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The experiments were conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sigmund Rascher at Birkenau, Dachau and Auschwitz . Dr. Rascher reported directly to Himmler. Dr. Rascher publicized the results of his freezing experiments at the 1942 medical conference entitled "Medical Problems Arising from Sea and Winter".
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www.remember.org/educate/medexp.html
www.remember.org/educate/medexp.html
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The Nazi doctors, medical experiments and Auschwitz ... Mengele did a number of medical experiments of unspeakable horror at Auschwitz, using twins. These twins as young as five years of age were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected.
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www.auschwitz.dk/doctors.htm
www.auschwitz.dk/doctors.htm
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Josef Mengele became the surviving symbol of the Holocaust ... Mengele did a number of medical experiments of unspeakable horror at Auschwitz, using twins. These twins as young as five and six years of age were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected.
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www.auschwitz.dk/Mengele/
www.auschwitz.dk/Mengele/
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The third category of medical experimentation sought to advance the racial and ideological tenets of the Nazi worldview. The most infamous were the experiments of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Mengele conducted medical experiments on twins.
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Decades later, Irene and Rene learned that he was killed at the Auschwitz camp in December 1941. Irene, Rene, and their mother were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, and later to the Auschwitz camp. ... ; Describes medical experiments at Auschwitz; ... Irene Hizme; Describes medical experiments at Auschwitz [1995 interview]
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But in May 1943, Mengele entered Auschwitz as an educated, experienced, medical researcher. With funding for his experiments, he worked alongside some of the top medical researchers of the time. Anxious to make a name for himself, Mengele searched for the secrets of heredity.
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history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/mengeletwins.htm
history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/mengeletwins.htm
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In order to understand how brutal and realistic the medical experiments in Auschwitz were, a modern student, Stephen M. Scott, is quoted as defining a doctor and noting how such a modern-day definition of a doctor differs from that of the Nazi doctors in the mid-twentieth century.
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cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/ib_holocaust2001/Final_Solution/sel...
cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/ib_holocaust2001/Final_Solution/selected_camps/auschwitz_medical_experiments.htm
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The Holocaust and the Nazi Medical Experiments ... The camp doctors tortured men, women and children and did medical experiments of unspeakable horror during the Holocaust. Victims were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death.
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www.deathcamps.info/Experiments/experiments.htm
www.deathcamps.info/Experiments/experiments.htm
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These experiments were broken down into three classes. The German Air force at Dachua conducted experiments dealing with survival and rescue, freezing and temperatures and the ingestion of sea water ("Auschwitz Medical Experimentation").
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remember.org/imagine/medical.html
remember.org/imagine/medical.html
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