There were over six million Jews that were murdered during the Holocaust. Toward the end of the war prisoners that were in the concentration camps were liberated, this attempt to free the prisoners continued until May 7, 1945 which was the day the Germans surrendered without a fight. The crimes that were committed during the Holocaust had a permanent effect on the Jewish population, even till today. The Holocaust was caused by Hitler Germany needed an enemy that could be blamed for everything bad that had happened to it after WW1 and the Jews were a perfect target.. The Holocaust happened because Hitler wanted to get rid of the Jewish race.
Many of the experiments that the Nazis preformed fell into three categories; experiments aimed at facilitating the survival of Axis military personnel, experiments aimed at developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses which German military and occupation personnel encountered in the field, and experimentation sought to advance the racial and ideological tenets of the Nazi worldview. Whatever experiments didn’t fall into those categories were usually experiments used to find an efficient and cheap way of exterminating groups that Nazis believed to be racially or genetically undesirable. {draw:frame} Although the Experiments were harsh and inhumane, there were a few survivors. Many of the experiments were unbelievable, and not in a good way. They ranged from the experimentation of mass killings to sewing two people together to create unnatural Siamese twins.
The people were sent from a forced labor camp to a death camp when they became old or when they were weak to be killed. Some were also tested for experiments that tested medical things, such as diseases and cures. About 1 million people were killed at Auschwitz during World War II. There were total of 20,000 concentration camps were they had only one goal and that was to kill Jews and any other race they didn’t like. Nazis killed total of eleven million people and six million were Jews.
Nazi Genocide I chose to research and write about the Nazi Genocide. I have a lot of German in my background so I thought it would be interesting to learn a little about the history of some of my ancestors. I found out a lot of information, including that of World War II and the allies of Germany and the allies of the United States. World War II began on September 1, 1939, but the genocide actually began on April 12, 1939 when Adolf Hitler told the Czech foreign minister Chvalkovsky that they were going to destroy the Jews. Hitler avoided giving any clear written data when it came to his order the extermination of the Jews as well as the Jewish civilians.
Eugenics The idea of eugenics is clearly an old world set of ideals that in hindsight are both absurd and naïve. What today we might consider a problem in society based on lack of opportunity, eugenicists would view as a continuance of bad genes being passed from generation to generation. According to these old world ideals factors such as race or race mixing contribute to these social blemishes. Early eugenicists sometimes defined race by physical appearance, language, or region of origin. In addition to physical or regional attributes, eugenicists would accompany their definitions of race through anthropometry, which is the measurement of body parts.
Dr. Nyiszli wanted to make it clear that the Nazis were willing to kill men, women, and children not only because there intense hatred for Jews but also for research that was conducted through dissecting the human corpses. Children were killed just for pure research. The main causes of death at Auschwitz were either the gas chambers, a lethal injection of chloroform, or a bullet to the back of the head. The unlucky ones were the ones that were not killed right away because they either died from starvation or fatigue. “Don’t save him, you’ll only be prolonging agony” (108).
Kyle Haney HIST 200E 5/4/2012 The Contamination of Modern Research Introduction Human experimentation during the Holocaust stands among the most abhorrent violations against human rights. It has severed the integrity of the scientific community and has remained a scar in its history. From the remains of this scar developed the practice of modern medical ethics, specifically the Nuremberg Code. The International Military Tribunal, the court responsible in trying the Nazi Physicians that performed these “experiments”, developed this document to recognize the issue of informed consent and experimentation on human subjects., Though the experiments themselves have been condemned in a historical context, there has been great debate over the
Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews? Most history students know that over six million Jews were slaughtered during World War II. However, there are actually several theories as to why Hitler hated the Jews. What was the cause that instigated one man to try and wipe out an entire race of people? Let us try and look at some of the possible causes or factors that lead to this cold-blooded massacre.
Nazis: Torturers or Victims? "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them," quoted Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "but the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being … it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren’t." The experiments on obedience to authority conducted by Yale university psychologist Stanley Milgram confirmed the thoughts of Solzhenitsyn by proving, sadly, that at least 65% of everyday human beings could be initiated into behaving in ways that might lead to killing innocent victims. In fact, we all feel contempt before acts of inhumanity like the Holocaust, and it is convenient to attribute horrors
A well-known chapter in the history of research with human subjects opened on December 9, 1946, when an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. Among the charges were that German physicians conducted medical experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent. Most of the subjects of these experiments died or were permanently crippled as a result. As a direct result of the trial, the Nuremberg Code was established in 1948, stating that "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential," making it clear that subjects should give consent and that the benefits of research must outweigh the risks. Although it did not carry the force of law, the Nuremberg Code was the first international document which advocated voluntary participation and informed consent.