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Nazi human experimentation

Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There were 15,754 documented victims, of various nationalities and age groups, although the true number is believed to be more extensive. Many survived, with only a quarter of documented victims killed. Survivors generally experienced severe permanent injuries.[1]

At Auschwitz and other camps, under the direction of Eduard Wirths, selected inmates were subjected to various experiments that were designed to help German military personnel in combat situations, develop new weapons, aid in the recovery of military personnel who had been injured, and to advance Nazi racial ideology and eugenics,[2] including the twin experiments of Josef Mengele.[3] Aribert Heim conducted similar medical experiments at Mauthausen.[4]


After the war, these crimes were tried at what became known as the Doctors' Trial, and revulsion at the abuses perpetrated led to the development of the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics. The Nazi physicians in the Doctors' Trial argued that military necessity justified their experiments and compared their victims to collateral damage from Allied bombings.

List of Nazi doctors who conducted human experiments

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List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations

Nazi eugenics

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(21 July 1985). "What Made This Man? Mengele". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2014.

Lifton, Robert Jay

Lifton, Robert Jay (1986). The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Basic Books.  978-0-465-04904-2. OCLC 13334966.

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(1992). "Mengele Twins and Human Experimentation: A Personal Account". In Annas, George J.; Grodin, Michael A. (eds.). The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 53–59. ISBN 978-0-19-510106-5.

Mozes-Kor, Eva

; Ware, John (1986). Mengele: The Complete Story. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-050598-8.

Posner, Gerald L.

Annas, George J. (1992). . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510106-5.

The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation

Baumslag, N. (2005). Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus. Praeger Publishers.  0-275-98312-9

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Michalczyk, J. (Dir.) (1997). In The Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine. First Run Features. (video)

Nyiszli, M. (2011). "3". Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. New York: Arcade Publishing.

Rees, L. (2005). Auschwitz: A New History. Public Affairs.  1-58648-357-9

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Weindling, P.J. (2005). Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent. Palgrave Macmillan.  1-4039-3911-X

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USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (1950). . United States Air Force.

German Aviation Medicine, World War II

from Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project: "Forget You Not"

The Infamous Medical Experiments

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Online Exhibition:

Doctors Trial

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Online Exhibition:

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Library Bibliography:

Medical Experiments

Jewish Virtual Library: Medical Experiments Table of Contents