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Experiments and Torture
EXPERIMENTATION Experiments and Torture
Some of the information is taken from Nazi Human Experimentation
Human Experimentation
• Experiments on twins• Bone, muscle, limb and nerve transplant • Freezing experiments• Head injury • Malaria inoculation• Sulphonamide experiments • Sterilization • Air pressure experiments
Experimentation Classification
• Axis survival methods
• Developing and testing pharmaceuticals
• Advance racial and ideological views
Freezing
• Victims were placed in cold water/air• Experiments to try to treat hypothermia • Assessed methods of re-warming victims• 100 reported deaths from freezing alone• Mengele was the main conductor of these trials• Predominately at Auschwitz and Dachau• Results published in 1942
Sea Water
• 90 Gypsies were included in the experiment• One group fed sea water• Second group fed an altered flavour of sea
water• Became extremely dehydrated• Seen licking the floor
Sterilization
• March 19th 1941- January 1945• Conducted mainly at Auschwitz, and Ravensbruck • Try to develop a quick and easy Sterilization method • X-ray, Surgery, and Various drugs• 400,000 victims were sterilized • Some Experiments were successful • Radiation treatment was favoured
High-Altitude Experiments
• Tried to resuscitate pilots after abandonment• Simulated high altitudes• Live vivisections of subjects• 45 percent died in the experiments• Predominately at Dachau concentration camp
Malaria Inoculation
• Investigate an immunization • Inmates were intentionally
infected • Subjects treated with various
drugs• 1100 subjects in the experiment• Majority of the subjects died
Mustard Gas
• Conducted at Sachsenhausen and other camps
• Deliberately exposed to gas• Acquired severe burns• Wounds were tested to find
treatment
Mengele's Children
• Iris changing • Shots and Diseases• Surgeries• Amputation • Conjoined Twins
TORTUREExperiments and Torture
Nazi Torture
• Pealed skin off like a glove• Thumb Screws• Penetrated hands with hot
poker• Hangings • Gash open feet • Shocking • Pulling off ears• Rape
• Ilse Koch• Irma Grese • Juana Bormann• Ewa Paradies
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675036168_Munster-concentration-camp_Nazi-methods-of-torture_wounds-on-survivor_women-prisoner
Strappado Hanging
• Also known as Palestinian Hanging or Reverse Hanging• Wrists are bound behind the back• Weight added to intensify pain • Slowly lowered to add pain• Very common means of torture• Used for infringement of camp rules • Would be public to scare other camp prisoners • Night Sticks were rammed in person’s anal and vaginal cavities
Torture Misconception
• Complex torture devices were not used• Nazi’s did not keep prisoners around long
enough• Various tortures were done as punishment• Their goal was to get rid of the Jews, not
torture them
Ilse Koch
• Famously known as the bitch of Buchenwald• Known as the infamous Jewish inmate tattoo
collector• Forced inmates to rape other inmates• Found interesting tattoos and would skin them to
make lampshades and handbags• Had pleasure in showing off the handbags to inmates
Irma Grese
• Known as Beautiful Beast• Released starved dogs upon prisoner • Would beat and whip prisoners to death• Selected prisoners to be sent to gas chambers• Youngest Nazi to get executed
Juana Bormann
• Known as the Wiesel • Would unleash wolfhounds
on prisons• Beat sick inmates• Beat workers with wooden
and rubber sticks
Ewa Paradies
• Committed depraved acts• Stripped women in winter
and poured cold water on them
• Would beat any women who moved during her tortures