Even Dr. Rascher conducted experiments to determine from what maximum height pilots could jump out of an airplane with a parachute and stay alive. He experimented on prisoners, simulating atmospheric pressure at a height of up to 20 thousand meters and the effect of free fall without an oxygen cylinder. Of the 200 experimental prisoners, 70 died. It is terrible that these experiments were completely meaningless and did not give any practical benefit to German aviation.
For the fascist regime, research in the field of genetics was very important. The goal of the fascist doctors was to find evidence of the superiority of the Aryan race over others. A true Aryan had to be athletically built with the correct proportions of the body, be blond and have blue eyes. So that blacks, Hispanics, Jews, gypsies, and at the same time, just homosexuals, in no way could prevent the accession of the chosen race, they were simply destroyed ...
For those entering into marriage, the German leadership demanded that a whole list of conditions be met and full testing be carried out in order to guarantee the racial purity of children born in marriage. The conditions were very harsh, and violations were punishable up to and including the death penalty. No exceptions were made for anyone.
So the lawful wife of the previously mentioned Dr. Z. Rascher was barren, and the couple adopted two children. Later, the Gestapo conducted an investigation and Z. Fischer's wife was executed for this crime. So the killer doctor was punished by those people to whom he was fanatically devoted.
In the book of the journalist O. Erradon “The Black Order. The Pagan Army of the Third Reich” refers to the existence of several programs to preserve the purity of the race. In fascist Germany, “mercy death” was used everywhere on a massive scale - this is a type of euthanasia, the victims of which were disabled children and the mentally ill. All doctors and midwives were required to report newborns with Down syndrome, any physical deformities, cerebral palsy, etc. The parents of such newborns were put under pressure and they had to send their children to "death centers" scattered throughout Germany.
To prove racial superiority, Nazi medical scientists conducted countless experiments to measure the skulls of people belonging to various nationalities. The task of scientists was to determine the external signs that distinguish the race of masters, and, accordingly, the ability to detect and correct defects that still happen from time to time. In the cycle of these studies, Dr. Josef Mengele, who was engaged in experiments on twins in Auschwitz, is infamous. He personally screened thousands of incoming prisoners, sorting them into "interesting" or "uninteresting" for his experiments. The "uninteresting" were sent to die in the gas chambers, and the "interesting" had to envy those who found their death so quickly.
Terrible torture awaited the test subjects. Dr. Mengele was especially interested in pairs of twins. It is known that he conducted experiments on 1,500 pairs of twins, and only 200 pairs survived. Many were killed immediately, in order to conduct a comparative anatomical analysis at autopsy. And in some cases, Mengele instilled various diseases in one of the twins, so that later, after killing both, to look at the difference between healthy and sick.
Much attention was paid to the issue of sterilization. Candidates for this were all people with hereditary physical or mental illnesses, as well as various hereditary pathologies, these included not only blindness and deafness, but also alcoholism. In addition to the victims of sterilization within the country, there was the problem of the population of enslaved countries.
The Nazis were looking for the cheapest and fastest sterilization of a large number of people, which would not lead workers to long-term disability. Research in this area was led by Dr. Carl Clauberg.
In the Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and other concentration camps, thousands of prisoners were exposed to various medical chemicals, surgeries, and radiography. Almost all of them became disabled and lost the opportunity to procreate. As a chemical treatment, injections of iodine and silver nitrate were used, which were indeed very effective, but caused many side effects, among others, cervical cancer, severe pain in the abdomen, and vaginal bleeding.
More "profitable" was the method of radiation exposure of experimental subjects. It turned out that a small dose of X-rays can provoke infertility in the human body, sperm ceases to be produced in men, and eggs are not produced in the body of women. The result of this series of experiments was a radioactive overdose and even radioactive burns of many prisoners.
From the winter of 1943 to the autumn of 1944, experiments were carried out in the Buchenwald concentration camp on the effects of various poisons on the human body. They were mixed into the food of the prisoners and watched the reaction. Some victims were allowed to die, some were killed by the guards at various stages of poisoning, which made it possible to conduct an autopsy and follow how the poison gradually spreads and affects the body. In the same camp, searches were made for a vaccine against the bacteria of typhus, yellow fever, diphtheria, smallpox, for which the prisoners were first vaccinated with experimental vaccines, and then infected with the disease.
Buchenwald prisoners were also experimented with incendiary mixtures, trying to find a way to treat soldiers who received phosphorus burns from bomb explosions. Truly horrific were the experiments with homosexuals. The regime considered non-traditional sexual orientation a disease and doctors looked for ways to treat it. For the experiments, not only homosexuals were involved, but also men of a traditional orientation. Castration, removal of the penis, and transplantation of the genital organs were used as treatment. A certain Dr. Vaernet tried to treat homosexuality with the help of his invention - an artificially created "gland" that was implanted in prisoners and which was supposed to supply male hormones to the body. It is clear that all these experiments did not bring results.
From the beginning of 1942 to the middle of 1945, in the Dachau concentration camp, German doctors under the leadership of Kurt Pletner conducted research to create a method of treating malaria. For the experiment, physically healthy people were selected and infected with not only malarial mosquitoes, but also by introducing sporozoans isolated from mosquitoes. For treatment, quinine, drugs such as antipyrine, pyryramidone, as well as a special experimental drug "2516-Bering" were used. As a result of the experiments, about 40 people died directly from malaria, and more than 400 died from complications after the disease or from excessive doses of medicines.
During 1942-1943, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the effect of antibacterial drugs was tested on the prisoners. Prisoners were deliberately shot and then infected with anaerobic gangrene, tetanus, and streptococcus bacteria. To complicate the experiment, crushed glass and metal or wood shavings were also poured into the wound. The resulting inflammation was treated with sulfanilamide and other drugs, determining their effectiveness.
In the same camp, experiments were carried out in transplantology and traumatology. Intentionally mutilating the bones of people, doctors cut out sections of the skin and muscle cover to the bone, so that it would be more convenient to observe the healing process of bone tissue. They also cut off the limbs of some test subjects and tried to sew them on to others. The Nazi medical experiments were led by Karl Franz Gebhardt.
At the Nuremberg Trials, which took place after the end of the Second World War, twenty doctors were put on trial. The investigation showed that they were, at their core, real serial maniacs. Seven of them were sentenced to death, five received life sentences, four were acquitted, and four more doctors were sentenced to prison terms ranging from ten to twenty years in prison. Unfortunately, not everyone involved in inhuman experiments suffered retribution. Many of them remained at large and lived a long life, unlike their victims.
The ethics of scientific research was updated after the end of the Second World War. In 1947, the Nuremberg Code was developed and adopted, protecting the well-being of research participants to this day. However, before scientists did not disdain to experiment on prisoners, slaves and even members of their own families, violating all human rights. This list contains the most shocking and unethical cases.
10 Stanford Prison Experiment
In 1971, a team of scientists at Stanford University, led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo, conducted a study of human reactions to the restriction of freedom in prison. As part of the experiment, volunteers had to play the roles of guards and prisoners in the basement of the building of the Faculty of Psychology, equipped as a prison. Volunteers quickly got used to their duties, however, contrary to the predictions of scientists, terrible and dangerous incidents began to occur during the experiment. A third of the "guards" showed pronounced sadistic tendencies, while many "prisoners" were psychologically traumatized. Two of them had to be excluded from the experiment ahead of time. Zimbardo, concerned about the antisocial behavior of the subjects, was forced to stop the study ahead of schedule.
9. Monstrous experiment
In 1939, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, Mary Tudor, under the guidance of psychologist Wendell Johnson, set up an equally shocking experiment on the orphans of the Davenport orphanage. The experiment was devoted to the study of the influence of value judgments on the fluency of children's speech. The subjects were divided into two groups. During the training of one of them, Tudor gave positive marks and praised in every possible way. She subjected the speech of the children from the second group to severe criticism and ridicule. The experiment ended in failure, which is why it later got its name. Many healthy children never recovered from their trauma and suffered from speech problems throughout their lives. A public apology for the Monstrous Experiment was not issued until 2001 by the University of Iowa.
8. Project 4.1
The medical study, known as Project 4.1, was conducted by US scientists on Marshall Islanders who became victims of radioactive contamination after the explosion of the US Castle Bravo thermonuclear device in the spring of 1954. In the first 5 years after the disaster on the Rongelap Atoll, the number of miscarriages and stillbirths doubled, and surviving children developed developmental disorders. In the following decade, many of them developed thyroid cancer. By 1974, a third had neoplasms. As experts later concluded, the purpose of the medical program to help the local residents of the Marshall Islands was to use them as guinea pigs in a "radioactive experiment."
7. Project MK-ULTRA
The CIA's secret MK-ULTRA mind-manipulation research program was launched in the 1950s. The essence of the project was to study the influence of various psychotropic substances on human consciousness. The participants in the experiment were doctors, military, prisoners and other representatives of the US population. The subjects, as a rule, did not know that they were being injected with drugs. One of the secret operations of the CIA was called "Midnight Climax". Men were selected from several brothels in San Francisco, injected with LSD into their bloodstream, and then filmed for study. The project lasted at least until the 1960s. In 1973, the CIA leadership destroyed most of the documents of the MK-ULTRA program, causing significant difficulties in the subsequent investigation of the case by the US Congress.
6. Project "Aversion"
From the 70s to the 80s of the 20th century, an experiment was conducted in the South African army aimed at changing the sex of soldiers with non-traditional sexual orientation. During the top-secret operation "Aversia" about 900 people were injured. Alleged homosexuals were calculated by army doctors with the assistance of priests. In the military psychiatric ward, test subjects were subjected to hormonal therapy and electric shock. If the soldiers could not be "cured" in this way, they were waiting for forced chemical castration or sex reassignment surgery. "Aversion" was directed by psychiatrist Aubrey Levine. In the 90s, he immigrated to Canada, not wanting to stand trial for the atrocities he committed.
5 Human Experimentation In North Korea
North Korea has been repeatedly accused of researching prisoners that violate human rights, however, the government of the country denies all accusations, saying that they are treated humanely in the state. However, one of the former prisoners told a shocking truth. A terrible, if not terrifying experience appeared before the eyes of the prisoner: 50 women, under the threat of reprisals against their families, were forced to eat poisoned cabbage leaves and died, suffering from bloody vomiting and rectal bleeding, accompanied by the screams of other victims of the experiment. There are eyewitness accounts of special laboratories equipped for experiments. Entire families became their targets. After a standard medical examination, the wards were sealed and filled with asphyxiating gas, and the "researchers" watched through the glass from above as parents tried to save their children by giving them artificial respiration for as long as they had strength left.
4. Toxicological laboratory of the special services of the USSR
A top-secret scientific unit, also known as the "Chamber", under the leadership of Colonel Mairanovsky, was engaged in experiments in the field of toxic substances and poisons, such as ricin, digitoxin and mustard gas. Experiments were carried out, as a rule, on prisoners sentenced to capital punishment. Poisons were given to the subjects under the guise of drugs along with food. The main goal of scientists was to find an odorless and tasteless toxin that would not leave traces after the death of the victim. In the end, scientists managed to find the poison they were looking for. According to eyewitness accounts, after ingestion of C-2, the subject would become weak, quiet, as if cowering, and dying within 15 minutes.
3. Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The infamous experiment began in 1932 in Tuskegee, Alabama. For 40 years, scientists literally denied patients treatment for syphilis in order to study all stages of the disease. The victims of the experience were 600 poor African-American sharecroppers. Patients were not informed about their illness. Instead of a diagnosis, doctors told people they had "bad blood" and offered free food and treatment in exchange for participating in the program. During the experiment, 28 men died from syphilis, 100 from subsequent complications, 40 infected their wives, and 19 children received a congenital disease.
2. "Squad 731"
Employees of a special detachment of the Japanese armed forces under the leadership of Shiro Ishii were engaged in experiments in the field of chemical and biological weapons. In addition, they are responsible for the most horrific experiments on people that history knows. The detachment's military doctors dissected living subjects, amputated the limbs of captives and sewed them to other parts of the body, deliberately infected men and women with venereal diseases through rape in order to study the consequences later. The list of atrocities committed by Unit 731 is long, but many of its members have never been punished for their deeds.
1. Nazi experiments on people
Medical experiments carried out by the Nazis during World War II claimed a huge number of lives. In concentration camps, scientists performed the most sophisticated and inhuman experiments. In Auschwitz, Dr. Josef Mengele examined more than 1,500 pairs of twins. A variety of chemicals were injected into the subjects' eyes to see if their color would change, and in an attempt to create Siamese twins, the subjects were stitched together. Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe tried to find a way to treat hypothermia by forcing prisoners to lie in ice water for several hours, and at the Ravensbrück camp, researchers deliberately inflicted wounds on prisoners and infected them with infections in order to test sulfonamides and other drugs.
We can all agree that the Nazis did terrible things during World War II. The Holocaust was perhaps their most famous crime. But in the concentration camps, terrible and inhuman things happened that most people did not know about. The camp inmates were used as test subjects in many experiments that were very painful and usually resulted in death.
blood clotting experiments
Dr. Sigmund Rascher performed blood clotting experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. He created a drug, Polygal, which included beets and apple pectin. He believed that these pills could help stop bleeding from battle wounds or during surgical operations.Each subject was given a tablet of the drug and shot in the neck or chest to test its effectiveness. The limbs were then amputated without anesthesia. Dr. Rascher created a company to produce these pills, which also employed prisoners.
Experiments with sulfa drugs
In the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the effectiveness of sulfonamides (or sulfanilamide preparations) was tested on prisoners. Subjects were given incisions on the outside of their calves. The doctors then rubbed the mixture of bacteria into the open wounds and stitched them up. To simulate combat situations, glass fragments were also brought into the wounds.
However, this method turned out to be too mild compared to the conditions at the fronts. To simulate gunshot wounds, blood vessels were tied off on both sides to cut off blood circulation. Then the prisoners were given sulfa drugs. Despite the advances made in the scientific and pharmaceutical fields through these experiments, the prisoners experienced terrible pain that led to severe injury or even death.
Freezing and Hypothermia Experiments
The German armies were ill-prepared for the cold that they faced on the Eastern Front and from which thousands of soldiers died. As a result, Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Dachau to find out two things: the time required for the body temperature to drop and death, and methods for reviving frozen people.
Naked prisoners were either placed in a barrel of ice water, or driven out into the street in sub-zero temperatures. Most of the victims died. Those who only fainted were subjected to painful resuscitation procedures. To revive the subjects, they were placed under lamps of sunlight, which burned their skin, forced to copulate with women, injected with boiling water or placed in baths of warm water (which turned out to be the most effective method).
Experiments with firebombs
For three months in 1943 and 1944, Buchenwald prisoners were tested for the effectiveness of pharmaceutical preparations against phosphorus burns caused by incendiary bombs. The test subjects were specially burned with a phosphorus composition from these bombs, which was a very painful procedure. Prisoners were seriously injured during these experiments.sea water experiments
Experiments were conducted on Dachau prisoners to find ways to turn sea water into drinking water. The subjects were divided into four groups, whose members went without water, drank sea water, drank sea water treated according to the Burke method, and drank sea water without salt.
Subjects were given food and drink assigned to their group. Prisoners who received some form of seawater eventually suffered from severe diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, went insane, and eventually died.
In addition, the subjects were subjected to needle biopsy of the liver or lumbar punctures to collect data. These procedures were painful and in most cases ended in death.
Experiments with poisons
In Buchenwald, experiments were carried out on the effects of poisons on people. In 1943, poisons were secretly administered to prisoners.
Some died themselves from poisoned food. Others were killed for the sake of an autopsy. A year later, poisoned bullets were fired at the prisoners to speed up data collection. These test subjects experienced terrible torment.
Experiments with sterilization
As part of the extermination of all non-Aryans, Nazi doctors conducted mass sterilization experiments on prisoners from various concentration camps in search of the least laborious and cheapest method of sterilization.
In one series of experiments, a chemical irritant was injected into the reproductive organs of women to block the fallopian tubes. Some women have died after this procedure. Other women were killed for autopsies.
In a number of other experiments, prisoners were subjected to intense X-ray radiation, which led to severe burns on the abdomen, groin and buttocks. They were also left with incurable ulcers. Some test subjects died.
Bone, muscle and nerve regeneration and bone grafting experiments
For about a year, experiments were carried out on the prisoners of Ravensbrück to regenerate bones, muscles and nerves. Nerve surgeries included the removal of segments of nerves from the lower limbs.
Bone experiments included breaking and repositioning bones in several places on the lower extremities. Fractures were not allowed to heal properly as doctors needed to study the healing process and also test different healing methods.
Doctors also removed numerous fragments of the tibia from the test subjects to study bone regeneration. Bone grafts included transplanting fragments of the left tibia to the right and vice versa. These experiments caused unbearable pain and severe injuries to the prisoners.
Experiments with typhus
From the end of 1941 until the beginning of 1945, doctors conducted experiments on the prisoners of Buchenwald and Natzweiler in the interests of the German armed forces. They were testing vaccines for typhus and other diseases.
Approximately 75% of test subjects were injected with trial typhus vaccines or other chemicals. They were injected with a virus. As a result, more than 90% of them died.
The remaining 25% of the test subjects were injected with the virus without any prior protection. Most of them did not survive. Physicians also conducted experiments related to yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid, and other diseases. Hundreds of prisoners died, and more prisoners suffered unbearable pain as a result.
Twin experiments and genetic experiments
The purpose of the Holocaust was the elimination of all people of non-Aryan origin. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals and other people who did not meet certain requirements were to be exterminated so that only the "superior" Aryan race remained. Genetic experiments were carried out to provide the Nazi Party with scientific proof of the superiority of the Aryans.
Dr. Josef Mengele (also known as the "Angel of Death") had a strong interest in the twins. He separated them from the rest of the prisoners when they entered Auschwitz. The twins had to donate blood every day. The real purpose of this procedure is unknown.
The experiments with twins were extensive. They were to be carefully examined and every centimeter of their body measured. After that, comparisons were made to determine hereditary traits. Sometimes doctors performed mass blood transfusions from one twin to the other.
Since people of Aryan origin mostly had blue eyes, experiments were carried out to create them with chemical drops or injections into the iris of the eye. These procedures were very painful and led to infections and even blindness.
Injections and lumbar punctures were done without anesthesia. One twin deliberately contracted the disease, and the other did not. If one twin died, the other twin was killed and studied for comparison.
Amputations and removals of organs were also performed without anesthesia. Most of the twins who ended up in the concentration camp died in one way or another, and their autopsies were the last experiments.
Experiments with high altitudes
From March to August 1942, the prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were used as test subjects in experiments to test human endurance at high altitudes. The results of these experiments were to help the German air force.
The test subjects were placed in a low pressure chamber, which created atmospheric conditions at altitudes up to 21,000 meters. Most of the test subjects died, and the survivors suffered from various injuries from being at high altitudes.
Experiments with malaria
Over the course of more than three years, more than 1,000 Dachau prisoners were used in a series of experiments related to the search for a cure for malaria. Healthy prisoners were infected by mosquitoes or extracts from these mosquitoes.
Prisoners who contracted malaria were then treated with various drugs to test their effectiveness. Many prisoners died. The surviving prisoners suffered greatly and were mostly disabled for the rest of their lives.
