Forgotten History- Dr. Carl Clauberg Experiments

The notorious Heinrich Himmler himself ordered a Nazi doctor to artificially inseminate concentration camp prisoners though various experimental methods. Dr. Carl Clauberg artificially inseminated about 300 women at Auschwitz, who were strapped down and taunted mercilessly. Clauberg told his victims that he had used animal sperm to create a monster inside of them.

Carl Clauberg (28 September 1898 – 9 August 1957) was a German medical doctor who conducted medical experiments on human subjects (mainly Jewish) in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp

In 1942 Viktor Brack — director of T4 murder operation — wrote a letter to Heinrich Himmler stating,

“I am of the opinion that out of approx. 10 million European Jews at least 2–3 million men and women will be fit for work and should be kept alive. . . Of course this can only be done if they are at the same time rendered incapable of reproduction . . . under my instruction experiments for this purpose have been complete. . . . the type of sterilization normally performed on persons with genetic diseases, is here out of the question, because it takes too long and is too expensive. Castration by X-ray however is not only relatively cheap, but can also be performed on many thousands in the shortest time.”

He indicated that using X-ray, 3,000–4,000 Jews could be castrated daily, and then put to work.

Between 1942–1945, Dr. Carl Clauberg was a highly esteemed gynecologist with expertise in female sexual hormones with an unassailable reputation within German medical society. At Auschwitz he was given Block 10 with its several hundred Jewish women for his medical experiments. He sought to develop a method capable of sterilizing millions of people with minimum time and effort.

He also developed a non-surgical method of sterilization by injecting a specially prepared caustic substance into the female reproductive organs producing severe inflammation and excruciating pain. The secret substance was developed by his assistant Dr. Johannes Goebel, chief chemist with Schering Pharmaceutical Co (Lifton, Nazi Doctors). The goal was to create adhesions in the fallopian tubes to obstruct them within six weeks. In his correspondence with Himmler, Clauberg refers to the women in his experiments as “the human material to be provided. . .”

Clauberg also conducted artificial insemination experiments on 300 women at Auschwitz. Adding to their physical abuse, he reportedly taunted the women by telling them that he inseminated them with animal sperm and that monsters were now growing in their wombs.

X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz were conducted on 420 (mostly) male Jewish victims. Of these 188 were castrated after being radiated (Weindling). Of the more than 1,000 prisoners subjected by Clauberg and Dr. Horst Schumann to X-Ray sterilization experiments — some of the victims as young as 14 years old — only 100 survived (Susan Benedict 2014). Clauberg enthusiastically informed Himmler of the promising potential of his sterilization method: “I shall be able to report in the foreseeable future that one experienced physician, with an appropriately equipped office and the aid of ten auxiliary personnel, will be able to carry out in the course of a single day the sterilization of hundreds, or even 1,000 women.”

When the Red Army approached Auschwitz, Clauberg moved to Ravensbrück concentration camp to continue his experiments on Romani women. Soviet troops captured him there in 1945.

After the war in 1948 Clauberg was put on trial in the Soviet Union and received 25 years in prison. In 1955, he was released (but not pardoned) by the Soviet Union, with the final group of about 10,000 POWs and civilian internees. He returned to West Germany, where he was reinstated at his former clinic based on his prewar scientific output. Bizarre behavior, including openly boasting of his “achievements” in “developing a new sterilization technique at the Auschwitz concentration camp”, destroyed any chance he might have had of staying unnoticed. After public outcry from groups of survivors, Clauberg was arrested in 1955 and was put on trial. He died of a heart attack before the trial could start.