Eugenics And Human Experiments In Ww2

The Use of Eugenics and Human Experiments in WW2

During World War Two there was a need for brand new technology to outdo the other countries. This idea led to lots of bizarre and cruel experiments to find the best way to conduct warfare. These experiments range from cross insemination of humans and chimpanzees, to biological weapon testing, to trying to create conjoined twins by sewing two people together. Some of these cases were justified by the conductors to try to create a new better form of warfare, others were done as a study to promote eugenics. These experiments were done by many countries during WW2 including Germany, Russia, Japan, and the USA. Germany is probably the most famous offender of these experiments. They would perform

They had seemingly unending subjects to test on at the concentration camps. This led to the hiring of German scientists like Joseph Mengele (The Angel of Death) and Aribert Heim (The Butcher of Mauthenusen.) Joseph Mengele who was funded by The Rockefeller Foundation and was stationed at Auschwitz took joy out of his work. He would be seen smiling and whistling as he chose who was fit to work and who would be sent to the gas chambers. He used this opportunity to choose subjects for his experiments mainly targeting twins. He wanted to see how one twin's genetics would affect the other infecting one with typhus and then transfusing their blood. He would take measurements on all their bodies every week. It must be stated most of his subjects were children and without anesthesia he would even earn the children's trust by making them call him Uncle Mengele and giving them candy before mutilating them and harvesting their organs to study. He crudely sewed two twins together to see if they would survive. They died of gangrene a week later after being in immense pain. Mengele was so unbelievably cruel it's hard to wrap your head around. He performed a vivisection (where you split something open and examine how everything works while it's alive) on a pregnant woman without

Mengele was given an opportunity to do all he did because of the study of eugenics. The goal was to find physiological impurities with the jewish race, but he was said to be an empathetic sociopath and enjoyed what he did. Which he and Aribert Heim Have in common. Unlike Mengele though, Heim didn't do what he did for any particular reason. He worked as a doctor in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and would inject different solutions and chemicals like petrol and chloroform directly into people's hearts to see which one would kill the fastests. He was known to skin and butcher people for no apparent reason, castrating and sawing off the head of an 18 year old boy for the sake of having his skull as a paper weight. Heim would skin prisoners and use their skins to create seat backings and give them to nazi officers as gifts. All these atrocities were justified by the nazis because of hitlers racial hygiene idea believing that these people had to die and were polluting the gene