Holocaust Argumentative Essay

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The holocaust lasted for 12 years, 12 years of gruesome acts that resulted in pain and death. 1,200 people were used and less than half survived human experimentation. During the Holocaust the undesirables were placed in concentration camps, some of the people placed there were used for experiments that would benefit the nazi but resulted in excruciating pain and death for them. Nazi human experimentation was gruesome and most of the time fatale, but was done with a purpose that benefited society today. There is a moral issue on if the information gathered by the nazi should be used. Dr. henry beecher a late harvard medical professor who doesn't want to publish the information claims “this loss, it seems, would be less important than the far reaching moral loss to medicine if the data were to be …show more content…
Sigmar Mascher at Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camp and were conducted for different reasons. They were done to finds way to treat hypothermia, for military reason to simulate what the german soldiers would have to face in the environment, and to see how long pilots could last in below freezing water. There were two parts in the experiment. To find out how long it takes to lower body temperature to death and the best way to resuscitate the people. There were two ways the subjects were torchured the first was the y put the undesirables in ice vats sometimes wearing one of the german uniforms but mostly completely naked. The second one was to put the victim outside strped down in the extreme winter. The victims lost consciousness and died when their body temperature got below 25 c this was a painful and dragged out death for the victims but some of the victims were resuscitated but still often died do to the lack of knowledge but what was learned was to slowly expose the victims that suffer from hypothermia slowly into warmth if the victim was instantly warmed they would die from the