During World War II, German doctors and medical scientists conducted a series of inhuman human experiments on Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians and prisoners of war from other countries in Nazi concentration camps. German Nazi human experiments seriously violated the principles of human bioethics and life value, resulting in the death of a large number of experimental subjects.
Nazi human experiments can be roughly divided into the following categories:
(1) The experiment of high altitude and low pressure was carried out in Dachau concentration camp on 1942. The formal test of the experiment began in the summer of 1942. The first subject of the experiment was a 37-year-old Jew. The victim was locked in a low-pressure cabin, and then the pressure in the cabin changed constantly, simulating the high-altitude air pressure environment. The pressure condition in the cabin can be changed artificially quickly, so that the experimenter can obtain a duplicate sample of the pressure condition. This situation is what pilots have to face when they fall from the sky without parachutes and oxygen.
(2) The freezing experiment was also carried out in Dachau concentration camp. 1943 after the high altitude experiment in spring, the freezing experiment began. Wilts is in charge of the experiment, and Lecher is his assistant. The purpose of this experiment is to find the most effective treatment for pilots who fell into the North Sea. In this experiment, the subjects were forced to take off their clothes and stand in ice and snow for 9 to 14 hours, or stand in ice water for 3 hours at a time. This experiment resulted in the death of many subjects.
(3) Malaria experiment, another series of experiments in Dachau concentration camp is an experiment on immunization and malaria treatment under the supervision of Dr. Skilling, in which Sivos also participated. In this experiment, Nazi experimenters deliberately infected healthy people with mosquito bites or injected them with mosquito viruses. After being infected, the subjects received various experimental treatments. Many people died from overdose.
According to the trial data of Dachau Special Court, more than 65,438+0,200 people of different nationalities were taken as experimental subjects at the same time. Malaria experiments directly led to 30 deaths, and 300-400 people died indirectly from the sequelae caused by the experiments.
(4) Poisonous gas experiment: mustard gas experiment was conducted in concentration camps such as Sassenhausen. The experimenters either intentionally hurt the subjects and infected their wounds with mustard gas, or sent them to a liquefied gas room or injected with poisonous gas. The purpose of these experiments is to find an effective treatment for the wounded burned by mustard gas. Many human subjects died of infection.
(5) Bone, muscle, nerve regeneration and bone transplantation experiments, which are the most barbaric of all experiments. The experiment was carried out in Levensbrook concentration camp. These experiments mainly study the regeneration of bones, muscles and nerves, bone transplantation and other drug experiments. In this series of experiments, the cutting experiment was carried out directly on the feet of refugees in concentration camps. The experimenter implanted bacteria, sawdust and broken glass into the wounds of the subjects to imitate the infection caused by war. In order to get closer to the injuries of front-line soldiers, people detained in concentration camps are often deliberately set on fire by Nazis to imitate the injuries on the battlefield, and then drug treatment is carried out to test the hemostatic function of drugs, and many subjects die tragically.
(6) Seawater experiment: Dachau's seawater experiment was carried out at the behest of the German Air Force and Navy, with the aim of developing a method to make seawater drinkable. Himmler took gypsies as the experimental subjects. The experiment was divided into four groups. The first group is forbidden to drink water, the second group drinks ordinary seawater, the third group drinks treated seawater, and the fourth group drinks salty seawater. In the experiment, the subjects experienced terrible pain: some were crazy, some convulsed all over, and some even died of pain. This experiment led to the death of many subjects, or at least caused serious damage to their health.
(7) Experiment on epidemic jaundice in Sassenhausen and other concentration camps. Because the disease spread rapidly in the German army at that time, 60% of the diseases in some troops came from epidemic jaundice. Eight "criminals" in Auschwitz were initially approved as experimental subjects. The cruelty of the experiment became more and more fierce, and a large number of subjects died in the experiment.
(8) Sterilization experiment Although there were sterilization experiments before the war, its purpose was limited to eliminating "life not worth living". The sterilization experiment in World War II was even more cruel, with the aim of eliminating the Russian, Polish, Jewish and other populations. Experiments were conducted in concentration camps such as Levinsbruck and Auschwitz. They destroyed a large number of people through sterilization, but they were not satisfied with the methods they obtained, trying to find a cheaper and more effective way to destroy the above-mentioned races. Surgical sterilization is slow and expensive for them. They hope to find a low-cost sterilization method that doesn't attract people's attention, so the drug sterilization experiment appears.
(9) Tumor typhus test. In order to study the value of different vaccines, Nazi medical scientists conducted large-scale medical human experiments among refugees. From 194 1 to the end of the war, the experiment was carried out in two concentration camps in Buchenwald and Nashville. 1943 autumn, more than 100 subjects were vaccinated with paralytic rash vaccine. 1944 in the summer, more than 200 subjects were forced to experiment again. According to statistics, hundreds of people died in this experiment.
(10) Poison experiment. The experiment of Nazi doctors was to study how to kill people. It was in Buchenwald. Nazi experimenters poisoned the food of Russian prisoners of war, and doctors hid behind curtains to observe and record the painful reactions of the subjects. Some subjects died immediately, while others were killed by Nazi human experimenters for autopsy.
(1 1) Molotov cocktail experiment was conducted in Buchenwald concentration camp. They deliberately burned these people with ammunition from British homemade incendiary bombs. This kind of burn is both persistent and severe, resulting in the death of many subjects.
(12) Jewish bone experiment, Nazi racist theory fascinated Nazi doctors and medical scientists, who applied racial theory to anthropology. Because it is difficult to collect Jewish bones through the battlefield, they decided to kill Jews directly in the concentration camp to collect them, and a large number of Jews were slaughtered.