Ahnenerbe is a secret institute of occult sciences that united many scientists of Nazi Germany, who, along with the ruling elite of the country, were remembered in history as great villains.
The blood-twisted philosophy of the Second World War, the ruthlessness, and numerous secret projects of an organization with an ominous appearance at the same time bear the stamp of incomprehensible mystery and inexhaustible mystery.
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There may be more rumors than truth in this matter, but the Nazi ideas that matured in the Ahnenerbe laboratories covered a wide range of activities from the material to the mystical and otherworldly. The Nazis really advanced deeply in scientific research expeditions and collected a huge number of ancient relics.
Fantastic and often completely absurd experiments were rooted so deeply in the dark world of mysticism and occultism that many of them did not become widely known as too ridiculous and incredible.
Hitler, Ahnenerbe, the legacy of our ancestors.
Hitler, and many of the Nazi leaders, had a huge interest in the field of the occult, which is quite well documented. In fact, the Nazi Party was originally organized as a cabinet of occult brethren, until their rise to a destructive political force.
An extremely increased interest in the occult caused the formation of a secret intrigue - the Ahnenerbe Institute. A very real and complete clan of mystics, originally founded on July 1, 1935 by Heinrich Himmler (the notorious SS leader), Hermann Wirth and Darre.
Literally meaning "inherited/heritage from ancestors", the Ahnenerbe began as an institute dedicated to the study of archaeology, anthropology, and the cultural history of Germanic heritage. In reality, it was much more - a search for evidence of the Nazi theory, according to which the Aryan race is the best creation of God, and is destined to rule the life of the planet!
It was imperative for the Nazi High League to find fundamental evidence to support their twisted ideology. To this end, this shadowy organization finances numerous expeditions and archaeological excavations around the world: Germany, Greece, Poland, Iceland, Romania, Croatia, Africa, Russia, Tibet and many other places in search of the lost secret runes of antiquity.
Artifacts and relics were searched, the ruins of crypts were searched, everything was done in search of ancient scrolls - evidence that could strengthen the claim that the Aryans were the dominant race over all.Tibet carried special significance for Ahnenerbe scientists, because it was believed that it was here that the great civilization of antiquity lived. It is in these places that the pure, ideally built Aryan race originates. They became convinced of the idea that their greatest ancestors still lived in these places, hiding in huge underground cities.
The Ahnenerbe is an organization branched from science to the occult, which, given the pedigree of its organizing fathers, is not surprising. Hermann Wirth was a Dutch historian obsessed with the idea. Future SS leader Himmler is well known for his ardent fascination with all things occult to a manically disturbing degree.
In fact, Himmler was something of a madman, caught up in a grandiose desire to one day replace the Christian religion with one of his own decisions. He was one of the driving forces behind the steady divergence in the Ahnenerbe from its original purpose and increasing role towards the occult. In such a pulsed mode, this sinister organization lived and grew, spreading throughout the world with the tasks of fantastic quests.
Agents of the Ahnenerbe, in search of lost lands and ancient relics, visited remote areas of the world, climbed all the crypts available to them; they were not afraid to disturb the bones of the dead; they searched for mystical texts, magical objects, ancient curiosities, and bizarre paranormal sites, collecting supernatural artifacts of all kinds.
With official Nazi approval, the Ahnenerbe Institute expands to 50 branches, covering everything from long-range weather forecasting, archeology and spaceflight to supernatural research. Significantly, the Nazis intensified their operations in search of such legendary miracles as the Holy Grail, the location of Atlantis, the spear of Destiny, with which the Roman warrior Longinus ended the suffering of Christ on the cross.
Groups also searched for various portals to ancient lost lands, including Atlantis, conducting expeditions under the influence of an equally secret organization known as the Thule Society. The mysterious land called "Thule" was also considered the true birthplace of the Aryan race. The discovery of a fantasy land as desired by the Nazis would grant them vast superhuman powers: telekinesis, telepathy and levitation, abilities they had lost through centuries of interbreeding with “inferior races.”
The Nazis' manic desire was to create powerful weapons based on the technologies of their ancestors. The idea spread boldly throughout the organization's "scientific" divisions, which actively sought to develop new technologies based on ancient lost or forbidden knowledge, mystical texts, alien technologies, as well as their own secret research.Members of the Ahnenerbe were deeply interested in the possibilities of the occult, magic and psychic powers to use as weapons against their enemies. To this end, various projects dedicated to research in this area have been opened. They even tried to create assassins who could kill using astral projection.
Among many other strange projects, they wanted to develop the use of magic spells as weapons, and even penetrate through the astral plane into the future - and this was not considered something impossible and prohibitive.
There is a lot of speculation that the organization was very interested in finding and using alien technology to create weapons, allegedly in one of the searches they managed to find a crashed ancient UFO! All this may seem absurd, but in the case of the Nazis this is no joke, some of their projects were too revolutionary. Many Nazi figures in power believed fervently in these many programs and projects, investing a lot of money and manpower.
In the case of the Ahnenerbe and the Nazis in science, we see malicious and sinister human experiments carried out in secret lairs and secret laboratories. This is especially noticeable with the inclusion of the Ahnenerbe as part of the Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung (Institute for Military Scientific Research) during World War II, where all the incredible research and development was discovered that began the dark era of terrible experiments on concentration camp prisoners.
Most of these projects had dubious goals and results, but all of them were extremely ruthless in content, demonstrating a lack of respect for human life "non-Aryan". In fact, the Nazis did not perceive the prisoners as human beings at all.
Reality Ahnenerbe, Dr. Rascher and his experiments.
One of the most famous examples of the use of the Ahnenerbe is a project to determine the physical limits of pilots who fly increasingly modern Luftwaffe aircraft. A series of experiments was supervised by Ahnenerbe director Wolfram Sievers and the notorious SS doctor Rascher. Concentration camp prisoners, requested for this purpose from Himmler himself, were used in the experiment - since none of the "true Aryans" were crazy enough to be willing to voluntarily participate in such a dangerous experiment.
Rusher had unlimited access to helpless people to use in his crazy experiments. He placed prisoners in portable vacuum chambers reminiscent of medieval torture devices to simulate different altitudes in flight. The capsules simulated pressure at various altitudes during rapid ascents of the aircraft, as well as the state of free fall without oxygen in order to analyze the consequences and impact of such situations on the human body.
Most subjects could not withstand inhuman experiments that push people far beyond the physiological limits of the body. I note that Rasher was surprisingly cruel even to those who survived the experiments. When Himmler offered to mitigate the fate of the survivors as payment for their “services,” Rascher refused, saying that all the prisoners were Poles and Russians and therefore did not deserve amnesty or pardon.
Rusher's thirst for human suffering is insatiable, and disgusting experiments come one after another. In one such experiment, more than 300 prisoners were used as test material to find out how long German pilots could survive if they were shot down over cold waters.
Subjects were subjected to freezing naked for 14 hours, or completely immersed in ice water for 3 hours. All this time their condition was carefully monitored. Numerous different methods followed to revive them: scalding hot water baths, or other unconventional methods - they were laid between naked women, who were also taken from concentration camps.
Another experiment was to test a substance called "Polygal" derived from beets and apple pectin. The drug, in capsule form, was expected to quickly stop bleeding, and Rascher saw it as a revolutionary solution for the treatment of gunshot wounds and for use in surgery.
In some cases, subjects had limbs amputated without anesthesia to test Polygal. Rascher was so confident that the drug was ready for production that he even created a company to produce it. Although Polygal never saw mass production, the capsule design led to the invention of the infamous cyanide capsule.
Multiple human experiments have explored possible treatments for deadly diseases caused by biological weapons. At the same time, they were searching for antidotes for a wide range of chemical weapons and poisons: injections were made of unwitting experimental subjects from concentration camps to various pathogens from poisons and deadly chemicals - this is how they looked for an antidote.
But even in death there was no peace for the exhausted martyrs. Many of the dead killed by these cruel experiments became part of a macabre collection of Jewish skeletons that were preserved for use in further research. The fascists from the organization “legacy of ancestors” did not give rest even to lifeless bodies.
Josef Mengele, a sadistic doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp, also considered the possibility of somehow manipulating the human body. Mengele was particularly interested in identical twins, experimenting on hundreds of pairs of young children.
Monstrous experiments on children pursued the following goals: to change eye color, to study the possibilities of a mental connection between twins, for example, one of the twins was deliberately inflicted with pain and suffering, while they coolly observed how the other child felt at that moment.
In laboratories filled with suffering and pain, they arranged to infect one twin with typhoid or malaria, and then performed a blood transfusion from the brother/sister, finding out whether she would treat the infected person.
Numerous experiments have been carried out with the transplantation of body parts from one twin to another, and even attempts have been made to surgically unite twins into Siamese twins.
The ultimate goal of the twin experiments was also a comparative analysis: when one of the twins eventually died, the other was killed by an injection of chloroform. Both bodies will then be dissected with laudatory German precision for careful comparative analysis.
Ahnenerbe: zombies and super-soldiers of Aryan blood.
The Ahnenerbe's use of human experimentation did not stop at finding human limits and limitations. Wandering among living and dead bodies, they searched for a mental connection between the twins, but the Nazis were also consumed by a great desire to improve the human form - to create super-soldiers of a great nation.
Among the methods of achieving the goal, the selective breeding process designed to produce people of “pure Aryan blood”, a project called “Lebensborn“, gained popularity. The project required ideal samples capable of having children without “impurities” in the race, which “contaminated” the human potential of the “superior race”.
The Ahnenerbe seriously believed that work in the field of genetics would help unlock the enormous potential of the mysterious psychic power, supposedly lost due to the "erosion" of their true heritage, which would then give them the opportunity to once again rule the world from the "lower races".
In many cases, those who were considered perfect specimens - according to Nazi criteria - blue eyes, blond hair and Scandinavian features, did not enter the program voluntarily. They were kidnapped or otherwise forced to participate in the project.
However, to achieve the required results, the ambitious project of high goals required many generations of careful selection, so the organization moved towards the goal by a shorter route.
The program, designed to create super-soldiers with enhanced physical capabilities for use on the battlefield without restrictions, included an experimental drug called "D-IX". A wild cocktail of cocaine and a strong stimulant (Pervitin) was mixed with the powerful painkiller eucodal.
The drug was first tested on prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and showed such encouraging results that the developers soon recruited participants from the military environment. Soldiers received the capsules and went on long hikes in harsh terrain in full gear.
And in fact, D-IX showed a dramatic increase in endurance and concentration in the subjects. Soldiers, having taken the drug, freely covered more than 100 km without stopping.
The truth is that the wrong side of the “power” capsule was that long-term use caused addiction to the drug. However, D-IX was a resounding success and was officially used in the field starting in March 1944, albeit in limited dosage.
Ahnenerbe: resurrect Hitler?
While D-IX, as well as its more advanced combat stimulants, do in fact exist, more mysterious things actually exist. Some conspiracy theories believe that the Nazis worked to bring the dead back to life using unknown means brought from Tibet and Africa.
An interesting incident related to this case was made in April 1945, when Allied forces captured the Bernterode military plant, located in the German region of Thuringia. When American intelligence officers investigated a tunnel inside the plant, they discovered suspicious brickwork disguised as part of natural rock.
The destruction of the masonry opened the entrance to an underground cave, which, as it turned out, contained huge deposits of stolen art and ancient relics. Many new Nazi uniforms were also kept here. But a more mysterious discovery awaited in the next chamber - four extremely large coffins were discovered here!
One of the coffins (real sarcophagi) contained the remains of the 17th century Prussian king, Frederick the Great, the other Field Marshal von Hindenburg and his wife. The fourth coffin did not have the owner's body, but had a plaque engraved with the name of Adolf Hitler.
Although the reasons why these remains were so carefully preserved are unknown, some have speculated that the Nazis had plans to resurrect or clone the deceased at a later time. - At this point, I don’t want to say that the Ahnenerbe literally expected to bring dead leaders back to life, but serious work was being done in the field of cryogenics, which was probably what they planned to do with Hitler’s body.
Much closer to the truth is the persistent rumor among a number of fans of secrets and conspiracy theories that the Ahnenerbe was actively pursuing projects seeking to create mindless zombies in order to send hordes of troops unafraid of injury to the enemy. Moreover, these would not be zombies at all, whose bodies would be raised from the dead.
Everything is much simpler and at the same time more terrible - a special medical procedure designed to destroy the intellect and destroy everything human to the very foundation. This was the recipe for creating tireless super-soldiers in the Reich army.
Yes, Ahnenerbe really conducted many strange research directions, extremely important for the “dark” organization. Here, all employees were deeply involved in various projects, research, studies of the occult and the supernatural, medical experiments and the development of secret weapons from the great ancestors. And no one knows for sure what they managed to uncover from the ancient secrets and comprehend from the sphere of the astral world.
With the end of World War II, the mysterious Ahnenerbe “dissolved” and disappeared. It is believed that much of the data, documents, ancient texts and artifacts that the organization has collected over the years have been destroyed or stolen by intelligence agencies.
In the absence of real evidence, it is impossible to fully illuminate the extent of their success in obtaining ancient relics and artifacts, so we are left with a lot of speculation and rumors regarding the dark legend of the Ahnenerbe.
1. Homosexuality
Homosexuals have no place on the planet. At least that's what the Nazis thought. Therefore, they, led by Dr. Karl Wernet, in Buchenwald, from July 1944, sewed capsules with “male hormone” into the groins of gay prisoners. Then the healed were sent to concentration camps to live with women, ordering the latter to provoke newcomers into sex. History is silent about the results of such experiments.
2. Pressure
German physician Sigmund Rascher was too concerned about the problems that Third Reich pilots could have at an altitude of 20 kilometers. Therefore, as the chief physician at the Dachau concentration camp, he created special pressure chambers in which he placed prisoners and experimented with pressure. After this, the scientist opened the skulls of the victims and examined their brains. 200 people took part in this experiment. 80 died on the surgical table, the rest were shot.
3. White phosphorus
From November 1941 to January 1944, drugs that could treat white phosphorus burns were tested on the human body in Buchenwald. It is not known whether the Nazis managed to invent a panacea. But, believe me, these experiments took away plenty of prisoners’ lives.
4. Poisons
The food in Buchenwald was not the best. This was especially felt from December 1943 to October 1944. The Nazis mixed various poisons into prisoners' food and then studied their effects on the human body. Often such experiments ended with the immediate dissection of the victim after eating. And in September 1944, the Germans got tired of messing around with experimental subjects. Therefore, all participants in the experiment were shot.
5. Sterilization
Carl Clauberg was a German doctor who became famous for sterilization during World War II. From March 1941 to January 1945, the scientist tried to find a way to make millions of people infertile in the shortest possible time. Clauberg succeeded: the doctor injected prisoners of Auschwitz, Revensbrück and other concentration camps with iodine and silver nitrate. Although such injections had a lot of side effects (bleeding, pain and cancer), they successfully sterilized the person. But Clauberg’s favorite was radiation exposure: the person was invited to a special chamber with a chair, sitting on which he filled out questionnaires. And then the victim simply left, not suspecting that she would never be able to have children again. Often such exposures resulted in serious radiation burns.
6. Sea water
During World War II, the Nazis once again confirmed that sea water is undrinkable. On the territory of the Dachau concentration camp (Germany), the Austrian doctor Hans Eppinger and professor Wilhelm Beiglbeck in July 1944 decided to check how long 90 gypsies could live without water. The victims of the experiment were so dehydrated that they even licked the recently washed floor.
7. Sulfanilamide
Sulfanilamide is a synthetic antimicrobial agent. From July 1942 to September 1943, the Nazis, led by the German professor Gebhard, tried to determine the effectiveness of the drug in the treatment of streptococcus, tetanus and anaerobic gangrene. Who do you think they infected to conduct such experiments?
8. Mustard gas
Doctors will not find a way to cure a person from a burn with mustard gas if at least one victim of such a chemical weapon does not come to their table. Why look for someone if you can poison and train on prisoners from the German concentration camp of Sachsenhausen? This is what the minds of the Reich were doing throughout the Second World War.
9. Malaria
SS Hauptsturmführer and MD Kurt Plötner still could not find a cure for malaria. The scientist was not even helped by the thousand prisoners from Dachau who were forced to take part in his experiments. Victims were infected through the bites of infected mosquitoes and treated with various drugs. More than half of the test subjects did not survive.
10. Frostbite
German soldiers on the Eastern Front had a hard time in winter: they had a hard time enduring the harsh Russian winters. Therefore, Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments in Dachau and Auschwitz, with the help of which he tried to find a way to quickly resuscitate soldiers after frostbite. To do this, the Nazis put Luftwaffe uniforms on prisoners and placed them in ice water. There were two heating methods. The first - the victim was lowered into a bath of hot water. The second was placed between two naked women. The first method turned out to be more effective.
11. Gemini
Over one and a half thousand twins were subjected to experiments by the German physician and doctor of science Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. The scientist tried to change the color of the eyes of experimental subjects by injecting chemicals directly into the protein of the visual organ. Another crazy idea of Mengele was an attempt to create Siamese twins. To do this, the scientist stitched prisoners together. Of the 1,500 participants in the experiments, only 200 survived.
Experiments with blood clotting
Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted blood clotting experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. He created a drug, Polygal, which included beets and apple pectin. He believed that these tablets could help stop bleeding from battle wounds or during surgery.
Each test subject was given a tablet of this drug and shot in the neck or chest to test its effectiveness. Then the prisoners' limbs were amputated without anesthesia. Dr. Rusher created a company to produce these pills, which also employed prisoners.
Experiments with sulfa drugs
In the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the effectiveness of sulfonamides (or sulfa drugs) was tested on prisoners. Subjects were given incisions on the outside of their calves. Doctors then rubbed a mixture of bacteria into the open wounds and stitched them up. To simulate combat situations, glass shards were also inserted into the wounds.
However, this method turned out to be too soft compared to the conditions at the fronts. To simulate gunshot wounds, blood vessels were ligated on both sides to stop blood circulation. The prisoners were then given sulfa drugs. Despite the advances made in the scientific and pharmaceutical fields due to these experiments, prisoners suffered terrible pain, which led to severe injury or even death.
Freezing and hypothermia experiments
The German armies were ill-prepared for the cold they faced on the Eastern Front, from which thousands of soldiers died. As a result, Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Dachau to find out two things: the time required for body temperature to drop and death, and methods for reviving frozen people.
Naked prisoners were either placed in a barrel of ice water or forced outside in sub-zero temperatures. Most of the victims died. Those who had just lost consciousness were subjected to painful revival procedures. To revive the subjects, they were placed under sunlight lamps that burned their skin, forced to copulate with women, injected with boiling water, or placed in baths of warm water (which turned out to be the most effective method).
Experiments with incendiary bombs
For three months in 1943 and 1944, Buchenwald prisoners were tested on the effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs against phosphorus burns caused by incendiary bombs. The test subjects were specially burned with the phosphorus composition from these bombs, which was a very painful procedure. Prisoners suffered serious injuries during these experiments.
Experiments with sea water
Experiments were carried out on prisoners at Dachau to find ways to turn sea water into drinking water. The subjects were divided into four groups, the members of which went without water, drank sea water, drank sea water treated according to the Burke method, and drank sea water without salt.
Subjects were given food and drink assigned to their group. Prisoners who received seawater of one kind or another eventually began to suffer from severe diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, went crazy and eventually died.
In addition, subjects underwent liver needle biopsies or lumbar punctures to collect data. These procedures were painful and in most cases resulted in death.
Experiments with poisons
At Buchenwald, experiments were conducted on the effects of poisons on people. In 1943, prisoners were secretly injected with poisons.
Some died themselves from poisoned food. Others were killed for the sake of dissection. A year later, prisoners were shot with bullets filled with poison to speed up the collection of data. These test subjects experienced terrible torture.
Experiments with sterilization
As part of the extermination of all non-Aryans, Nazi doctors conducted mass sterilization experiments on prisoners of various concentration camps in search of the least labor-intensive and cheapest method of sterilization.
In one series of experiments, a chemical irritant was injected into women's reproductive organs to block the fallopian tubes. Some women have died after this procedure. Other women were killed for autopsies.
In a number of other experiments, prisoners were exposed to strong x-rays, which resulted in severe burns on the abdomen, groin and buttocks. They were also left with incurable ulcers. Some test subjects died.
Experiments on bone, muscle and nerve regeneration and bone transplantation
For about a year, experiments were carried out on prisoners in Ravensbrück to regenerate bones, muscles and nerves. Nerve surgeries involved removing segments of nerves from the lower extremities.
Experiments with bones involved breaking and setting bones in several places on the lower limbs. The fractures were not allowed to heal properly because doctors needed to study the healing process as well as test different healing methods.
Doctors also removed many fragments of the tibia from test subjects to study bone tissue regeneration. Bone transplants included transplanting fragments of the left tibia onto the right and vice versa. These experiments caused unbearable pain and severe injuries to the prisoners.
Experiments with typhus
From the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1945, doctors carried out experiments on prisoners of Buchenwald and Natzweiler in the interests of the German armed forces. They tested vaccines against typhus and other diseases.
Approximately 75% of test subjects were injected with trial typhus vaccines or other chemicals. They were injected with the virus. As a result, more than 90% of them died.
The remaining 25% of experimental subjects were injected with the virus without any prior protection. Most of them did not survive. Doctors also conducted experiments related to yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid, and other diseases. Hundreds of prisoners died, and many more suffered unbearable pain as a result.
Twin experiments and genetic experiments
The goal of the Holocaust was the elimination of all people of non-Aryan origin. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals and other people who did not meet certain requirements were to be exterminated so that only the "superior" Aryan race remained. Genetic experiments were carried out to provide the Nazi Party with scientific evidence of Aryan superiority.
Dr. Josef Mengele (also known as the "Angel of Death") was greatly interested in twins. He separated them from the rest of the prisoners upon their arrival at Auschwitz. Every day the twins had to donate blood. The actual purpose of this procedure is unknown.
Experiments with twins were extensive. They had to be carefully examined and every inch of their body measured. Comparisons were then made to determine hereditary traits. Sometimes doctors performed massive blood transfusions from one twin to the other.
Since people of Aryan origin mostly had blue eyes, experiments were done with chemical drops or injections into the iris to create them. These procedures were very painful and led to infections and even blindness.
Injections and lumbar punctures were done without anesthesia. One twin was specifically infected with the disease, and the other was not. If one twin died, the other twin was killed and studied for comparison.
Amputations and organ removals were also performed without anesthesia. Most twins who ended up in concentration camps died in one way or another, and their autopsies were the last experiments.
Experiments with high altitudes
From March to August 1942, prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were used as test subjects in experiments to test human endurance at high altitudes. The results of these experiments were supposed to help the German air force.
The test subjects were placed in a low-pressure chamber, which created atmospheric conditions at altitudes of up to 21,000 meters. Most of the test subjects died, and the survivors suffered from various injuries from being at high altitudes.
Experiments with malaria
For more than three years, more than 1,000 Dachau prisoners were used in a series of experiments related to the search for a cure for malaria. Healthy prisoners became infected with mosquitoes or extracts from these mosquitoes.
Prisoners who fell ill with malaria were then treated with various drugs to test their effectiveness. Many prisoners died. The surviving prisoners suffered greatly and basically became disabled for the rest of their lives.
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Medical experiments
During the short-lived “New Order” in Europe, the Germans
committed acts generated more by ordinary sadism than by thirst
massacres. Only for a psychiatrist there is, perhaps, a difference between
these two destructive passions, although the end result in the first case
differed from the second only in the scale of destruction of people.
The medical experiments of the Nazis are just an example of this.
sadism, since the use of concentration camp prisoners and prisoners of war in
as experimental animals has hardly enriched science. These terrible acts
which German medicine cannot be proud of. And although they carried out
"experiments" of about 200 charlatan flayers, some of whom
occupied a very responsible position in medical circles, their criminal
activities were known to thousands of leading doctors of the Reich, but not one, like about
this is evidenced by documents, did not openly express even the slightest
protest (including the most famous surgeon in Germany, Dr. Ferdinand
Sauerbruch, although he later became an anti-fascist and collaborated with the forces
Resistance. In May 1943, Sauerbruch was present at the Berlin
Military Medical Academy at a lecture given by two notorious
killer doctors - Karl Gebhardt and Fritz Fischer about experiments on
provoking gas gangrene in prisoners. The only objection
Sauerbruch made a remark at this lecture that "surgery is better
sulfonamide." Professor Gebhardt was sentenced to death at the famous
"Trial of Doctors" and hanged on June 2, 1948. Dr. Fischer was sentenced to
life imprisonment. - Approx. ed.).
Jews were not the only victims of this kind of murder. Nazi
doctors conducted experiments on Russian prisoners of war, on concentration camp prisoners,
over men and women, even over Germans. The "experiments" were very
diverse. The subjects were placed in pressure chambers and tested at high altitudes.
modes until they stopped breathing. They were injected
lethal doses of typhoid and hepatitis microbes. Experiments were carried out on them
frozen" in ice water or taken out naked in the cold until they
were freezing. They were tested by poisoned bullets and mustard gas. IN
concentration camp for women Ravensbrück to hundreds of Polish girls - “experimental subjects”
rabbits,” as they were called, were deliberately inflicted wounds and brought to
gangrene, while others were subjected to “experiments” in bone transplantation. To Dachau
and Buchenwald they selected gypsies and checked on them how many and how
A person can live on salt water. In many camps it is widespread
experiments were carried out on the sterilization of men and women, because, as he wrote
To Himmler, SS therapist Dr. Adolf Pokorny, “the enemy is necessary not only
defeat, but also eradicate." In those cases when it does not need to be killed, but
the need for labor, as we have already had the opportunity to see, by the end
war questioned the advisability of exterminating people - it should
"to deprive oneself of the ability to reproduce." In essence, as reported to Himmler
Dr. Pokorny, he managed to find suitable means for this purpose - a plant
Caladium seguinum, which, according to him, provided long-lasting
sterility.
“The very idea,” the good doctor wrote to the SS Fuhrer, “that three
million Bolsheviks now in German captivity may be
sterilized and at the same time suitable for work, opens far
upcoming prospects."
Another German doctor who discovered “far-reaching prospects” was
Professor August Hirt, head of the Institute of Anatomy at Strasbourg
university. His area of interest was somewhat different from the subjects
research by his colleagues, which he told Himmler’s adjutant
to SS Lieutenant General Rudolf Brandt in a letter written on the eve of
Christmas 1941:
"We have at our disposal a large collection of skulls from almost all
races and peoples. However, we have only a very small number of skulls
Jewish race... The war in the East presents us with a favorable
opportunity to fill this gap. With receiving skulls
Jewish-Bolshevik commissars, who represent the prototype
the most repulsive, but characteristic humanoid creatures, we get
opportunity to acquire the necessary scientific material."
Professor Hirt did not mean the skulls of "Jewish-Bolshevik
commissars", so to speak, already prepared. He suggested first measuring
living skulls. Then, after the death of the Jew - the head should not be
be damaged - the doctor will separate it from the body and place it in a hermetically sealed
closed container. After this, Dr. Hirt will begin further scientific research.
research. Himmler was very pleased. He gave instructions to ensure
Professor Hirt with everything necessary for research work. And him
provided. The responsible supplier of "scientific material" was quite
a notable Nazi named Wolfram Sivere, who repeatedly
acted as a witness at the main trial in Nuremberg, and then in
as a defendant (He was sentenced to death and hanged. - Approx.
ed.) on "The Doctors' Trial". Former bookseller Sivere rose to the rank
Colonel of the SS Troops and Executive Secretary at the Institute of Research
heredity, one of the absurd "cultural" institutions created
Himmler for research into his many crazy ideas. By
According to Sivers, there were 50 scientific institutions there, one of which
was called the Institute of Military Scientific Research, and was headed by the same
Sivere. It was a man somewhat similar to Mephistopheles, with a sly squint
eyes and a thick blue-black beard. In Nuremberg he was dubbed a Nazi
Bluebeard resembles a famous character. Like many others
participants in this story, he kept a detailed diary, which, like his
correspondence was preserved and helped him end his life on the gallows.
By June 1943, Sievers had succeeded in selecting men and women from Auschwitz
the skeletons of which were later to serve “for scientific measurements”,
conducted by Dr. Hirt, professor at the University of Strasbourg. "Total,"
Sivere reported that 115 people were processed, including 79 Jews,
30 Jews, 4 Asians and 2 Poles." At the same time, he submitted an application to the main
SS control in Berlin for the transportation of those selected "for processing" from
Auschwitz to the Natzweiler concentration camp, near Strasbourg. During the cross
interrogation in Nuremberg, the English prosecutor asked what the word meant
"processing".
“Anthropological measurements,” Sivere answered.
- That is, before they were killed, an anthropological measurement was carried out? AND
that's all they were for, right?
“Then casts were made,” Sivere added.
What followed next was told by SS captain Joseph Kramer,
a killer with extensive experience gained in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Dachau and
other concentration camps. Having earned the short-lived fame of the Belsen Beast, he was
subsequently sentenced to death by an English court in Luneburg.
"Professor Hirt from the Strasbourg Institute of Anatomy informed me about
train of prisoners coming from Auschwitz. He said that they would
killed in the gas chambers of the Natzweiler concentration camp. After this the bodies will
delivered to the Institute of Anatomy at his disposal. He gave me
a half-liter bottle filled about half with some crystals
(I think it was cyanide salts) and explained the approximate dosage that
should be used to poison those arriving from Auschwitz.
At the beginning of August 1943, I received 80 prisoners who were subject to
killing with the help of crystals given to me by Hirt. One night on
I took about 15 people to the gas chamber in a small car - the first
party. I informed the women that in order to undergo disinfection they needed to enter
camera. Of course, I didn’t say that they would be gassed there.”
By this time, the Nazis had already improved poisoning technology
gas.
“With the help of several SS soldiers,” Kramer continued, “I forced
women stripped naked and in this form pushed them into the gas chamber.
When the door slammed, they started screaming. Through a small pipe...
I poured the required amount of crystals into the chamber and began to observe in the viewing room
hole behind what is happening in the chamber. The women breathed for about another half a minute,
then they hit the floor. Then, turning off the ventilation, I opened the door and saw
lifeless bodies stained with excrement."
Captain Kramer testified that he repeated this procedure several times,
until all 80 prisoners were killed. After this, the corpses were handed over
Professor Hirt, as required. The interrogators asked Kramer a question:
what he felt at that time. Kramer gave an answer that cannot be forgotten and
which sheds light on a phenomenon characteristic of the Third Reich, but
something that seemed incomprehensible to a normal person:
"I did not have any feelings when performing these actions, since I
received an order to liquidate 80 prisoners as I have just stated
way.
That's exactly how I was trained to act, by the way."
Another witness described what happened next. His name is Henri Eripierre
(a Frenchman who worked as an assistant at the Institute of Anatomy, in
laboratory of Professor Hirt, until the entry of troops into Strasbourg
allies).
"The first batch we received included the corpses of 30 women... The bodies were
still warm. The eyes were open and shining. Red, bloodshot, they
crawled out of their orbits. Traces of blood were visible near the nose and around the mouth. But no
There were no signs of rigor mortis."
Eripier suspected that they were killed deliberately, and secretly wrote down
their personal numbers tattooed on their left arm. Then two more arrived
batches totaling 56 corpses in exactly the same condition. They were preserved in alcohol
under the direct supervision of Dr. Hirt. However, the professor showed
signs of concern about the whole affair. "Henri," he said
Eripieru, “if you can’t keep your mouth shut, you’ll become one of them.”
Nevertheless, Dr. Hirt continued to lead the work. As evidenced
correspondence of Sievers, the professor separated the heads and, according to him, collected
a collection of skulls that had never existed before. But soon arose
certain difficulties and, having heard about them from the lips of Hirt, because Sivere had never
was a specialist in medicine, especially in anatomy, head of the Institute
Heredity research reported on them on September 5, 1944 to Himmler:
"Due to the wide scale of scientific research, the processing of corpses has not yet
completed. It will take some time to process another 80 corpses."
And time was running out. Advancing American and French troops
were approaching Strasbourg. Hirt asked for "instructions regarding the fate
collections".
"It would be possible to separate soft tissue from corpses in order to exclude
their identification,” Sivere reported to headquarters on behalf of Dr. Hirt. - However, this
means that at least some of the work was done in vain and that this
the unique collection is lost to science, since it can be done later
plaster casts will not be possible.
As such, a collection of skeletons will not attract attention. Can
declare that soft tissues were left behind by the French even before
the Institute of Anatomy passed into our hands (Germany annexed Alsace after
the fall of France in 1940, and the Germans captured the University of Strasbourg -
Author's note), and that they will be burned. Please give me recommendations for
which of the three options should be used: 1) Save all
collection. 2) Partially dismantle it. 3) Completely dismantle
collection".
Witness, tell me why you wanted to separate the soft tissue? - asked
question from an English prosecutor in a silent Nuremberg courtroom. - Why
did you suggest that the blame should fall on the French?
“As a non-specialist, I could not have my own opinion on this matter,”
Nazi Bluebeard replied, “I was just conveying Dr. Hirt’s request.” I don't
had nothing to do with the murder of these people. I played the role of a postman.
“You worked like a whole post office,” interrupted the prosecutor, “still
one of those so famous Nazi post offices, isn't it?
This Nazi’s defense, like that of many others at trial, was made up by whites
threads, and the prosecution easily drove him into a corner.
Captured SS archives made it possible to establish that on October 26, 1944
Sievers reported: “The collection in Strasbourg is completely depleted
according to the received directive. This is the best way out, given the current situation
situation."
Eripier later described an attempt, although not entirely successful, to hide
traces of crimes:
"In September 1944, when the Allies began to advance on Belfort, Hirt
ordered Bong and Herr Meyer to dismember the corpses and burn them in the crematorium... I
asked Herr Meyer the next day if he had dismembered all the bodies, but
Herr Bong replied: “We couldn’t dismember all the bodies, it’s too big
Job. We left several corpses in storage."
When, a month later, units led by the French 2nd Armored
division operating as part of the American 7th Army entered Strasbourg,
these corpses were discovered there by the Allies (Professor Hirt went into hiding. Leaving
Strasbourg, he is reported to have boasted that no one could take him alive
it will succeed. Apparently he was right, since he was neither alive nor dead to be found
failed. - Approx. ed.).
Not only skulls, but also human skin were used by apologists
"new order", although in the latter case they could no longer hide behind
service to science. The skin of concentration camp prisoners specially destroyed during this
diabolical purpose, had only decorative value. From her, how
it turned out that they made excellent lampshades, and several of them were
made especially for Frau Ilse Koch, wife of the concentration camp commandant in
Buchenwald, nicknamed by the prisoners the Buchenwald Bitch (Frau Koch, power
which over the life and death of prisoners was limitless and any whim
which could cost the prisoner a terrible punishment, was sentenced to
Buchenwald trial to life imprisonment. Subsequently, however,
her sentence was reduced to four years, and soon she was released altogether
freedom. On January 15, 1951, she was sentenced by a German court to
life imprisonment for murder. During the war, for "excesses" her husband was
sentenced to death by the SS court. However, he was given the right
choice - death or service on the Russian front. But before he could
Using it, the head of the SS district, Prince Waldeck, achieved his execution.
Princess Mafalda, daughter of the king and queen, also died in Buchenwald.
Italy, wife of Prince Philip of Hesse. - Approx. ed.). Tattooed skin
was in great demand. A camp prisoner talks about this at the Nuremberg trials
German Andreas Pfaffenberger gave the following testimony under oath:
"...All prisoners who had a tattoo were ordered to report to
dispensary... After examination, prisoners with the most artistic
the tattoo was killed by injection. Their corpses were delivered to
pathological department, where flaps of tattooed skin were separated from the body,
then subjected to appropriate processing. Finished products
passed on to Koch's wife, on whose instructions lampshades and
other decorative household items."
On one piece of leather, which probably produced a particularly strong
Frau Koch was impressed by a tattoo with the inscription: “Hansel and Gretel.”
In another camp, at Dachau, the demand for such leather often exceeded
offer. A camp prisoner, Czech doctor Dr. Frank Blaha, testified in
Nuremberg the following:
"Sometimes there weren't enough bodies with good skin, and then Dr. Rusher said:
"It's okay, you'll get the bodies." The next day we received twenty or
thirty bodies of young people. They were killed by a shot to the head or a blow to the
head, but the skin remained intact... The skin had to come from
healthy people and have no defects."
Apparently, it was Dr. Sigmund Rascher who was responsible for most
sadistic medical experiments. This inveterate charlatan has attracted attention
Himmler, one of whose obsessions was the development of more and more
full generations of the Nordic race, spreading rumors in SS circles about
that Frau Rascher, after forty-eight years, gave birth to three children, different
more advanced qualities from the point of view of racial theory. IN
in reality, the Rusher family simply kidnapped children from orphanages
houses at appropriate intervals. In the spring of 1941, Dr.
Rascher, who was attending special medical courses in Munich at that time,
organized by the Luftwaffe, a brilliant idea suddenly came to mind. May 15
1941, he wrote about her to Himmler. To his horror, Dr. Rasher discovered
that experiments to study the effects of high altitudes on pilots were stuck on
dead point. "Until now it was impossible to conduct experiments
in public, because they are dangerous to the health of test subjects, and volunteers,
“There are no people ready to be subjected to them,” wrote the “researcher.” - They couldn’t
would you provide two or three professional criminals... for
participation in these experiments. Experiments in which they will probably die,
will be carried out with my participation."
A week later the SS Fuhrer replied that “prisoners, of course, will
willingly provided for high-altitude experiments." They were
granted, and Dr. Rasher got to work. The results can be judged by
his own reports and the reports of other “experimenters”. These
documents appeared at the Nuremberg and subsequent trials, in particular
over SS doctors.
Dr. Rascher's description of his research may serve as a model
pseudoscientific jargon. To conduct high-altitude experiments, he organized
transfer of an Air Force pressure chamber from Munich directly to a concentration camp near Dachau, where
there was a shortage of human material intended for the role of experimental subjects
rabbits. The air was being pumped out of the newly invented contraption.
so that conditions of absence of oxygen and low pressure were simulated,
characteristic of high altitudes. After this, Dr. Rascher proceeded to
observations.
"The third experiment was carried out in the absence of oxygen,
corresponding to an altitude of 29,400 feet (8820 meters). The subject was a Jew 37
years old in good physical condition. Breathing continued for 30 minutes.
Four minutes after the start, the subject began to sweat and twist
head.
Five minutes later the cramps appeared; between the sixth and tenth minutes
the breathing rate increased, the subject began to lose consciousness. From the eleventh
By the thirtieth minute, breathing slowed to three breaths per minute and completely
stopped by the end of the test period... Half an hour after stopping
breathing began to open."
Austrian prisoner Anton Pacholeg, who worked in the department of Dr.
Rascher, described the “experiments” in less scientific language:
"I personally saw through the observation window of the pressure chamber how prisoners
endured the vacuum until the lungs ruptured. They were going crazy
They tore out their hair, trying to relieve the pressure. They scratched themselves
head and face with nails and tried to mutilate themselves in a fit of madness, fought
head against the walls and shouted, trying to relieve the pressure on the drums
membranes. Such experiments ended, as a rule, in the death of the subjects."
About 200 prisoners were subjected to these experiments before Dr.
Rusher completed them. Of this number, as it became known at the Doctors' Trial,
about 80 died on the spot, the rest were liquidated a little later,
so that no one could talk about what happened.
This "research" program ended in May 1942, when
Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Luftwaffe conveyed Goering's gratitude to Himmler
for the innovative "experiments" of Dr. Rascher. Some time later, 10
October 1942, Lieutenant General Dr. Hippke, Aviation Inspector
medicine, expressed to Himmler on behalf of German aviation medicine and science
his deepest gratitude for the "experiments" at Dachau. However, on his
Look, there was one omission in them. They did not take into account extremely low
temperatures in which the pilot operates at high altitudes. For the purpose
to correct this deficiency, Dr. Hippke informed Himmler that the Air Force
began the construction of a pressure chamber equipped with a cooling system,
capable of reproducing cold at altitudes up to 100 thousand feet (30 thousand
meters). He added that experiments at low temperatures
various programs are still ongoing in Dachau.
They actually continued. And again under the leadership of Dr. Rascher.
However, some of his fellow doctors were plagued by doubts: was it Christian?
is Dr. Rascher coming in? A number of Luftwaffe doctors began to seriously think about this
check. Upon learning of this, Himmler became furious and immediately sent
an indignant message to Field Marshal Milch, condemning the atmosphere of difficulties,
created by "Christian medical circles" in the Air Force. At the same time he asked
Chief of Staff of the Air Force to relieve Dr. Rusher from the medical service
Air Force, so that he could work in the SS. Himmler suggested finding a "doctor
non-Christian, worthy of a scientist, capable of continuing valuable research
Dr. Rasher. At the same time, Himmler emphasized that he “takes upon himself
responsibility for sending antisocial individuals to Air Force research centers
persons and criminals from concentration camps who deserve nothing but
death."
The "freezing experiments" conducted by Dr. Rusher were
two types: the first - in order to find out how cold it is and how long it is
a person can endure before he dies; the second - with the aim of finding
the best ways to warm a person who is still alive after he has been exposed to
exposure to extremely low temperatures. For freezing people
two methods were used: either the person was placed in a tank with ice
water, or left naked in the snow overnight in winter. Rusher
sent numerous reports to Himmler about his "experiments in
freezing and heating." One or two examples will give a complete idea of
them. One of the very first was a report presented on September 10, 1942
year:
“The subjects were immersed in water in full flight gear... with a hood.
Life jackets kept them afloat. Experiments were carried out
at a water temperature of 36.5 to 53.5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.5 to 12
degrees Celsius). In the first series of tests, the back of the cheeks and the base
the skulls were under water. In the second, the back of the neck and
cerebellum. The temperature was measured using an electric thermometer
stomach and rectum, which was 79.5 degrees respectively
Fahrenheit (27.5 degrees Celsius) and 79.7 degrees Fahrenheit (27.6
degrees Celsius). Death occurred only if the oblong
the brain and cerebellum were immersed in water.
At autopsy, after death in the specified conditions, it was found that
a large mass of blood, up to half a liter, accumulated in the cranial cavity. In the heart
maximal dilatation of the right ventricle was regularly detected.
Subjects in such experiments inevitably died, despite all efforts to
rescue if body temperature dropped to 82.5 degrees Fahrenheit (28
degrees Celsius). Autopsy data clearly demonstrates the importance
heating the head and the need to protect the neck, which must be taken into account when
development of sponge protective overalls, which is currently underway
time".
The table which Dr. Rasher appended to his report is compiled on
based on six "fatal cases" and reflects the water temperature, temperature
body when removed from water, body temperature at the time of death,
duration of stay in water and time elapsed before the onset of
death. The strongest man was able to stay in icy water for
for 100 minutes, the weakest - for 53.
Walter Neff, a camp prisoner who served as an orderly under Dr. Rascher, gave
testimony at the "Trial of Doctors", in which one of the
experiments on human hypothermia in ice water:
"It was the worst experiment ever
were carried out. Two Russian officers were brought from the prison barracks. Rusher
ordered to undress them and put them in a vat of ice water. Although usually subjects
lost consciousness within sixty minutes, but both Russians were in
fully conscious and after two and a half hours. All requests to Rasher
it was futile to euthanize them. Around the end of the third hour, one of the Russians
said to another: “Comrade, tell the officer to shoot us.” Another
replied that he did not expect mercy “from this fascist dog.” Both shook hands
hands to a friend with the words “Farewell, comrade”... These words were translated by Rasher
a young Pole, although in a slightly different form. Rusher went into his office.
The young Pole wanted to immediately put the two martyrs to sleep with Chloroform, but Rasher
soon returned and, snatching a pistol, threatened us... The experiment did not continue
less than five hours before death occurred."
The nominal leader of the first experiments in ice water was a certain
Dr. Holzlechner, Professor of Medicine at the University of Kiel. Helped him
a certain Dr. Finke. After working with Rusher for a couple of months, they came to the conclusion that
the possibilities of experimentation have been exhausted. After this, three doctors wrote
top secret 32-page report entitled "Experiments on
freezing a person" and sent him to Air Force headquarters. On their own initiative, 26 and
On October 27, 1942, a conference of German scientists was convened in Nuremberg
to discuss the results of their research. Medical aspects were discussed
emergency incidents on the high seas and in winter conditions. From
the testimony presented at the Doctors' Trial shows that
The conference was attended by 95 German scientists, including the most famous
doctors And although there was no doubt that the three doctors during
experiments deliberately brought a large number of people to death, they were not
not a single question was asked in this regard and, accordingly, not a single one was voiced
protest.
Professor Holzlechner (Perhaps Professor Holzlechner experienced
remorse. Arrested by the British, he committed suicide after
first interrogation. - Approx. author) and Dr. Finke had moved away from
experiments, but Dr. Rascher stubbornly continued them alone from October 1942
until May next year. Among other things, he wanted to conduct experiments,
which he called "dry freezing". He wrote to Himmler:
"Auschwitz is more suitable for conducting such tests than Dachau,
since the climate in Auschwitz is somewhat colder, and also because in this
camp experiments will attract less attention due to its larger area
(subjects scream loudly when frozen)."
For some reason it was not possible to transfer the experiments to Auschwitz, so Dr.
Rascher continued his research in Dachau, hoping for a real winter
weather.
“Thank God, severe cold has returned to us in Dachau,” he wrote
Himmler in the early spring of 1943. - Some subjects were on
outdoors for 14 hours at an outside temperature of 21 degrees Celsius
Fahrenheit (-6.1 Celsius), while body temperature dropped to 77
degrees Fahrenheit (-25 Celsius) and frostbite was observed
limbs..."
At the Doctors' Trial, witness Neff also gave an unprofessional statement
description of the "dry freezing experiments" conducted by his boss:
“One evening, a completely naked prisoner was taken out of the barracks and
put on a stretcher. They covered him with a sheet and poured water on him every hour.
a bucket of cold water. This continued until the morning. At the same time, it was regularly measured
temperature.
Dr. Rusher later stated that it was a mistake to cover the subject
sheets, and then pour water... In the future, persons undergoing experiments will
should not be covered. The following experiment was carried out on ten
prisoners who were taken outside one by one, also naked."
As people froze, Dr. Rasher or his assistant
recorded temperature, heart function, respiration, etc. The silence of the night was often
were broken by the heartbreaking cries of the martyrs.
“Initially,” Neff explained to the court, “Rusher forbade conducting
tests under anesthesia. But the subjects raised such a cry that they continued
Rascher could no longer carry out experiments without anesthesia..."
The subjects were left to die, in Himmler's words, "as they were
deserved", in vats of ice water or naked on frozen ground
outside the barracks. Those who survived were quickly destroyed. But the valiant Germans
pilots and sailors, for whose benefit the “experiments” were carried out,
needed to be rescued after they made an emergency landing in
icy waters of the Arctic Ocean or landed on shackled
frosty expanses of Arctic Norway, Finland or Northern Russia. AND
the incomparable Dr. Rascher began "warming experiments" on
people who have become guinea pigs. He wanted to know what was the best
method of warming up a frozen person and what, accordingly, are the possibilities for
saving his life.
Heinrich Himmler immediately handed over to the corps those who worked tirelessly under him
the beginning of scientists recommending "practical solutions." He suggested to Rusher
try the method of warming with “animal heat”, but the doctor at first did not give
great importance to this idea. "Warming with animal warmth, be it the body
animal or woman, the process is too slow,” he wrote to the SS chief.
However, Himmler continued to persistently convince him:
"I am extremely interested in experiments with animal heat. Personally, I
I am convinced that such experiments will provide the best and most reliable
results."
Despite his skepticism, Dr. Rasher was not one to dare
ignore the offer coming from the leader of the SS. He just started
series of the most absurd "experiments" ever conducted,
recording them for future generations in all the repulsive details. From
women's concentration camp Ravensbrück sent him to Dachau four prisoners
women. However, the involvement of one of them in the experiments (all of them took place as
prostitutes) embarrassed the doctor, and he decided to report this to his superiors:
"One of the admitted women has pronounced Nordic characteristics.
racial traits... I asked the girl why she voluntarily went to work
to a brothel, to which she replied: “To get out of the concentration camp.” When
I objected that it was a shame to be a corrupt woman, she answered without embarrassment:
“It’s better to spend six months in a brothel than six months in a concentration camp.”
My racial conscience is seething with rage at the thought of having to
exposed naked in front of racially inferior elements from
concentration camp, a girl who is outwardly the purest
a sample of the Nordic race... Due to the above, I refuse to use
this girl for my experiments."
However, he used others whose hair was less blond and whose eyes
not so blue. The results of the experiments were duly presented to Himmler in
report dated February 12, 1942, marked "Secret".
"The subjects were cooled in a known manner - with or without clothing -
in cold water at different temperatures... Removal from water was carried out at
reaching a rectal temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius)
Celsius). On eight occasions, subjects were placed between two naked
women on a wide bed. At the same time, the women were instructed to cling to
chilled person as tightly as possible. Then all three were covered
blankets.
Having regained consciousness, the subjects did not lose it again. They're fast
realized what was happening to them and pressed themselves tightly against their naked bodies
women. In this case, the temperature increased at approximately the same
speed, as in the subjects who were warmed by wrapping them in blankets.
The exception was four subjects who had sexual intercourse
when body temperature ranged from 86 to 89.5 degrees Fahrenheit (30
up to 33 degrees Celsius). These individuals developed a very rapid temperature rise,
which can only be compared to the effect of a hot bath."
To his surprise, Dr. Rascher discovered that one woman was warming
a frozen person faster than two.
"I attribute this to the fact that when warming up by one woman there is no
internal inhibition and the woman presses more tightly to the cooled one. IN
In this case, the return of full consciousness also occurred significantly
faster. In only one case was it noted that the subject did not regain consciousness and
his body temperature increased slightly. He died with symptoms
cerebral hemorrhages, which was later confirmed by an autopsy.”
To sum it up, this vile murderer concluded that heating the chilled
with the help of women "proceeds rather slowly" and that the effect of a hot bath
more efficient.
“Only those subjects,” he concluded, “whose physical condition
allowed sexual intercourse, warmed up surprisingly quickly and returned to
normal physical condition extremely quickly."
According to the testimony of witnesses who spoke at the "Trial of Doctors", in general,
About 400 “freezing” experiments were carried out on 300 prisoners. IN
During the experiments, between 80 and 90 people died. The rest, with a few exceptions,
destroyed later, and some went crazy. By the way, Dr. himself
Rasher was not among those who testified at the trial. He
continued his bloody deeds, implementing numerous new plans, too
too numerous to talk about each separately. They continued until May
1944, when he and his wife were arrested by the SS, apparently not for
criminal "experiments" in killing people, and on charges "of
he and his wife resorted to deception in the story of the origin of their children."
Himmler, who bowed before German mothers, did not commit such treachery.
could demolish it. He sincerely believed that Frau Rascher was really starting to get excited
children aged forty-eight years. And he became furious when he learned that she was simply
kidnapped them. Therefore, Dr. Rascher was put in a bunker for political prisoners in
the Dachau concentration camp so familiar to him, and his wife was sent to
Ravensbrück, from where the doctor was supplied with prostitutes for “warming” experiments.
Not a single one left the camp alive. It is believed that Himmler is in one of his
the last orders ordered their liquidation, because they could turn out to be
too inconvenient witnesses.
Several of these unwanted witnesses did survive to see the trial. Seven of
they were sentenced to death and hanged - they defended their opinion to the end,
that deadly "experiments" are patriotic acts aimed at
good of the Fatherland. Dr. Herta Oberhäuser, the only one of those accused
The "doctors' trial" woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
She admitted to giving lethal injections to "five or six Polish
women" from hundreds who experienced all the torments of hell during various
"experiments" in Ravensbrück. A number of doctors, like the notorious Pokorny
who planned to sterilize millions of enemies were acquitted. Some
sincerely repented. At the second trial, where the junior medical officer was tried
staff, Dr. Edwin Katzenellenbogen, former faculty member
Harvard Medical School, asked for the death penalty.
“You put the seal of Cain on my forehead,” he exclaimed. “Any doctor,
he who committed the crimes of which I am accused deserves death."
sentenced to life imprisonment.
It is known that Nazi doctors conducted numerous experiments on prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners. These were both men and women. Experiments were even carried out on Germans.
Experiments on prisoners in concentration camps are known for their unprecedented cruelty. Such experiments, by the way, were very diverse. The subjects could be placed in pressure chambers and then tested at different altitude conditions. This was done until people stopped breathing.
Experiments on prisoners in concentration camps were also carried out in other forms. People were injected with lethal doses of hepatitis and typhoid microbes. Freezing experiments were also carried out on them in very cold water.
Nazi Germany is notorious for the horrors of its concentration camps.
The horror of the Nazi camp system was terror and tyranny.
Scientific research was organized on a large scale.
People were taken naked into the cold until they froze.
They were also tested by poisoned bullets and mustard gas.
In the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, hundreds of Polish girls were wounded and driven to gangrene.
Others were subjected to “experiments” in bone transplantation.
In Buchenwald, gypsies were selected and tested to see how long and how a person could live on salt water.
In many camps, experiments on sterilization of men and women were widely carried out.
The possibility of maintaining people's performance under conditions of excessive stress has been actively studied.
New drugs were also tested.
Experiments with malaria.
Experiments were also carried out with mustard gas.
