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Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There were 15,754 documented victims, of various nationalities and age groups, although the true number is believed to be more extensive.
Josef Rudolf Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). [1]
Although Block 10 was in Auschwitz I, a part of the camp mainly used for male political prisoners, the experiments conducted were mostly on women. The main doctors who worked in Block 10 were Carl Clauberg, Horst Schumann, Eduard Wirths, Bruno Weber and August Hirt. Each of them had different methods in doing experiments on the inmates.
In one of the hardest sequences to look at in “From Where They Stood” (it’s also one of the hardest to look away from), we see four photographs taken inside the Buchenwald concentration camp ...
English: Photograph of Ravensbrück concentration camp prisoner Jadwiga Dzido (1918-1985) revealing the scars to her leg caused by Nazi medical experiments, entered as evidence at Doctors' Trial Date 1946 December 09 - 1947 August 20
After the war, the German Medical Association blamed Nazi atrocities on a small group of 350 criminal doctors. [1] [2] [3] During the Doctors' trial, the defense argued that there was no international law to distinguish between legal and illegal human experimentation, [4] which led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code (1947).
A historian in France has discovered the remains of dozens of Jewish Holocaust victims who were experimented on by Nazis. Raphael Toledano, a researcher from Strasbourg, has spent more than a ...
Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. [1]