Auschwitz: Sterilizations, Medical Trials, Women, SS Dr Clauberg; Twins, Nazi Human Experiments, Dr Mengele

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- DW documentary, German Public Broadcast, 2023.

- Carl Clauberg (28 Sept. 1898 – 9 Aug. 1957) was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on human subjects (mainly Jewish) at Auschwitz concentration camp. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1945, near the close of WWII, he was captured by the Red Army and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released in 1955 under a prisoner exchange agreement, and he returned to Germany and continued to practice medicine.

Due to public outcry from Holocaust survivors, Clauberg was arrested in 1955, but died before he could be tried.
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- Human Experiments at Auschwitz: In 1942 Clauberg approached Heinrich Himmler and asked him for an opportunity to perform mass sterilizations on women for his experiments. Himmler agreed, and in Dec. 1942 Clauberg moved to Auschwitz concentration camp. His laboratory was in a part of the Block 10 in the main camp. Clauberg's goal was to find an easy and cheap method to sterilize women. He injected caustic substances into their uteruses without anesthetics. His test subjects were Jewish and Romani women, who either directly died or suffered permanent injuries and infections. About 700 women were also successfully sterilized.

Himmler wanted to know how much time it would take to sterilize 1000 Jewish women in that way. Clauberg's answer was satisfactory: One doctor with 10 assistants should be able to conduct sterilization of a few hundred, or even a few thousand, Jews in one day...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Clauberg

https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/medical-experiments/carl-clauberg/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23393707/
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- Lesley Stahl, 1992. Nazi SS Dr. Josef Mengele.
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- NAZI HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION

Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There were 15,754 documented victims, of various nationalities and age groups, although the true number is believed to be more extensive. Many survived, with only a quarter of documented victims killed. Survivors generally experienced severe permanent injuries.

"A Jewish prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions simulating those found at 15,000 meters [49,000 ft] in altitude were created in an effort to determine if German pilots might survive at that height."

At Auschwitz and other camps, under the direction of Eduard Wirths, selected inmates were subjected to various experiments that were designed to help German military personnel in combat situations, develop new weapons, aid in the recovery of military personnel who had been injured, and to advance Nazi racial ideology and eugenics, including the twin experiments of Josef Mengele. Aribert Heim conducted similar medical experiments at Mauthausen.

After the war, these crimes were tried at what became known as the Doctors' Trial, and revulsion at the abuses perpetrated led to the development of the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics. The Nazi physicians in the Doctors' Trial argued that military necessity justified their experiments, and compared their victims to collateral damage from Allied bombings.

- Experiments: Blood coagulation; Bone, muscle and nerve transplantation; Twins; Freezing; High altitude; Sea water; Sterilization and fertility; Sulfonamide; Homosexuals; Other. - Aftermath...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation