Nazi experiments on humans — is another darker than the dark side of the Nazi regime — unethical and fatal research conducted on concentration camp prisoners during World War II.
There are countless experiments that were carried out by Nazi doctors and scientists in the name of “scientific” advancement and racial purity. All these experiments involved extreme pain, suffering, and often death.
Some of the experiments conducted by the psychotic Nazi doctors and scientists include freezing victims, performing surgeries without anesthesia, and exposing them to deadly diseases.
However, most of the data obtained from these experiments were often invalid and ignored — and the research was of little scientific value. The atrocities committed during this time have had a lasting impact on the world.
In this article, we will dig deeper into the history of Nazi experiments on humans in an effort to better understand the kinds of experiments that were being conducted, the people who were subjected to them, and whether or not these inhumane experiments had any impact on the field of medical research.
Raising Monsters Through Artificial Insemination
The Nazi regime ordered numerous inhumane medical experiments during World War II, and one such experiment was artificial insemination.
It was carried out under the orders of SS leader Heinrich Himmler and Dr. Carl Clauberg, who aimed to create a “superior race.”
The experiments involved forcibly impregnating women with the sperm of SS officers, and thousands of women were subjected to this procedure.
The women were often subjected to multiple inseminations, while others were only impregnated once before being killed.
The doctors closely monitored their pregnancies — none of these women was allowed any kind of free movement and were kept in the worst conditions possible.
The women who were involved in these experiments suffered unimaginable physical and psychological trauma. To further traumatize these women and to create absolute monsters, these women were told that they had used animal semen to impregnate them.
Nazi Freezing Humans Experiments
During World War II, the Nazis were infamous for conducting all sorts of horrifying experiments on human subjects, and freezing was one of them.
They wanted to see how long a person could survive in freezing temperatures and how they could revive them afterward. Needless to say, it was a complete disaster.
While most of the images from World War 2 have something in them to make a person uncomfortable — the images from these psychopathic concentration camps are straight out of horror movies.
They would submerge people in icy water or lock them in a chamber that was chilled to the bone. They even experimented on infants, trying to freeze them to death and then revive them with warm water baths.
And it wasn’t just the freezing that was barbaric. The Nazis would also conduct experiments on the frozen bodies, trying to find ways to prevent frostbite or reanimate them after they died.
They would amputate limbs without anesthesia or inject them with various chemicals to see what would happen.
All of this was done in the name of “science” and the pursuit of knowledge. It’s a dark reminder of how far humanity can go when we lose our empathy and our sense of morality.
The Typhus Experiment
Typhus Experiments were a series of inhumane medical experiments conducted on prisoners in concentration camps during the time when Nazis were in power.
The “Mastermind” behind typhus experiments was the notorious Dr. Claus Schilling. This evil maniac injected live typhus bacteria into the bodies of hundreds of prisoners.
The purpose of the experiments was to test new vaccines and medications for the treatment of typhus. However, these tests were conducted without these prisoners’ consent and often ended with great suffering with excruciating pain, crazy high fever, and dementia.
These wards were more like zombie wards because most of the people who were able to move around were covered with red spots, and because of inadequate food and treatment, they looked — dead walking.
Many of the victims of the experiments died as a result of the disease, while others were executed to prevent them from revealing the true nature of the experiments to the outside world.
Mass Malaria Experiment On Prisoners Of Dachau Concentration Camp
Time during which Nazi ruled Germany was full of absurd and bizarre experiments. Another one from their time was when doctors were trying to figure out how to combat malaria — a disease that was affecting their soldiers.
However, instead of just doing some lab experiments or testing out new vaccines or drugs, these mentally ill doctors decided to use human beings as their guinea pigs.
They took over 1,000 concentration camp prisoners and infected them with malaria. Some were given drugs, while others were left untreated.
The goal was to see which treatments worked best and to study the progression of the disease.
These people were already suffering inhumane conditions in the concentration camps, and now these inmates were intentionally being infected with a potentially deadly disease.
Many of them died from it, while others suffered severe health consequences for a long period of time.
Apart from being extremely inhuman, this experiment was completely unnecessary. Because there were already proven methods for studying malaria, and these methods didn’t involve killing innocent people
Worst Of all Nazi Experiments On Humans — Sulfonamide Experiment
This is the worst of all and beyond disgusting. The maniac Nazi doctor and scientists conducting these tests were trying to see if a drug called sulfonamide could treat meningitis and pneumonia, but they went about it in the most inhumane way possible.
They infected people with sulfonamide and then just left them to suffer without any kind of treatment. Imagine the agony of high fevers, excruciating headaches, and extreme fatigue — but it gets worse.
Some of the victims almost got to the point of no return, and there were people in the ward who had pus-filled wounds that were oozing everywhere.
This caused others to have rashes, sores, and, worst of all, diarrhea. Living in these sulfonamide wards was just like living in hell because of the filthiness and stench.
The madness was limited to adults, but children were even subjected to this torture. They had to endure the same pain and suffering as adults.
All the prisoners at these camps were disposable for these mad scientists and doctors. The pain and suffering of the victims are unimaginable.
Some Other Nazi Experiments On Humans
Heterochromia — Performing Heterochromia experiments was one thing that was not included in the Nazi list of extreme experiments.
But their notorious physician Josef Mengele, also known as the “Angel of Death,” saw to it that they did not miss out on this.
One of his most well-known experiments involved tinting his victims’ eyes to see if it would have any evident effects after he became frustrated with his inability to find any reliable solutions.
One reason for Josef’s obsession with Heterochromia was that he himself had two coloured eyes.
High Altitude — in 1942, Sigmund Rascher and other researchers at Dachau tested prisoners at high altitudes.
They put prisoners into low-pressure chambers that simulated altitudes of up to 68,000 feet in an effort to better understand how to save German pilots who were forced to eject at high altitudes while also observing their physiological response as they succumbed and died.
Dr Rascher dissected the brains of his victims while they were still alive to demonstrate how tiny air bubbles formed in the blood vessels of a specific area of the brain caused high-altitude sickness.
Of the 200 participants in these experiments, 80 of them died instantly, and the remaining 120 were put to death.
Poison — Another method of individual execution was developed by the researchers at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Prisoners were given phenol and cyanide injections orally in their food. Another method used by these researchers was the use of poison bullets and using various other less common but lethal poisons.
Autopsies were to be performed on all of these subjects if they died on their own. It was good enough; otherwise, they were killed for the next step.
Limbs Amputation — Researchers at Ravensbruck amputated the legs and shoulders of prisoners in desperate attempts to transplant them onto other victims in order to test whether a limb or joint from one person could be successfully attached to another who had lost that limb or joint.
Sometimes the Nazi doctors would cut off pieces of prisoners’ muscles and bones in order to study the regeneration of these body parts. Apart from excruciating pain and mutilation these victims suffered from permanent disability.
Drinking Seawater — Dr. Hans Eppinger, at Dachau experimented with ways to make seawater drinkable. The plan was to know if seawater could help their soldiers near shorelines.
90 Gypsies were starved and made to drink only seawater by the doctors. The subjects were so dehydrated that they started licking floors after they had been mopped to obtain a drop of fresh water.
