Nazi "doctors" conducted horrible experiments on the Jews in their power.

by Rabbi Eliyahu Ellis and Rabbi Shmuel Silinsky

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Medical Experiments

Medical Experiments On Children
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

God forbid, if someone ever became sick, he would end up in the "hospital" – and be subjected to the famous "experiments."

Those same 123 monsters who supervised the selection on the platforms, who had sworn to "help humanity," were conducting "medical research."

They would do things such as placing Jews in ice baths and monitor them continually until they died.

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Nazi Doctors

Nazi Doctors Submerging A Subject In Ice Water
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Why? Because some German flyers might end up in the water when fighting the Allies, and they were trying to figure out how to fight hypothermia, to better help the war effort.

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Experiments

Experiment Victims
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Sometimes the "research" had no relevance at all to the war. Mengele, known as the Angel of Death, "specialized" in bizarre experimentation on twins and dwarfs, ostensibly to better direct Aryan genetics. Victims were injected with diseases, then killed with a chloroform injection to the heart, dissected and compared. Some had chemicals dripped into their eyes to change eye color. Children were surgically sewn together to create Siamese twins.

Published: Wednesday, December 31, 1969
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Visitor Comments: 28

(28) Anonymous, November 9, 2011 5:19 PM

Really

What they did to the Jews was inmoral and should never have happened. They did npot do "research" they tourchered these innocent people.

(27) Anonymous, May 19, 2011 1:07 PM

innocent eyes

it really saddened me to see what these children had to endure.....when they did not even live their lives........may they play away in heaven and play every child's game there. REST IN PEACE

(26) Native Princess, April 11, 2011 4:26 PM

This is wrong!

I have to do this for a school project. I started crying seeing that a human being can see another human being suffer like this! Its sad and wrong!

(25) Sierrra, March 23, 2011 2:19 PM

Ridiculous

This is so wrong, I have to do a research project on this for school and I start to tear up knowing that there were, and still are, people in the world who don't have any conscious and would do these things to other innocent human beings. It's so wrong...

(24) Anonymous, October 13, 2010 8:16 PM

i think that there was no point in these Idiotic moves that Hitler called research, these poor Jewish people, they are just like everyone else and did not deserve what was given to them! i have to study this subject in English Class, and it makes me want to cry to see what the Holocaust had done to so many different kind of people, i wish us Americans could have stopped this sooner, then having it last as long as it did. What a shame.

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About the Author

Rabbi Eliyahu Ellis

Rabbi Eliyahu Ellis studied biology and geology at Northern Illinois University. In addition, he spent time as a deep-sea diver in the oil fields in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway and has circumnavigated the seas of the world in a sailboat. Rabbi Ellis received rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah where he is a senior lecturer at the Discovery and Essentials programs.

Rabbi Shmuel Silinsky

Rabbi Shmuel Silinsky received his BS from Cornell with a major in Communication Arts and a minor in Archeology, and did post-graduate work at UCLA in the field of Desert Plants and Natural History. Prior to moving to Israel, he worked in the field of Urban Ecology including several years as a landscape designer in Beverly Hills. Rabbi Silinsky received rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He currently teaches at the Yeshivat Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem.

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