Experiments during the war. Nazi concentration camps, torture

We can all agree that the Nazis did terrible things during World War II. The Holocaust was perhaps their most famous crime. But in concentration camps there were terrible and inhuman things that most people did not know about. The camp inmates were used as test subjects in many experiments that were very painful and usually resulted in death.
blood clotting experiments

Dr. Sigmund Rascher performed blood clotting experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. He created a drug, Polygal, which included beets and apple pectin. He believed that these pills could help stop bleeding from battle wounds or during surgical operations.

Each subject was given a tablet of the drug and shot in the neck or chest to test its effectiveness. The limbs were then amputated without anesthesia. Dr. Rascher created a company to produce these pills, which also employed prisoners.

Experiments with sulfa drugs


In the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the effectiveness of sulfonamides (or sulfanilamide preparations) was tested on prisoners. Subjects were given incisions on the outside of their calves. The doctors then rubbed the mixture of bacteria into the open wounds and stitched them up. To simulate combat situations, glass fragments were also brought into the wounds.

However, this method turned out to be too mild compared to the conditions at the fronts. To simulate gunshot wounds, blood vessels were tied off on both sides to cut off blood circulation. Then the prisoners were given sulfa drugs. Despite the advances made in the scientific and pharmaceutical fields through these experiments, the prisoners experienced terrible pain that led to severe injury or even death.

Freezing and Hypothermia Experiments


The German armies were ill-prepared for the cold that they faced on the Eastern Front and from which thousands of soldiers died. As a result, Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Dachau to find out two things: the time required for the body temperature to drop and death, and methods for reviving frozen people.

Naked prisoners were either placed in a barrel of ice water, or driven out into the street in sub-zero temperatures. Most of the victims died. Those who only fainted were subjected to painful resuscitation procedures. Subjects were placed under lamps to revive them. sunlight, which burned their skin, forced them to copulate with women, injected boiling water or placed them in baths with warm water (which turned out to be the most effective method).

Experiments with firebombs


For three months in 1943 and 1944, Buchenwald prisoners were tested for the effectiveness of pharmaceutical preparations against phosphorus burns caused by incendiary bombs. The test subjects were specially burned with a phosphorus composition from these bombs, which was a very painful procedure. Prisoners were seriously injured during these experiments.

sea ​​water experiments


Experiments were conducted on Dachau prisoners to find ways to turn sea water into drinking water. The test subjects were divided into four groups, whose members did without water, drank sea ​​water, drank Burke-treated seawater, and drank seawater without salt.

Subjects were given food and drink assigned to their group. Prisoners who received some form of sea water eventually suffered severe diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, went insane, and eventually died.

In addition, the subjects were subjected to needle biopsy of the liver or lumbar punctures to collect data. These procedures were painful and in most cases ended in death.

Experiments with poisons

In Buchenwald, experiments were carried out on the effects of poisons on people. In 1943, poisons were secretly administered to prisoners.

Some died themselves from poisoned food. Others were killed for the sake of an autopsy. A year later, poisoned bullets were fired at the prisoners to speed up data collection. These test subjects experienced terrible torment.

Experiments with sterilization


As part of the extermination of all non-Aryans, Nazi doctors conducted mass sterilization experiments on prisoners from various concentration camps in search of the least laborious and cheapest method of sterilization.

In one series of experiments, a chemical irritant was injected into the reproductive organs of women to block the fallopian tubes. Some women have died after this procedure. Other women were killed for autopsies.

In a number of other experiments, prisoners were subjected to intense X-ray radiation, which led to severe burns on the abdomen, groin and buttocks. They were also left with incurable ulcers. Some test subjects died.

Bone, muscle and nerve regeneration and bone grafting experiments


For about a year, experiments were carried out on the prisoners of Ravensbrück to regenerate bones, muscles and nerves. Nerve surgeries included the removal of segments of nerves from the lower limbs.

Bone experiments included breaking and repositioning bones in several places on the lower extremities. Fractures were not allowed to heal properly as doctors needed to study the healing process and also test different healing methods.

Doctors also removed numerous fragments of the tibia from the test subjects to study bone regeneration. Bone grafts included transplanting fragments of the left tibia to the right and vice versa. These experiments caused unbearable pain and severe injuries to the prisoners.

Experiments with typhus


From the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1945, doctors conducted experiments on the prisoners of Buchenwald and Natzweiler in the interests of the German armed forces. They were testing vaccines for typhus and other diseases.

Approximately 75% of test subjects were injected with trial typhoid or other vaccines. chemical substances. They were injected with a virus. As a result, more than 90% of them died.

The remaining 25% of the test subjects were injected with the virus without any prior protection. Most of them did not survive. Physicians also conducted experiments related to yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid, and other diseases. Hundreds of prisoners died, and more prisoners suffered unbearable pain as a result.

Twin experiments and genetic experiments


The purpose of the Holocaust was the elimination of all people of non-Aryan origin. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals and other people who did not meet certain requirements were to be exterminated so that only the "superior" Aryan race remained. genetic experiments were carried out to provide the Nazi Party with scientific evidence of the superiority of the Aryans.

Dr. Josef Mengele (also known as the "Angel of Death") had a strong interest in the twins. He separated them from the rest of the prisoners when they entered Auschwitz. The twins had to donate blood every day. The real purpose of this procedure is unknown.

The experiments with twins were extensive. They were to be carefully examined and every centimeter of their body measured. After that, comparisons were made to determine hereditary traits. Sometimes doctors performed mass blood transfusions from one twin to the other.

Since people of Aryan origin mostly had Blue eyes, to create them, experiments were carried out with chemical drops or injections into the iris of the eye. These procedures were very painful and led to infections and even blindness.

Injections and lumbar punctures were done without anesthesia. One twin deliberately contracted the disease, and the other did not. If one twin died, the other twin was killed and studied for comparison.

Amputations and removals of organs were also performed without anesthesia. Most of the twins who ended up in the concentration camp died in one way or another, and their autopsies were the last experiments.

Experiments with high altitudes


From March to August 1942, the prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were used as experimental subjects in experiments to test human endurance at high altitudes. The results of these experiments were to help the German air force.

The test subjects were placed in a low pressure chamber, which created atmospheric conditions at altitudes up to 21,000 meters. Most of the test subjects died, and the survivors suffered from various injuries from being at high altitudes.

Experiments with malaria


Over the course of more than three years, more than 1,000 Dachau prisoners were used in a series of experiments related to the search for a cure for malaria. Healthy prisoners were infected by mosquitoes or extracts from these mosquitoes.

Prisoners who contracted malaria were then treated with various drugs to test their effectiveness. Many prisoners died. The surviving prisoners suffered greatly and were mostly disabled for the rest of their lives.

March 6, 1911 was born Josef Mengele - a German doctor who conducted medical experiments on the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Mengele personally engaged in the selection of prisoners arriving at the camp, conducted criminal experiments on prisoners, including men, children and women. Tens of thousands of people became its victims.

Horrible experiments of Dr. Mengele - Nazi "Dr. Death"

"Death Factory" Auschwitz (Auschwitz) more and more overgrown with terrible glory. If in the rest of the concentration camps there was at least some hope of surviving, then most of the Jews, Gypsies and Slavs staying in Auschwitz were destined to die either in gas chambers, or from overwork and serious illnesses, or from the experiments of a sinister doctor who was one of the first persons meeting new arrivals at the train.

Auschwitz was known as a place where experiments were carried out on people.

Participation in the selection was one of his favorite "entertainments". He always came to the train, even when it was not required of him. Looking perfect, smiling, happy, he decided who would die now and who would go for experiments. It was difficult to deceive his keen eyes: Mengele always accurately saw the age and state of health of people. Many women, children under 15, and the elderly were immediately sent to the gas chambers. Only 30 percent of the prisoners managed to avoid this fate and postpone the date of their death for a while.

Dr. Mengele has always accurately seen the age and health of people

Josef Mengele craved power over human destinies. It is not surprising that Auschwitz became a real paradise for the Angel of Death, who was able to exterminate hundreds of thousands of defenseless people at a time, which he demonstrated in the very first days of work in a new place, when he ordered the destruction of 200,000 gypsies.

The chief physician of Birkenau (one of the inner camps of Auschwitz) and the head of the research laboratory, Dr. Josef Mengele.

“On the night of July 31, 1944, there was a terrible scene of the destruction of the gypsy camp. Kneeling before Mengele and Boger, women and children begged for mercy. But it did not help. They were brutally beaten and forced into trucks. It was a terrible, nightmarish sight, ”surviving eyewitnesses say.

Human life meant nothing to the Angel of Death. Mengele was cruel and merciless. Is there a typhus epidemic in the barracks? So we send the whole barrack to the gas chambers. This the best remedy stop the disease.

Josef Mengele chose who to live and who to die, who to sterilize, who to operate

All the experiments of the Angel of Death boiled down to two main tasks: to find an effective way that could influence the reduction in the birth rate of races objectionable to the Nazis, and by all means to increase the birth rate of the Aryans.

Mengele also had his associates and followers. One of them was Irma Grese, a sadist who works as a warden in the women's block. She enjoyed tormenting the prisoners, she could take the lives of prisoners only because she was in a bad mood.

The head of the labor service of the women's block of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Irma Grese, and his commandant, SS Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Josef Kramer, under British escort in the courtyard of the celle prison, Germany.

Josef Mengele had followers. For example, Irma Grese, who can take the lives of prisoners because of a bad mood

Josef Mengele's first task to reduce the birth rate was to develop the most effective method of sterilization for men and women. So he operated on boys and men without anesthesia and exposed women to x-rays.

To reduce the birth rate of Jews, Slavs and Gypsies, Mengele proposed the development of an effective method for sterilizing men and women.

1945 Poland. Auschwitz concentration camp. Children, prisoners of the camp, are waiting for their release.

Eugenics, if we turn to encyclopedias, is the doctrine of human selection, that is, the science that seeks to improve the properties of heredity. Scientists making discoveries in eugenics argue that the human gene pool is degenerating and this must be fought.

Josef Mengele believed that in order to breed a pure race, it is necessary to understand the reasons for the appearance of people with genetic "anomalies"

Josef Mengele, as a representative of eugenics, faced an important task: in order to breed a pure race, one must understand the reasons for the appearance of people with genetic "anomalies". That is why the Angel of Death was of great interest to dwarfs, giants and other people with genetic abnormalities.

Seven brothers and sisters, originally from the Romanian town of Roswell, lived in the labor camp for almost a year.

When it came to experiments, people had their teeth and hair pulled out, extracts of cerebrospinal fluid were taken, unbearably hot and unbearably cold substances were poured into their ears, and terrible gynecological experiments were performed.

“The most terrible experiments of all were gynecological. Only those of us who were married passed through them. We were tied to a table, and systematic torture began. They introduced some objects into the uterus, pumped out blood from there, opened up the insides, pierced us with something and took pieces of samples. The pain was unbearable."

The results of the experiments were sent to Germany. Many learned minds came to Auschwitz to listen to Josef Mengele's lectures on eugenics and experiments on midgets.

Many learned minds came to Auschwitz to listen to reports by Josef Mengele

"Twins!" - this cry was carried over the crowd of prisoners, when the next twins or triplets timidly clinging to each other were suddenly discovered. They were spared their lives, taken to a separate barracks, where the children were well fed and even given toys. A cute smiling doctor with a steely look often came to them: treated them with sweets, drove around the camp in a car. However, Mengele did all this not out of sympathy and not out of love for the children, but only with the cold expectation that they would not be afraid of his appearance when the time came for the next twins to go to the operating table. "My guinea pigs" called the twin children the merciless Doctor Death.

Interest in twins was not accidental. Mengele worried main idea: if every German woman, instead of one child, immediately gives birth to two or three healthy ones, the Aryan race will finally be able to be reborn. That is why it was very important for the Angel of Death to study to the smallest detail all the structural features of identical twins. He hoped to understand how to artificially increase the birth rate of twins.

In experiments on twins, 1500 pairs of twins were involved, of which only 200 survived.

The first part of the twin experiments was harmless enough. The doctor had to carefully examine each pair of twins and compare all their body parts. Centimeter by centimeter measured arms, legs, fingers, hands, ears and noses.

All measurements Angel of Death scrupulously recorded in the table. Everything is as it should be: on the shelves, neatly, accurately. As soon as the measurements were over, the experiments on the twins moved into another phase. It was very important to check the body's reactions to certain stimuli. For this, one of the twins was taken: he was injected with some dangerous virus, and the doctor observed: what will happen next? All results were again recorded and compared with the results of the other twin. If a child became very ill and was on the verge of death, then he was no longer interesting: he, while still alive, was either opened or sent to the gas chamber.

Josef Mengel in his experiments on twins involved 1500 pairs, of which only 200 survived

The twins received blood transfusions, transplanted internal organs (often from a pair of other twins), injected coloring segments into their eyes (to test whether brown Jewish eyes could become blue Aryan ones). Many experiments were carried out without anesthesia. Children screamed, begged for mercy, but nothing could stop Mengele.

The idea is primary, the life of "little people" is secondary. Dr. Mengele dreamed of turning the world (in particular, the world of genetics) with his discoveries.

So the Angel of Death decided to create Siamese twins by sewing gypsy twins together. The children suffered terrible torment, blood poisoning began.

Josef Mengele with a colleague at the Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics. Kaiser Wilhelm. Late 1930s.

Doing terrible deeds and conducting inhuman experiments on people, Josef Mengele everywhere hides behind science and his idea. At the same time, many of his experiments were not only inhumane, but also meaningless, not carrying any discovery to science. Experiments for the sake of experiments, torture, pain.

The families of Ovits and Shlomovits and 168 twins waited for the long-awaited freedom. The children ran to meet their rescuers, crying and hugging. Is the nightmare over? No, he will now haunt the survivors for life. When they feel bad or when they are sick, the ominous shadow of the insane Doctor Death and the horrors of Auschwitz will again appear to them. It was as if time had turned back and they were back in their 10 barracks.

Auschwitz, children in a camp liberated by the Red Army, 1945.

The medical experiments of the Nazis on people in concentration camps, even today, terrify the most stable minds. A whole series of scientific experiments were carried out by the Nazis on innocent prisoners during the Second World War. As a rule, most of the experiments led to the death of the prisoner.

In one of the most famous concentration camps, Auschwitz, located in Poland, under the supervision of Professor Eduard Wirts, disgusting experiments were carried out, the purpose of which was to improve the military weapons of soldiers, as well as to treat them. Such experiments were carried out not only for technological breakthroughs, the purpose was also to confirm the racial theory that Adolf Hitler believed in. After the end of the Second World War, the Nuremberg trials were held, in which twenty-three people were accused, who are essentially real serial maniacs, among whom were twenty doctors, as well as one lawyer, and a couple of officials. Subsequently, seven doctors were sentenced to death, five people received life sentences, seven people were acquitted, and four more people were sentenced to various prison terms that ranged from ten to twenty years in prison.

°Experiments on twins°

Nazi medical experiments on children who at that time were not lucky enough to be born twins and ended up in concentration camps were carried out by Nazi scientists to detect differences and similarities in the structure of the DNA of the twins. The name of the doctor involved in this kind of experiments was Josef Mengele. According to historians, during his work, Josef killed more than four hundred thousand prisoners in the gas chambers. The German scientist conducted his experiments on 1500 pairs of twins, of which only two hundred pairs survived. Basically, all experiments on children were carried out in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

The twins were divided into groups, according to age and status, and were placed in specialized barracks. The experiences were truly horrendous. Various chemicals were injected into the twins' eyes. Children were also tried to artificially change the color of the eyes. It is also known that the twins were sewn together, thereby trying to recreate the phenomenon of Siamese twins. Experiments to change the color of the eyes often ended in the death of the subject, as well as infection of the retina, and complete loss of vision. Josef Mengele very often infected one of the twins, and then did an autopsy on both children and compared the organs of the affected and normal body.

°Hypothermia experiments°

At the very beginning of the war, a series of experiments on hypothermia of the human body was carried out in the German air force. The method of cooling a person was the same, the test subject was placed in a barrel of ice water for several hours. It is also known for sure that there was another mocking method of cooling the human body. The prisoner was simply driven out into the street in cold weather, naked, and kept there for three hours. The goal of the scientists was to find ways to save a person who has undergone hypothermia.

The course of the experiment was monitored by the supreme circles of the command of Nazi Germany. Most often, experiments were carried out on men in order to study the ways in which the fascist troops could easily endure the severe frosts on the Eastern European front. It was the frosts, for which the German troops were not prepared, that caused the defeat of Germany on the Eastern Front.

Research was carried out for the most part in the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps. The German physician, and part-time employee of the Ahnenerbe, Sigmund Rascher, reported only to the Reich Minister of the Interior, Heinrich Himmler. In 1942, at a conference on the study of the oceans and the winter season, Ruscher gave a speech from which one could learn about the results of his medical experiments in concentration camps. The research was divided into several stages. At the first stage, German scientists studied how long a person can live with minimum temperature. The second stage was the resuscitation and rescue of the experimental subject, who had undergone severe frostbite.

Experiments were also conducted, during which they studied how to instantly warm a person. The first method of warming consisted of lowering the subject into a tank of hot water. In the second case, the frozen one was settled on a naked woman, and then another one was settled on him. Women for the experiment were selected from among those held in the concentration camp. The best result was achieved in the first case.

The results of the research showed that it is almost impossible to save a person who has undergone frostbite in the water if the back of the head was also subjected to frostbite. In this regard, special life jackets were developed that prevented the back of the head from sinking into the water. This made it possible to save the head of a person wearing a vest from frostbite of brain stem cells. These days, a similar headrest is available in almost all lifejackets.

°Experiments with malaria°

These Nazi medical experiments were carried out from the beginning of 1942 to mid-1945, on the territory of Nazi Germany in the Dachau concentration camp. Research was carried out, during which German doctors and pharmacists worked on the invention of a vaccine against an infectious disease - malaria. For the experiment, physically healthy test subjects aged 25 to 40 years were specially selected, and they were infected with the help of mosquitoes that carried the infection. After the prisoners were infected, they were given a course of treatment with various drugs and injections, which in turn were also under testing. More than one thousand people were involved in the forced participation in the experiments. More than five hundred people died during the experiments. The German physician, SS Sturmbannführer Kurt Plötner was responsible for the research.

°Mustard Gas Experiments°

From the autumn of 1939 to the spring of 1945, near the city of Oranienburg, in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, as well as in other camps in Germany, experiments were carried out with mustard gas. The aim of the research was to identify the most effective ways treatment of wounds after skin exposure to this type of gas. Prisoners were doused with mustard gas, which, when applied to the surface of the skin, caused severe chemical burns. After that, doctors studied the wounds to find the most effective medicine for this type of burns.

°Experiments with sulfanilamide°

From the summer of 1942 to the autumn of 1943, studies were carried out on the use of antibacterial drugs. One such drug is sulfanilamide. People were deliberately shot with gunshot wounds in the leg and infected with anaerobic gangrene, tetanus and streptococcus bacteria. Blood circulation was stopped by applying tourniquets on both sides of the wound. Crushed glass and wood shavings were also poured into the wound. The resulting bacterial inflammation was treated with sulfanilamide, as well as other drugs, to see how effective they were. The medical experiments of the Nazis were led by Karl Franz Gebhardt, who was on friendly terms with the SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler himself.

°Experiments with sea water°

Scientific experiments were carried out in the Dachau concentration camp, approximately from the summer to the autumn of 1944. The purpose of the experiments was to find out how fresh water can be obtained from sea water, that is, one that would be suitable for human consumption. A group of prisoners was created, in which there were about 90 gypsies. During the experiment, they did not receive food, and drank only sea water. As a result, their bodies were so dehydrated that people licked moisture from the freshly washed floor in the hope of getting at least a drop of water. Responsible for the research was Wilhelm Beiglböck, who received fifteen years in prison at the Nuremberg trials of doctors.

°Sterilization experiments°

The experiments were carried out from the spring of 1941 to the winter of 1945 in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and other concentration camps. The German physician Karl Klauberg supervised the research. The aim of the research was sterilization a large number people, at minimal cost time, finance and effort. During the medical experiments of the Nazis, radiography, various medications, and surgical operations were used. As a result, after the experiments, thousands of people lost the opportunity to procreate. It is also known that fascist doctors, on the orders of the highest circles of Nazi Germany, sterilized more than four hundred thousand people.

During the experiments, iodine and silver nitrate were often used, which were injected into the human body with the help of syringes. As German doctors found out, these injections are very effective. However, they caused many side effects such as: cervical cancer, severe abdominal pain, and vaginal bleeding. Because of this, it was decided to give the prisoners radiation exposure.

As it turned out, a small dose of X-rays can provoke infertility in the human body. After irradiation, the man ceases to produce sperm, in turn, the woman does not produce eggs. In most cases, irradiation occurred through deception. Subjects were invited to a small room where they were asked to complete a questionnaire. It took a matter of minutes to complete the questionnaire. During filling, the human body was exposed to x-rays. Thus, after visiting such rooms, people themselves, without knowing it, became completely barren. There are cases when, during exposure, a person received severe radiation burns.

°Experiments with Poisons°

Nazi medical experiments with poisons were carried out from the winter of 1943 to the autumn of 1944 in the Bachenwalde concentration camp, in which approximately 250,000 people were imprisoned. Various poisons were secretly mixed into the prisoners' food, and their reactions were observed. The prisoners died after being poisoned, and were also killed by the guards of the concentration camp to perform an autopsy of the body, through which the poison did not have time to spread. It is known that in the fall of 1944, prisoners were shot with bullets containing poison, and then gunshot wounds were examined.

°Pressure Experiments°

In the winter of 1942, experiments were carried out on prisoners at Dachau, for which SS-Hauptsturmführer Sigmund Rascher was responsible. After the war, he was executed for his inhuman crimes. The purpose of the experiments was to study the health problems of Luftwaffe pilots who flew at very high altitudes. We simulated the presence of the experimental at high altitudes using a pressure chamber. Historians believe that after the experiments, Zygmunt also practiced vivisection on the brain - this is a type of operation during which a person is conscious. During the experiments, out of two hundred prisoners, eighty people died, the remaining one hundred and twenty were executed.

The Auschwitz prisoners were released four months before the end of World War II. By that time there were few of them left. Almost one and a half million people died, most of them were Jews. For several years, the investigation continued, which led to terrible discoveries: people not only died in gas chambers, but also became victims of Dr. Mengele, who used them as guinea pigs.

Auschwitz: the history of one city

A small Polish town, in which more than a million innocent people were killed, is called Auschwitz all over the world. We call it Auschwitz. A concentration camp, experiments on gas chambers, torture, executions - all these words have been associated with the name of the city for more than 70 years.

It will sound rather strange in Russian Ich lebe in Auschwitz - "I live in Auschwitz." Is it possible to live in Auschwitz? They learned about the experiments on women in the concentration camp after the end of the war. Over the years, new facts have been discovered. One is scarier than the other. The truth about the camp called shocked the whole world. Research is still ongoing today. Many books have been written and many films have been made on the subject. Auschwitz has entered our symbol of a painful, difficult death.

Where did mass murders of children take place and terrible experiments were carried out on women? In Which city do millions of inhabitants on earth associate with the phrase "factory of death"? Auschwitz.

Experiments on people were carried out in a camp located near the city, which today is home to 40,000 people. It is a quiet town with a good climate. Auschwitz is first mentioned in historical documents in the twelfth century. In the XIII century there were already so many Germans here that their language began to prevail over Polish. In the 17th century, the city was captured by the Swedes. In 1918 it became Polish again. After 20 years, a camp was organized here, on the territory of which crimes took place, the likes of which mankind had not yet known.

Gas chamber or experiment

In the early forties, the answer to the question of where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located was known only to those who were doomed to death. Unless, of course, do not take into account the SS. Some of the prisoners, fortunately, survived. Later they talked about what happened within the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Experiments on women and children, which were conducted by a man whose name terrified the prisoners, is a terrible truth that not everyone is ready to listen to.

The gas chamber is a terrible invention of the Nazis. But there are things even worse. Christina Zhivulskaya is one of the few who managed to get out of Auschwitz alive. In her book of memoirs, she mentions a case: a prisoner, sentenced to death by Dr. Mengel, does not go, but runs into the gas chamber. Because death from poisonous gas is not as terrible as the torment from the experiments of the same Mengele.

The creators of the "factory of death"

So what is Auschwitz? This is a camp that was originally intended for political prisoners. The author of the idea is Erich Bach-Zalewski. This man had the rank of SS Gruppenführer, during the Second World War he led punitive operations. With his light hand dozens were sentenced to death. He took an active part in the suppression of the uprising that took place in Warsaw in 1944.

The assistants of the SS Gruppenfuehrer found a suitable place in a small Polish town. There were already military barracks here, in addition, the railway communication was well established. In 1940, a man named came here. He will be hanged at the gas chambers by the decision of the Polish court. But this will happen two years after the end of the war. And then, in 1940, Hess liked these places. He set to work with great enthusiasm.

Inhabitants of the concentration camp

This camp did not immediately become a "factory of death". At first, mainly Polish prisoners were sent here. Only a year after the camp was organized, a tradition appeared to display a serial number on the prisoner's hand. More and more Jews were brought in every month. By the end of the existence of Auschwitz, they accounted for 90% of the total number of prisoners. The number of SS men here also grew steadily. In total, the concentration camp received about six thousand overseers, punishers and other "specialists". Many of them were put on trial. Some disappeared without a trace, including Josef Mengele, whose experiments terrified the prisoners for several years.

We will not give the exact number of victims of Auschwitz here. Let's just say that more than two hundred children died in the camp. Most of them were sent to the gas chambers. Some fell into the hand of Josef Mengele. But this man was not the only one who conducted experiments on people. Another so-called doctor is Carl Clauberg.

Starting in 1943, a huge number of prisoners entered the camp. Most had to be destroyed. But the organizers of the concentration camp were practical people, and therefore decided to take advantage of the situation and use a certain part of the prisoners as material for research.

Carl Cauberg

This man supervised the experiments conducted on women. His victims were predominantly Jews and Gypsies. The experiments included the removal of organs, the testing of new drugs, and irradiation. What kind of person is Karl Cauberg? Who is he? In what family did you grow up, how was his life? And most importantly, where did the cruelty that goes beyond human understanding come from?

By the beginning of the war, Karl Cauberg was already 41 years old. In the twenties, he served as chief physician at the clinic at the University of Königsberg. Kaulberg was not a hereditary doctor. He was born into a family of artisans. Why he decided to connect his life with medicine is unknown. But there is evidence according to which, in the First World War, he served as an infantryman. Then he graduated from the University of Hamburg. Apparently, medicine fascinated him so much that he refused a military career. But Kaulberg was not interested in medicine, but in research. In the early forties, he began to search for the most practical way to sterilize women who did not belong to the Aryan race. For experiments, he was transferred to Auschwitz.

Kaulberg's experiments

The experiments consisted in the introduction of a special solution into the uterus, which led to serious violations. After the experiment, the reproductive organs were removed and sent to Berlin for further research. There is no data on exactly how many women became victims of this "scientist". After the end of the war, he was captured, but soon, just seven years later, oddly enough, he was released according to an agreement on the exchange of prisoners of war. Returning to Germany, Kaulberg did not suffer from remorse at all. On the contrary, he was proud of his "achievements in science." As a result, complaints began to come in from people who had suffered from Nazism. He was arrested again in 1955. He spent even less time in prison this time. He died two years after his arrest.

Josef Mengele

The prisoners called this man "the angel of death". Josef Mengele personally met the trains with new prisoners and conducted the selection. Some went to the gas chambers. Others are at work. The third he used in his experiments. One of the prisoners of Auschwitz described this man as follows: "Tall, with a pleasant appearance, like a movie actor." He never raised his voice, he spoke politely - and this terrified the prisoners in particular.

From the biography of the Angel of Death

Josef Mengele was the son of a German entrepreneur. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and anthropology. In the early thirties, he joined the Nazi organization, but soon, for health reasons, left it. In 1932, Mengele joined the SS. During the war he served in the medical troops and even received the Iron Cross for bravery, but was wounded and declared unfit for service. Mengele spent several months in the hospital. After recovery, he was sent to Auschwitz, where he launched his scientific activities.

Selection

Selecting victims for experiments was Mengele's favorite pastime. The doctor only needed one look at the prisoner in order to determine the state of his health. He sent most of the prisoners to the gas chambers. And only a few captives managed to delay death. It was hard to deal with those in whom Mengele saw "guinea pigs."

Most likely, this person suffered extreme form mental disorder. He enjoyed even the thought that he had in his hands a huge amount of human lives. That is why he was always next to the arriving train. Even when it was not required of him. His criminal actions were guided not only by the desire for scientific research, but also by the desire to rule. Just one word of his was enough to send tens or hundreds of people to the gas chambers. Those that were sent to the laboratories became the material for experiments. But what was the purpose of these experiments?

An invincible faith in the Aryan utopia, obvious mental deviations - these are the components of the personality of Josef Mengele. All his experiments were aimed at creating a new tool that could stop the reproduction of representatives of objectionable peoples. Mengele not only equated himself with God, he placed himself above him.

Josef Mengele's experiments

The angel of death dissected babies, castrated boys and men. He performed operations without anesthesia. Experiments on women consisted of high voltage shocks. He conducted these experiments in order to test endurance. Mengele once sterilized several Polish nuns with x-ray radiation. But the main passion of the "doctor of death" was experiments on twins and people with physical defects.

To each his own

On the gates of Auschwitz was written: Arbeit macht frei, which means "work sets you free." The words Jedem das Seine were also present here. Translated into Russian - "To each his own." On the gates of Auschwitz, at the entrance to the camp, in which more than a million people died, a saying of the ancient Greek sages appeared. The principle of justice was used by the SS as the motto of the most cruel idea in the history of mankind.

It is known that Nazi doctors conducted numerous experiments on prisoners of war, prisoners of concentration camps. These were both men and women. Experiments were even carried out on the Germans.

Experiments on prisoners in concentration camps are known for their unprecedented cruelty. Such experiments, by the way, were very diverse. The test subjects could be placed in pressure chambers, and then different altitude regimes were tested on them. This was done until the moment when people stopped breathing.

Also, experiments on prisoners in concentration camps were carried out in other forms. People were injected with lethal doses of germs of hepatitis, typhoid. They were also subjected to freezing experiments in very cold water.

Nazi Germany is notorious for the horrors in the concentration camps.

The horror of the Nazi camp system was terror and arbitrariness.

Scientific research was organized on a large scale.

People were taken out naked into the cold until they froze.

They also tested the effect of poisoned bullets, mustard gas.

In the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück, hundreds of Polish girls were wounded and driven to gangrene.

Others were "experimented" in bone grafting.

In Buchenwald, gypsies were selected and tested for how long and how a person can live on salt water.

In many camps experiments on sterilization of men and women were widely carried out.

The possibility of maintaining the working capacity of people under conditions of excessive loads has been actively investigated.

New drugs were also tested.

Experiments with malaria.

There were also experiments with mustard gas.