Nazi Medical Experimentation
Nazi human experimentation was a series of human experimentation, medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners, including children, by Nazi Germany in its Nazi concentration camps, concentration camps in the early to mid 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust. Chief target populations included Romani people, Romani, Sinti, Poles, ethnic Poles, German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war, Soviet POWs, disabled Germans, and Jews from across Europe. List of Nazi doctors, Nazi physicians and their assistants forced prisoners into participating; they did not willingly volunteer and no consent was given for the procedures. Typically, the experiments were conducted without anesthesia and resulted in death, Trauma (medicine), trauma, disfigurement, or permanent disability, and as such are considered examples of medical torture. At Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz and other camps, under the direction of Eduard Wirths, selected inmates were subjected to various exp ...
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