The types of experiments conducted.
Racially motivated experiments.
Racially motivated the Nazis wanted to perfect the Aryan race and get rid of those not worthy of living with the Germans. One of the experiments most known was the supposed check-ups of Jewish people and after they sent them to gas chambers and killed hundreds at a time. The methods of killing varied from gas chambers to gun execution squads to beating them to death after the Nazis did not considered them valuable for experimentation. One of the cruelest experiments motivated by racism was the sterilization of over 20,000 Jews and some Germans. The sterilization was meant to prevent "genetically defective" people and without hesitation all Jews, to reproduce and live among Germans. The many ways the victims were sterilized varied from institutions. Straight injections to the genitals were common and the best way to sterilize was through radiation because after a lot of it the genitals stopped reproducing sperm/ovary eggs.
War time experiments.
During the war the Nazis did experiments to help them during the war. Some of the best known experiments were the freezing experiments and the atmospheric pressure or high altitude experiments. When Nazi pilots got shot down in the North Sea, they ejected themselves from the plane and in almost all cases they died in the sea. Also to help troops in Russia fight hypothermia. To help pilots survive the freezing temperatures, doctors would use Jewish prisoners and submerged them in tubs of water with the temperature as low as 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Most times the victims would either die from the initial shock, or if they did survive that they would die soon afterward. Those who survived were thrown into boiling water to rewarm them, another way they died. As many as 100 people died from these experiments. Altitude experiments were used to see how long a soldier can survive after ejecting from a plane. Prisoners were put into low-pressure chamber and simulated heights of 20,000 meters. If the victims survived, then Nazi doctors would preform vivisection's on their brains. Of 200 experimented on, 80 died at once and the others were executed. The picture above is an example of the high altitude experiments.
Other unethical experiments.
Other experiments conducted were considered inhumane and pointless. Just to mention a few because there is an extensive list. There were experiments on twins. The Nazis sought to find the genetic differences between them. Nazi doctors deliberately injected prisoners with diseases and viruses such as malaria. They also tested the victims with immunizations and most times they would die because their bodies would react in a bad way. They conducted sea water experiments. The Nazis gave prisoners sea water and only sea water. They were trying to purify sea water. Most given sea water died. The most infamous of these experiments was the "final solution", later known as the holocaust. It was meant to kill off Jews, blacks, homosexuals, gypsies, and any ethnic minority considered "inferior to the Aryan race". At the end of the war more than 17 million were systematically killed in mass killings.
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