Experiments and Torture
Experiments and Torture
EXPERIMENTATION
Some of the information is taken from Nazi Human
Experimentation
Human Experimentation
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Experiments on twins
Bone, muscle, limb and nerve transplant
Freezing experiments
Head injury
Malaria inoculation
Sulphonamide experiments
Sterilization
Air pressure experiments
Experimentation Classification
• Axis survival methods
• Developing and testing pharmaceuticals
• Advance racial and ideological views
Freezing
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Victims were placed in cold water/air
Experiments to try to treat hypothermia
Assessed methods of re-warming victims
100 reported deaths from freezing alone
Mengele was the main conductor of these trials
Predominately at Auschwitz and Dachau
Results published in 1942
Sea Water
• 90 Gypsies were included in the experiment
• One group fed sea water
• Second group fed an altered flavour of sea
water
• Became extremely dehydrated
• Seen licking the floor
Sterilization
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March 19th 1941- January 1945
Conducted mainly at Auschwitz, and Ravensbruck
Try to develop a quick and easy Sterilization method
X-ray, Surgery, and Various drugs
400,000 victims were sterilized
Some Experiments were successful
Radiation treatment was favoured
High-Altitude Experiments
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Tried to resuscitate pilots after abandonment
Simulated high altitudes
Live vivisections of subjects
45 percent died in the experiments
Predominately at Dachau concentration camp
Malaria Inoculation
• Investigate an immunization
• Inmates were intentionally
infected
• Subjects treated with various
drugs
• 1100 subjects in the experiment
• Majority of the subjects died
Mustard Gas
• Conducted at Sachsenhausen and
other camps
• Deliberately exposed to gas
• Acquired severe burns
• Wounds were tested to find
treatment
Mengele's Children
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Iris changing
Shots and Diseases
Surgeries
Amputation
Conjoined Twins
Experiments and Torture
TORTURE
Nazi Torture
• Pealed skin off like a glove
• Thumb Screws
• Penetrated hands with hot
poker
• Hangings
• Gash open feet
• Shocking
• Pulling off ears
• Rape
• Ilse Koch
• Irma Grese
• Juana Bormann
• Ewa Paradies
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675036168_Munsterconcentration-camp_Nazi-methods-of-torture_wounds-onsurvivor_women-prisoner
Strappado Hanging
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Also known as Palestinian Hanging or Reverse Hanging
Wrists are bound behind the back
Weight added to intensify pain
Slowly lowered to add pain
Very common means of torture
Used for infringement of camp rules
Would be public to scare other camp prisoners
Night Sticks were rammed in person’s anal and vaginal cavities
Torture Misconception
• Complex torture devices were not used
• Nazi’s did not keep prisoners around long
enough
• Various tortures were done as punishment
• Their goal was to get rid of the Jews, not
torture them
Ilse Koch
• Famously known as the bitch of Buchenwald
• Known as the infamous Jewish inmate tattoo
collector
• Forced inmates to rape other inmates
• Found interesting tattoos and would skin them to
make lampshades and handbags
• Had pleasure in showing off the handbags to inmates
Irma Grese
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Known as Beautiful Beast
Released starved dogs upon prisoner
Would beat and whip prisoners to death
Selected prisoners to be sent to gas chambers
Youngest Nazi to get executed
Juana Bormann
Ewa Paradies
• Known as the Wiesel
• Would unleash wolfhounds
on prisons
• Beat sick inmates
• Beat workers with wooden
and rubber sticks
• Committed depraved acts
• Stripped women in winter
and poured cold water on
them
• Would beat any women
who moved during her
tortures
