How Did Hitler Use Negative Eugenics?

During World War II, Nazi scientists conducted human medical experiments in various concentration camps. Victims of these experiments included prisoners of war, and primarily Jews. They were not treated as humans, but rather as lab rats. Surgery was performed without sedatives. Patients were subjected to extreme conditions, such as boiling water. But why? Why were these experiments conducted in the first place? As the war raged on, new obstacles came in the direction of the Germans. The experiments were conducted partially intending to help resolve these solutions. Other reasons were to help fulfill the Nazi party’s larger visions. Modern ethical guidelines for Human medical experimentation are a direct result of Nazi experimentation conducted

positive eugenics." Hitler planned to control the demographics of the population around the world. In order to improve upon the master, race, the Aryans, Hitler wanted to use eugenics to control birth rate, death rate, and traits of offspring. An ideal heritage would have been created. Negative eugenics is the prevention of reproduction by people who carry undesirable traits and/or genetic defects. Positive eugenics involves the encouragement of reproduction by people who carry desirable, heritable traits. Various experiments were taken place, such as artificial insemination. Dr. Carl Clauberg had once treated a high-ranking officer’s infertile wife. Upon hearing this, Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi party member, had ordered Clauberg to to continue his work in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Specifically, he was stanition in Block 10, which consisted mostly of married women. Women who had not previously given birth were preferable for experimentation. Three hundred women were victims of Clauberg work. Perhaps the greatest experiment that would have contributed to Hitler’s ideal world was the work of Dr. Joseph Mengele on twins. Mengele was the most notorious doctor in Nazi science due to his experiments. He was given the nickname “Angel of Death”. Consumed by the ideology of Arianism, Mengele conducted experiments on twins. He had to discover hidden truths regarding human reproduction. The end goal was the same as Hitler’s—To expand the Aryan race and German population throughout the world. Only two hundred out of one tho and twins survived Mengele's experiments. (Cohen,