Having lost numerous solders to the dreaded Russian winters, the High Nazi party commanded the study behind frostbite and hypothermia. In these, the experiments were designed to simulate the conditions to which the German soldiers had to face when fighting the Russian enemy at the eastern front.
The experiments were conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sigmund Rascher at Birkenau concentration camp, Dachau and Aushcwitz. Dr. Rascher reported their results directly to Himmler, Commander in Chief of the notorious SS. Dr. Rascher subsequently published the results of their experiments on freezing at a medical conference in 1942, entitled "Medical problems arising from sea and winter."
The experiments were divided freezing into two parts. First, …show more content…
At the end of this incomprehensible torture, the twins were sent to the autopsy room and were given a lethal injection. Their bodies were eventually sent to a research institute in Berlin. experiments with Sea water
A topic of interest for doctors of Adolf Hitler was the capacity to make potable water from the sea. Due to the fact that naval warfare often left many castaways isolated for long periods of time, be able to drink sea water would save many lives.
For the experiments of desalinization of seawater was used mainly to European gypsies, divided into four different experimental groups that could only drink a kind of water: one group would drink only seawater, another would only consume water processed with the "Berka" method, a third would drink unsalted unpurified water and while the last one recieved no water at all.
This horrible Nazi experiment became even more frightening because each victim he had a lumbar puncture or liver to obtain samples and also the victims were not allowed to eat anything for the duration of the experiments. Most forced to drink sea water victims died, before suffering terrible convulsions, endless diarrhea, hallucinations and episodes of
The experiments were conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sigmund Rascher at Birkenau concentration camp, Dachau and Aushcwitz. Dr. Rascher reported their results directly to Himmler, Commander in Chief of the notorious SS. Dr. Rascher subsequently published the results of their experiments on freezing at a medical conference in 1942, entitled "Medical problems arising from sea and winter."
The experiments were divided freezing into two parts. First, …show more content…
At the end of this incomprehensible torture, the twins were sent to the autopsy room and were given a lethal injection. Their bodies were eventually sent to a research institute in Berlin. experiments with Sea water
A topic of interest for doctors of Adolf Hitler was the capacity to make potable water from the sea. Due to the fact that naval warfare often left many castaways isolated for long periods of time, be able to drink sea water would save many lives.
For the experiments of desalinization of seawater was used mainly to European gypsies, divided into four different experimental groups that could only drink a kind of water: one group would drink only seawater, another would only consume water processed with the "Berka" method, a third would drink unsalted unpurified water and while the last one recieved no water at all.
This horrible Nazi experiment became even more frightening because each victim he had a lumbar puncture or liver to obtain samples and also the victims were not allowed to eat anything for the duration of the experiments. Most forced to drink sea water victims died, before suffering terrible convulsions, endless diarrhea, hallucinations and episodes of