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The worst treatment to one single race during World War II was towards the Jewish race.
These people were stripped of all their rights and then they were not even treated like human beings.
The German’s forced the Jewish people to leave their homes and did not allow them to take their
possessions with them. The Jewish people were forced to live in the ghetto for a period of time until
the were taking away to concentration camps or to be exterminated. The Jewish people that were
in the concentration camps were forced to do harsh labour, their living conditions were horrendous,
and the Jewish people were used as test subjects.
The Jewish people were forced into doing extremely hard labour when the went to the
concentration camps. They were told that they given food and shelter in return for their work, but
they were never given anything. The Jewish people were assigned “forced labour in German
factories and on German farms” (USHMM). The Jewish people had to work in munition factories
building bombs and making bullets. They also were assigned to build vehicles and had to make
goods for the German war effort. They had to work on the Germa
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of hard labour many Jews “died of hunger, disease and slave labour” (Berenbaum and Peck 378).
The Jews did not have enough food so everyone would be able to eat well so often many people
would be starving. There are three
main categories that the experiments can be divided up into. The Jewish people were
forced to do hard labour the required lots of strength and the work that was given to them often wore
down their bodies very quickly. Since the
Jews did not have the proper cold to endure the “severe winter weather” (USHMM) they were cold
and then had a greater chance of becoming ill. The Jews were used by German doctors as test subjects to see
whether the doctors had come up with a “prevention and treatment of contagious diseases, including
malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis” (USHMM). The Jews were taken out of their homes and left to live on the streets in the cold. The Jewish people were forced to carry heavy
boulders for long distances just to take them to the stone quarry. n farms because farming was hard
work and the Germans did not care if they worked the Jewish people to death because they did not
care for them and they felt that the Jewish people were of a lower class.
These testing were not just to the benefit of the Germans because if a cure was made the whole
world would find out, but no matter what the Jews had paid the price for the experimentations. The Jewish people were humiliated and were forced to do pointless work just
for the Germans pleasure and so they would be able to ridicule them. Another reason why medical experimentation was done was to develop and
test pharmaceuticals and treatments. The high altitude experiments were used to see what was the maximum altitude at which
the crew of a damaged air craft could be saved. One of the reason that the experiments
were done was for the survival of military personnel.
The Jewish people were subjected to several experimentations while they were in the
concentration camps.
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