Emily Sullivan's List: Nazi Experiments

• During World War II, a number of  German physicians conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of  concentration camp prisoners without  their consent
• . The first category consists of experiments aimed at facilitating the survival  of Axis military personnel.
• conducted high-altitude experiments, using a low-pressure chamber, to determine  the maximum altitude from which crews of damaged aircraft could parachute to  safety
• freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for  hypothermia
• making seawater potable
• developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and  illnesses which German military and occupation personnel encountered in the  field
• scientists tested immunization compounds and sera for the prevention and  treatment of contagious diseases, including malaria, typhus, tuberculosis,  typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis
• bone-grafting experiments
• , prisoners were subjected to phosgene and mustard gas in order to test possible  antidotes
• Mengele conducted medical experiments on twins.
• determine how different "races" withstood various contagious diseases. The  research of August Hirt at Strasbourg University also intended to establish  "Jewish racial inferiority
• sterilization experiments, undertaken primarily at Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck

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• incisions made by medical personnel that were purposely infected with bacteria,  dirt, and slivers of glass

• The solubility of the drug is very low and sometimes can crystallize in the  kidneys, due to its first pK_a of around 10. This is a very painful  experience so patients are told to take the medication with copious amounts of  water

• Mengele sent blood samples from some 200 patients of various race to his partner  at the Berlin institute, while Karin Magnussen received human parts from the  notorious concentration camp, such as eyes taken from a dead Sinti family
• Perhaps Mengele was just the middle man, but he was able to carry out his work  thanks to the academic infra-structure of Nazi Germany, kept well-oiled by  fervent believers in the master-race