Emancipation Proclamation

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 cou

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The doctors had many reasons for conducting such terrible, inhuman experiments. These doctors used their positions to aid the progress of the Nazi ideals as well as the success of the German military. The freezing

experiments were divided into two parts. The gas chamber experiments could help solve battlefield problems by determining how

burns affected the body and how they can be healed. These doctors would conduct racial and genetic experiments. In 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against 23 German doctors who participated in war crime against humanity. They would then freeze and reheat the victim, repeatedly. The goals of these experiments were to refine the supreme race and to find the cause of defects. The icy vat proved to be the fastest way to drop the body’s temperature. Mengele would select twins from the concentration camps to perform his experiments on. Another manner to carry out such an experiment was to strap a naked victim to a stretcher and leave him outdoors during extreme winter temperatures. The experiments involving the diseases could help aid the German Armed Forces located in occupied territories where these diseases were common.

The third class involved experiments about the human race.

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