The+Nazi+Medical+Experiments

Medical experiments were a part of most concentration camps. The prisoners that were selected were usually healthy adolescences between the ages of thirteen and eighteen years of age. The most common experiments done were altitude test where they used a low-compression chamber to devise safe parachuting zones for pilots. Sterilization where they used young Jewish and Gypsy kids and tried to prevent them from being able to reproduce. Illnesses such as typhus were injected into the Jewish and Gypsy children’s arms and the doctors tried to find a cure. People did not often survive these experiments because they were deadly. Although some people did because the doctors often left before the allied powers liberated the camps. The very core of this medical atrocity was doctor Josef Mengel. He thought that because they were putting the Jewish and Gypsy’s into camps. He thought he might be able to separate the races.
 * The Nazi Medical Experiments **
 * Did medical experiments occur at camps? **
 * What type of prisoners was selected for them? **
 * What types of medical experiments were performed? **
 * Did any people survive them? **
 * Who were the main doctors to perform them? **

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