Doctors are often looked up to as miracle workers, they heal people, not hurt them. This was not at all true during the Holocaust in Germany, they could even be perceived as the devils advocates. Throughout history, doctors have indeed performed many wonders. There were, however, some doctors that betrayed this belief and peoples trust. These doctors could be found in concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Dachau. These doctors committed unspeakable acts against the Jews, homosexuals, and many other minorities, some doctors even believing that they were conducting helpful experiments. Following the holocaust, however, some of them were punished for their actions.
             Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy medical research projects and medical experiments were conducted at Auschwitz and Dachau. Over two hundred doctors participated in such research projects and experiments, sentencing between 70,000 and 100,000 people, held against their will, to death through experimentation. These were mostly Jews, homosexuals and other minorities. They were thought to be inferior to the human race. Such practices became widely accepted and embraced by the Germans, due to the Nazis propaganda. The experiments conducted were diverse, but could be categorized in three classes.
             The first class of experiments was conducted for the Nazi High Command. These experiments dealt with survival and rescue. They involved freezing and extreme temperatures as well as the ingestion of sea water and altitude changes. The freezing
             experiments were divided into two parts. The first was to see how long it would take to lower body temperature, and the next to decide how to best resuscitate a frozen victim. The doctors would submerge a naked victim in an icy vat of water. They would insert and insulated thermometer into the victim's rectum in order to monitor his or her body temperature. The icy vat proved to be the fastest way to drop the body&apo...