Medical experiments conducted by the Nazis
Introduction
The Nazi party is characterized by the innumerable atrocious facts they made during their regime in Germany, including the experiments carried out in people (mostly Jews) by the doctors members of their regime. The Nazi crimes that tookmain objective is the protection of research subjects. The traveling on the slippery slope began with the concept of value of human life, extended to the proclamation of the Sterilization Law with the laws of Nuremberg, the operations of euthanasia and culminate with the human experiments of Auschwitz.
Many of the investigations were designed to benefit the army. The doctors were responsible for the cruel experiments they performed, first of all the differential value of human life, they had the power to be able to diagnose as a useful life or ‘useless life’, treatments such as: death in the gas chamber could be prescribed, death in the gas chamber,death sentences for the Nazis and deprive them of their freedom in the concentration camps called ghettos in which they were exposed to multiple diseases that the doctors themselves attributed to him, for being races inferior to them and for being prisoners;In addition, they were poisoned, shot and injected with 1ml of streptococci, tuberculosis bacilli, phenol, to see the natural course of their illness and observe how this harmed his body and organs.
Developing
From 1933 to 1945, in Germany Nazi carried out a campaign to clean the German society of people who perceived as biological threats to the health of the nation. The Nazis had the help of doctors and geneticists with medical education, as well as psychiatrists and anthropologists, to develop racial health policies. These policies began with the mass sterilization of many people in hospitals and other institutions and ended up almost exterminating the Jews in Europe.
Medical experiments contrary to all ethical sense (without authorization or any protection for patients) were divided into three categories.
- Experiments related to the survival of military personnel
Many of these fields of the fields had the objective of facilitating the survival of the military personnel of the Army of the field. For example, in the Dachau field, the doctors of the German Air Force and the experimental institution for German aviation conducted high altitude experiments in the prisoners, in order to stop the maximum altitude from which the crew of a planedamaged could be launched in parachute safely.
Scientists also carried out freezing experiments in prisoners, to find an effective treatment against hypothermia. They also used prisoners to test various seawater water treatment methods.
- Experiments to test drugs and treatments
Other experiments were aimed at the development and tests of drugs and treatment methods for injuries and diseases to which German military and occupation personnel were exposed in the field. In the German concentration camps of Sachsenhause, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald and Neuengamme, the scientists used the people of the fields to try immunization compounds and antibodies for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases such as malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, infectious hepatitis. Ravensbruck’s doctors did experiments with bone grafts and tested and tested the effective. In Natzweiler and Sachsenhause, the prisoners were exposed to fosgen and mustard gases to try possible antidotes.
- Experiments for the advance of racial goals and Nazi ideologies
He intended to advance the racial and ideological principles of the vision that the Nazis had the world. The most infamous were the experiments that Josef Mengele carried out in twins of all ages in Auschwitz, also directed experiments with the gypsies, just like Werner Fisher in Sachsenhausen, to determine how the various races resisted different contagious diseases, other horrifying experiments, which intended to expand the racial objectives of the Nazis, included a series of sterilization experiments that were carried out mainly in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck. The scientists analyzed several methods in an effort to develop an efficient and cheap procedure for the mass sterilization of the Jews, the gypsies and other groups that Nazi leaders considered rational or genetically undesirable (Korda, 2006).
conclusion
The doctors of that time worked and contributed their knowledge with the Nazis. The patients were completely affected by the torture they received under the experiments that lacked ethics and morals, these experiments served that at present through several treaties such as conferences, meetings, power determines the existence of codes capable of capable ofProtecting both the patient’s integrity and that of health personnel, however it was also very relevant for those debates in some countries where the death penalty, euthanasia, abortions, informed consent, in experimentation humans are practiced.
Bibliography
- Korda, a. (2006). The Nazi Medical Experiment. ADF Health, 7 (April), 33–37.
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