Nazi Germanys Experimentation on Human Subjects
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Bioethics fall 2011
Research Paper
Deborah Williams
11-18-11
Nazi Germanys Experimentation on Human Subjects
Hitler’s Rise to power in Nazi Germany, 1933, shed a very bright light onto human experimentation during the years of the Second World War, and for a very long period after. The Nazi ideology of perfection caused the death of more than 2million people who were thought of as ill or and not pure Aryan. During this period the Nazis not only targeted the Jews, but also Slavs, Religious groups, Gypsies, Communist, Gay men, Gay women, mentally and Physically disabled people, among them also native Germans who were seen as unfit to society. No man, women, child, or infant could escape the death strike that Germany was allowing their unfit leader, to go on. Absolutely no one, was safe. Especially the tragic persons that were stuck behind the toturous iron gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, or Chelmno, which was strictly an extermination camp.
An infamous SS Doctor who oversaw the collection of arriving transports of innocents, had the ability to determine who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer. The other SS who helped unload the transports had been given special instructions to find twins, dwarfs, giants, or anyone else with a unique hereditary trait like a club foot or heterochromia (each eye a different color). Mengele had a very special interest, mainly “Zwillinge” (German for twins), or dwarfed gypsy children. But this “Doctor” is far more infamous for performing gruesome unethical human experiments, with no discriminations on who he chose, including children, for which Dr. Josef Mengele was coined the devilish name, the "Angel of Death." “He was deemed responsible for 400,000 deaths.”(Farmington, Gale) Mengele's handsome physical appearance, Exceptional dress, and calm demeanor greatly contradicted his attraction to all the murder and gruesome experiments.
Josef was absolutely infatuated with twins. Most of the...
Research Paper
Deborah Williams
11-18-11
Nazi Germanys Experimentation on Human Subjects
Hitler’s Rise to power in Nazi Germany, 1933, shed a very bright light onto human experimentation during the years of the Second World War, and for a very long period after. The Nazi ideology of perfection caused the death of more than 2million people who were thought of as ill or and not pure Aryan. During this period the Nazis not only targeted the Jews, but also Slavs, Religious groups, Gypsies, Communist, Gay men, Gay women, mentally and Physically disabled people, among them also native Germans who were seen as unfit to society. No man, women, child, or infant could escape the death strike that Germany was allowing their unfit leader, to go on. Absolutely no one, was safe. Especially the tragic persons that were stuck behind the toturous iron gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, or Chelmno, which was strictly an extermination camp.
An infamous SS Doctor who oversaw the collection of arriving transports of innocents, had the ability to determine who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer. The other SS who helped unload the transports had been given special instructions to find twins, dwarfs, giants, or anyone else with a unique hereditary trait like a club foot or heterochromia (each eye a different color). Mengele had a very special interest, mainly “Zwillinge” (German for twins), or dwarfed gypsy children. But this “Doctor” is far more infamous for performing gruesome unethical human experiments, with no discriminations on who he chose, including children, for which Dr. Josef Mengele was coined the devilish name, the "Angel of Death." “He was deemed responsible for 400,000 deaths.”(Farmington, Gale) Mengele's handsome physical appearance, Exceptional dress, and calm demeanor greatly contradicted his attraction to all the murder and gruesome experiments.
Josef was absolutely infatuated with twins. Most of the...