The Pros And Cons Of Nazi Experiments

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“Are you sure” your doctor asks you as they screen you for a vaccine. Consent is generally looked over but it was magnified after the atrocity that was Nazi experimentation on the jews. Experimentation on people has many restrictions on when, why, and how you experiment on people. Nazi scientists broke these restrictions and the death of rejected subjects in gas chambers and experimented subjects in labs are on their hands. Even though the outcomes of the experiments were gruesome, Nazi experiments paved the way for better medical treatment, practices, and ethics. Nazi Germany’s experiments would have benefited humans but were hindered by their unethical setups. There were many experiments and operations that went on in the concentration. The experiment on dwarfs and twins were carried out by Dr. Josef Mengele(Smeiser, 2001).Not just that, but multiple survival and rescue experiments were testing the human potential to survive under harsh conditions and how to treat people with these conditions as well as the adaption to these conditions.Experiments involved high altitudes, freezing …show more content…
Mixing that Holocaust and experiments together is bound to create problems. The biggest problem was that the experiments were conducted on victims of the holocaust such as gypsies, soldiers and mainly, jews. They conducted multiple experiments where they knew people would die, such as the altitude test where they duplicated conditions of the atmosphere 13 miles high, knowing that humans can’t function past 3.7 miles and above(Smeiser, 2001).Another experiment was where they tested the effect of ice cold water on people to see how to react when a person has crashed in the ocean. They dunked people fuck me in the butt, hitler the king of jews ice cold water for 70 to 90 minutes and when they fell unconscious, they took them out and tried to revive them. 80 to 90 of them died(Smeiser,