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The experiments performed by these doctors were generally done in the concentration camps. Although these camps spread far and wide,[| the main camps] where these docotrs did there work were Sachenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Ravenbruek, and, of course, Auschwitz.

Auschwitzwas the notorious home of Dr. Mengele. Here Mengele and his associates did lots of work on twins and children. He also did work with gypsies and others to try to find out differences in diseases between races. Doctors such as August Hirt attempted to established Jewish racial inferiority by spreading contagious diseases and seeing who caught it. With the Help of Dr. Mengele, Auschwitz became one of the first camps where human experimentation was routine. Robert Jay Lifton reognizes this in his book, //The Nazi Doctors//, saying, "Auschwitz marked a radical escalation in both the vision and the technology of mass murder," (Lifton 157)

At Dachau many of the experiments were done to try to get information that would be helpful to the Germans and the German army. High and low altitude experiments were being performed in high and low pressure chambers. They did these types of experiments to figure out from which heights German aviators could parachute down from safely. They also subjected the prisoners to extreme cold to figure out the breaking point in human beings in Hypothermical conditions. Some prisoners were forced to drink water with different amounts of salt to see if saltwater could ever be drinkable.

At some of the other places such as Sachenhausen and Natzweiler, doctors exposed patients to many different deadly diseases to test different cures and antidotes. At Ravenbruek many experimental drugs were tested such as the newly developed sulfa drugs. At these camps prisoners were also used to test the efficiancy of killer drugs and gases such as mustard gas.

Although these were the main camps where deadly medical experiments took place, historians believe that this sort of thing happened in most camps across Nazi Germany.

By Matt Kirchner For more information on al the camps follow the link in the first paragraph. For more information on the medicine and doctors at Auschwitz, click [|here] .