Experiments and Torture

EXPERIMENTATION Experiments and Torture

Some of the information is taken from Nazi Human Experimentation

Human Experimentation

• Experiments on twins• Bone, muscle, limb and nerve transplant • Freezing experiments• Head injury • Malaria inoculation• Sulphonamide experiments • Sterilization • Air pressure experiments

Experimentation Classification

• Axis survival methods

• Developing and testing pharmaceuticals

• Advance racial and ideological views

Freezing

• Victims were placed in cold water/air• Experiments to try to treat hypothermia • Assessed methods of re-warming victims• 100 reported deaths from freezing alone• Mengele was the main conductor of these trials• Predominately at Auschwitz and Dachau• Results published in 1942

Sea Water

• 90 Gypsies were included in the experiment• One group fed sea water• Second group fed an altered flavour of sea

water• Became extremely dehydrated• Seen licking the floor

Sterilization

• March 19th 1941- January 1945• Conducted mainly at Auschwitz, and Ravensbruck • Try to develop a quick and easy Sterilization method • X-ray, Surgery, and Various drugs• 400,000 victims were sterilized • Some Experiments were successful • Radiation treatment was favoured

High-Altitude Experiments

• Tried to resuscitate pilots after abandonment• Simulated high altitudes• Live vivisections of subjects• 45 percent died in the experiments• Predominately at Dachau concentration camp

Malaria Inoculation

• Investigate an immunization • Inmates were intentionally

infected • Subjects treated with various

drugs• 1100 subjects in the experiment• Majority of the subjects died

Mustard Gas

• Conducted at Sachsenhausen and other camps

• Deliberately exposed to gas• Acquired severe burns• Wounds were tested to find

treatment

Mengele's Children

• Iris changing • Shots and Diseases• Surgeries• Amputation • Conjoined Twins

TORTUREExperiments and Torture

Nazi Torture

• Pealed skin off like a glove• Thumb Screws• Penetrated hands with hot

poker• Hangings • Gash open feet • Shocking • Pulling off ears• Rape

• Ilse Koch• Irma Grese • Juana Bormann• Ewa Paradies

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Strappado Hanging

• Also known as Palestinian Hanging or Reverse Hanging• Wrists are bound behind the back• Weight added to intensify pain • Slowly lowered to add pain• Very common means of torture• Used for infringement of camp rules • Would be public to scare other camp prisoners • Night Sticks were rammed in person’s anal and vaginal cavities

Torture Misconception

• Complex torture devices were not used• Nazi’s did not keep prisoners around long

enough• Various tortures were done as punishment• Their goal was to get rid of the Jews, not

torture them

Ilse Koch

• Famously known as the bitch of Buchenwald• Known as the infamous Jewish inmate tattoo

collector• Forced inmates to rape other inmates• Found interesting tattoos and would skin them to

make lampshades and handbags• Had pleasure in showing off the handbags to inmates

Irma Grese

• Known as Beautiful Beast• Released starved dogs upon prisoner • Would beat and whip prisoners to death• Selected prisoners to be sent to gas chambers• Youngest Nazi to get executed

Juana Bormann

• Known as the Wiesel • Would unleash wolfhounds

on prisons• Beat sick inmates• Beat workers with wooden

and rubber sticks

Ewa Paradies

• Committed depraved acts• Stripped women in winter

and poured cold water on them

• Would beat any women who moved during her tortures