• Children were experimented on in concentration camps during the Holocaust • The types of experiments conducted on children include freezing/hypothermia, genetic, high altitude, sterilisation, • Freezing/Hypothermia: This experiment was conducted on men to simulate the conditions in which the armies suffered on the Eastern Front. It was conducted by various doctors at Auschwitz for Himmler, the head of the SS. They were conducted in order to determine how long it took to lower the body temperature to death and to decide which way was the best to resuscitate a frozen victim. The two main methods that were used to freeze the subject were to put them naked outside in sub-zero temperatures or to place them in an icy vat of water. The vat of water was proven to be the fastest way in which to freeze the victim (this was tested by placing a thermometer inside the subject’s rectum. Most subjects lost consciousness and died after their body temperature dropped to 25 degrees Celsius. • …show more content…
The sun lamp, which was so hot they’d burn the subject’s skin, was placed on top of the frozen subject. This method was capable of resuscitating frozen subjects. Internal irrigation involved water heated up to extremely high temperatures being pumped through the frozen subject’s stomach, bladder and intestines. This method did not appear to work. Subjects were also sometimes successfully resuscitated through the method of warming by body heat, which required women to have sexual relations with the frozen men. The next resuscitation attempt was to put the subject in a warm bath, whose temperature would gradually increase so as not to make the subject die from shock. The warm bath method was proven the
In one series of tests, victims were put in large tubs of ice to lower their temperatures. Some victims were clothed, others not, some soaked for a long time, others a short time. Another series of tests put subjects naked in the outdoors. During both series, many subjects developed extreme rigor. The doctors measured changes in the victim's’ heart rate, body temperature, muscle reflexes, and other factors. If body temperature fell below 79.7 degrees Fahrenheit, doctors would begin to rewarm the body. Body rewarming techniques included using blankets, heat lamps, andin some cases, bodies of women who were forced to copulate with the
For more than a decade, Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) has been the recommended treatment modality in adult comatose patients following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)[1] in order to improve survival and neurological outcome by minimizing brain injuries due to anoxia and reperfusion injury.
The freezing and hypothermia experiments were tested upon males to test the conditions of the warriors suffered out in the fields. Tons of German soldiers died of freezing temperatures or were paralyzed by cold injuries. They only used healthy men in these experiments, though, because the week men would not be equal to the soldiers.
Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to educate and inform my audience of the risks inherent from unintended hypothermia. I’m eager to alert perioperative staff of the potential dangers as well as the preventative measures that can be taken in order to avoid complications associated with unintended hypothermia. My central idea is hypothermia management saves lives.
During World War II, there were many acts of cruelty done towards people seen as unsuitable or worthless to the Nazis. These people included Jew, homosexuals, gypsies, and the handicapped. In this paper, I'm going to describe the medical experiments that were performed on inmates by Nazi doctors during the Holocaust. These experiments include: the twin experiments, the freezing experiments, the seawater experiments, and the bone grafting and nerve experiments.
There was a multifarious amount of disgusting and repulsive experiments that killed many innocent victims who were subjected to these experiments as lab rats. At the camps, there was a multifarious amount of awful experiments that took place. In the hot bath experiments, the patient was put into warmer water and their body temperature slowly inclined, which caused many deaths of victims due to shock (Nazi Medical Experiments: Background, 2008). After being forced to take part in the hypothermia experiments, patients were placed under powerful sun lamps that could easily burn the skin (Nazi Medical Experiments: Background, 2008). One homosexual prisoner was subjected to this many times after being frozen over and over again, and then he died (Nazi Medical Experiments: Background, 2008).
The freezing experiments were organized into two main parts (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine). The first part was to determine the amount of time it took the prisoner’s body temperature to reach twenty five degrees Celsius, which would cause the victim to become unconscious and die (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine). The second part was to figure out how to then bring back the patient to a strong, healthy state, which most of the time was unable to achieve (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine). The doctors had two ways to freeze the victim; to either submerge the victim into a tub of icy water, or to place the victim outside, undressed, in the sub-zero winter temperatures (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine). Healthy Jews and Russians were often chosen for this type of experiment (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi
During the holocaust prisoners of concentration camps were faced with evil, torture and death every day. Some of the prisoners in these camps were selected for Nazi medical experiments. Nazi doctors performed several different human experiments on prisoners throughout the Holocaust. A specifically horrific experiment was the twin experiments. This experiment was performed by Dr. Joseph Mengele and several of his assistants in Auschwitz. He is known for performing some of the most inhumane experiments during the holocaust.
Hitler conducted brutal experiments on Jewish. Jewish prisoners were put through a variety of gruesome experiments. One experiment was to freeze jews in vats of icy water to see what would happen to pilot that has fallen in water. The infamous Dr. Josef Megele proposed many experiments on 1,000 twins roughly 200 lives(history.com). One more experiment known as the salt water
The Nazis also tested different methods of warming survivors up. Some victims were thrown into boiling water for rewarming. These experiments were conducted for the Nazi Air Forces to find ways to treat Nazi troops who would endure the conditions on the Eastern
Following the death of the pair, all organs were extracted and sent to other research facilities to undergo further testing and comparison. These facilities played a large role in the progression of the Nazi medical operations. Many organs and other samples would be sent to these facilities, such as the one in Breslau, including many sexual organs from women and castrated men. A number of other experiments were also performed to alter physical features, and perhaps to even see if Aryan traits could be induced in non-Aryan people. As such, there were many cruel procedures such as injecting dyes into the irides of the prisoners in order to create artificially blue eyes.
Hypothermia/freezing experiments were done for the Nazi high command to help them to better understand the cold temperatures of the eastern front that killed thousands of German soldiers. The freezing experiments where oversaw by a Dr. Sigmund Rascher. Dr. Rascher reported directly to Hitler himself. In 1942 Dr. Rascher reported his findings in a journal titled "Medical Problems Arising from Sea and Winter". The freezing experiments had two sub goals or purposes which was to find out how long it would take someone to die in freezing water and the second was to examine the remains after the person died to gather information on how freezing temperatures affected the body. The main method used to do the experiments was an ice vating this was proved to be the most proficient way to conduct the experiment. Before subjects were submerged in the ice vat they were stripped naked and a thermometer was inserted into the rectom. From these experiments, it was learned that most men lost consciousness at 77 degrees Fahrenheit. “[For one experiment] Two Russian men were seen by a prisoner doctor in the cold vat. They were very strong men and had made a comment to the SS doctor performing the experiment. The prisoner doctor was shocked at how long the Russian men could take the cold without losing consciousness” (Remember). This could have been due to the fact that they were used to being exposed to cold temperatures because of the climate in
Some of the experiments involved changing eye color, changing sexuality with chemicals, etc. Two of the main targets for experimentation were kids and twins. “Kids over 12 were used for chemical experiments, those children were killed during reprisal operations or so-called anti-partisan operations” (Google.com/Holocaust facts.) Experiments helped some people, surprisingly. “LSD cured a Holocaust survivor of Aushwitz’s PTSD and allowed him to sleep for the first time in 30 years without nightmares” (Pinterest.com/wtffunfacts.) Some of the experiments were ominous and bizarre. The Nazis developed an experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles without resting”
One of the ideas talked about in this book that I found most fascinating was the section named “A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Temperature Go Down.” The idea of cryonics has always intrigued me, ever since I saw it in the Austin Powers movie series. When reading about baseball legend Ted Williams and the process he went through to become physically frozen, my hopes were high that maybe, just maybe, one day that this idea would become a reality. However, the book immediately shuts down all hopes, proving that this science will never be possible. Human bodies will never be able to be reanimated from a “true deep freeze” stage. When human bodies are frozen, our capillaries in a way similar “to the way a pipe bursts when the water’s left on in an unheated house” (Moalem 35). However, human bodies can still endure some cold. There are various natural defense systems that protect us from completely freezing. The first defense system is one that
Basically, the treatment of therapeutic hypothermia can be separated into three parts: induction, maintenance and rewarming (Walters et al., 2011). The process of hypothermia induction if often questioned. Is there an optimal time to begin mild therapeutic hypothermia that brings the most benefit? The data from the past experiments suggest that mild therapeutic hypothermia should be commenced within a short time from clinical comprehensive evaluation that suggests patient’s eligibility for this type of a treatment. Various animal studies suggest that early cooling becomes superior to delayed cooling because of its benefits on general outcome after suffering cardiac arrest (Janata & Holzer, 2009). According to Wolff et al. (2009), successful and early achievement of mild therapeutic hypothermia is one of the main elements contributing to the final neurological outcome. Therefore, the need for implementing new measures appears to be more than natural. In this experiment, there were forty-nine consecutive patients that were treated with mild hypothermia after suffering cardiac arrest. A closed-loop endovascular system proved to be the most suitable choice for achievement of rapid body cooling while allowing more precise control of mild therapeutic hypothermia. While the researcher team examined the correlation between the different time intervals of hypothermia achievement, it also closely monitored levels of neurone specific enolase,