Experiments
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Sometimes people are evil because they are ignorant. Other times people are evil because they can be, and the regime they follow has given them a carte blanche to do whatever they want. Dr Clauberg probably qualifies for both groups. Dr Clauberg was a German gynaecologist who conducted medical experiments on human subjects (mainly Jewish)…
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Pervitin:Before the D-1X experiment Before the D-1X experiment, a young soldier stationed in occupied Poland wrote a letter to his “dear parents and siblings” back home in Cologne, dated November 9, 1939. He shared the hardships of his situation: “It’s tough out here, and I hope you’ll understand if I’m only able to write once…
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Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase meaning “first, do no harm.” The concept of non-maleficence, derived from this maxim, is one of the core principles of bioethics taught to all healthcare students and embraced as a fundamental ethical standard worldwide. However, many Nazi physicians egregiously violated this principle, with Karl Brandt standing out as…
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Even after death, the Nazi victims were still subjected to evil science. Hermann Stieve and His Connection to Liane Berkowitz and Mildred Harnack: An Intersection of Science and Ethical Transgression Hermann Stieve, a German anatomist who held a prominent position at what is now Humboldt University of Berlin, is remembered not only for his contributions…
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I had planned to write a blog on Menegele’s experiments on children, especially on twins, but as before, I couldn’t. I had to stop; the children’s eyes haunted me. Joseph Mengele, often referred to as the “Angel of Death,” is one of the most infamous figures associated with the Holocaust due to his brutal medical…
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The photograph above is a collage of the faces of the female SS guards in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Like their male counterparts, they were also agents of evil. They had subscribed to the Nazi ideology. Ravensbrück was a purpose-built concentration camp to imprison predominantly women. It housed around 120,000 women and children, 20,000 men, and…
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Somebody once told me, “Evil acts can only be committed by men.” I disputed that notion. History has many examples of women who are just as evil—if not even more evil than men. Anyone who knows me knows how important eye health is to me. In 2011, I lost my right eye, and in 2015,…
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On 7 July 1942, Heinrich Himmler, in cooperation with three others, including a physician, inaugurated experimenting on women in Auschwitz and investigated extending this experimentation on men. Himmler convened a conference in Berlin to discuss the prospects for using concentration camp prisoners as objects of medical experiments. The other attendees were the head of the…
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There are millions of Holocaust stories I could write, but none will be as powerful as the testimonies of those who survived the darkest era. Following are some of those testimonies. Written by Zdeněk and Jiří Steiner, born 20. 5. 1929 in Prague, residents of Prague, former prisoners in the concentration camps of Theresienstadt and…
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I could fill this blog with pictures of the experiments Joseph Mengele conducted in Auschwitz, but I think most of the readers would not be able to stomach the images. I know I can’t ,therefore I am just going to quote some eye witness reports to illustrate how truly evil this man was. He had…
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