Hitler Human Experiments

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The reasons of Nazi party conducting human experiment on World War II After the end of World War II, twenty Nazi doctors were brought to the International Military Tribunal as they were accused of conducting the unethical human experiments on those victims on World War II. They were sued for the war crimes that were against humanity at the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz. Hitler's intention of sponsoring a chain of inhumane experiments for asserting ideological and fortifying military performances. Fascism and racism were two vital motivations of Nazi party to perform brutal human experiments on the concentration camp inhabitants, especially the Jews and Gypsies. In addition, the party tried…show more content…
Cotter (2015) stated that the trigger for holocaust and human experiments on Jews and Gypsies was, the Nazis felt their status and power were threatened during the setback in the Russian military campaign. Beside, the Fascists considered the violent dictatorship was acceptable. Therefore, Hitler opened different kinds of access for his cronies to have the culminating genocides as to take over the Nazi regime. As a result, the unprincipled human experiments were conducted as to demonstrate the power of Nazi party. Hitler attempted to place himself in a surpassing position that could seie the power by deploying violent and leading political…show more content…
The Nazi doctors thought the prisoners of Jews and Gypsies would condemn to death in the concentration camps anyway, therefore, it was morally correct for them to perform the brutal human experiments and those experiments could also contribute to the Nazi party as well. Cohen (1989) named that there were mainly three major categories of the Nazi experiments: (1) Medico-Military Research; (2) Miscellaneous, Ad Hoc Experiments; and (3) Racially Motivated Experiments. He also concluded that the fatal human experiments had three features. "These acts of torture were characterized by several shocking features: (1) the dangerous studies were against to the victims will; (2) nearly all subjects endured incredible suffering, mutilation, and indescribable pain; and (3) the experiments were designed in a fatal outcome." (Cohen,
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