During World War II, The Nazi’s conducted several experiments in the camps without the victim’s consent. Proposing that these “Medical Procedures” could eventually find the cure for certain diseases. The experiments were divided into categories to trial a variety of procedures. The medical trials would most often kill the victims and eventually, further analysis would be conducted. Throughout the victims' testimonies, the Nazi medical experiments affected specific groups of people who were forced against their own will.
Along with Hitler’s regime, he put Heinrich Himmler in charge of all medical trial purposes on the camps. The idea of dehumanizing certain prisoners more because, at the end of the day, they were going to die anyway. (HISTORY) Nazi…show more content… Himmler discovered that a cause of death from the soldiers is due to hemorrhage and other diseases, so he ordered Dr. Rascher to find a cure. “Rascher tested his patented coagulant by observing the rate of blood drops that would ooze from the freshly cut amputation stumps of living and conscious prisoners at Dachau (ethics)”. Rascher would sometimes shoot Russian prisoners in the knee to abstract blood from them. The other pharmaceutical treatments consisted of testing for the prevention of treatments of contagious diseases like malaria, typhus, typhoid fever, yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, and hepatitis. These experiments were done at Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen. In Maidank extermination camp, prisoners were tested on the effects of Zyclon B. Gross- Rosen concentration camp would select prisoners to conduct special experimentation with medicines. Buchenwald would inject prisoners with apomorphine, Lumininal, Pervitin, evapium sodium, and chloral hydrate. Ravensbrück would also conduct bone-grafting, menstrual cycle experiments, and amputate legs of inmates in an attempt to transplant limbs onto other victims
