The Use of Nazi Experimental "

             During World War II the use of prisoners in concentration camps were used in savage and inhuman experiments by the Nazis. After the war 20 doctors were charged with War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. The Nuremberg trial of the doctors revealed the sadistic tests they performed on human subjects. Since the Nuremberg trials, our society is quite aware that the Nazi doctors are more than guilty of deliberate murder that Nazi doctors claimed was "research". Professional modern medicine can easily label the Nazi doctors as evil, heartless men. But then why is the use of the Nazi doctors "medical research" still continued to be in use? It is quite the ethical dilemma. Is it appropriate to use data as morally sickening as that taken out from victims of Nazism?
             The pain and suffering in which concentration camp inmates felt, physically, mentally and emotionally cannot be denied. They endured incredible suffering, mutilation, and indescribable pain. The experiments were purposely designed to terminate the subjects. Some doctors today believe that the "data" which was obtained by the Nazi doctors should not be used because it has no scientific value or it is a hideous crime, which revealed nothing modern medicine can use. Despite arguments that the Nazi experiments were unscientific, the data does still exist. Although the data is unmoral and covered with the inhumanity of the past, you cannot escape the fact that perhaps it can be used to save lives and benefit us somehow. Author Kristine Moe suggested that by using the experimental data perhaps we can find some good from evil: "Nor, however, should we let the inhumanity of such experiments blind us to the possibility that some "good" may be salvaged from the ashes."
             As an example, lets imagine that a dying person agrees to donate their heart after their death. Once the person dies, doctors must very quickly extract
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