Talk:Nazi human experimentation

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Methodology of the Seawater Experiments
mentions the use of Silver Nitrate, "The IG method uses mainly sulpha nitrate" (PAGE 7,985)
 * I don't know the ethics of all this, so there is that major issue before plastering this all over the page, but i guess there is some historical value of having the whole truth (no vagueness)
 * I may not even be qualified per se, and don't want to be perceived as pretending to be so. I am mainly just documenting the "rabbit hole" i encountered when reading up on this, in case others may find it useful.
 * It is a bit unclear in the rudimentary search i have conducted, but there seem to have been:
 * 1.) A Control Group (Brutally giving people seawater alone)
 * 2.) A Group Given The "Berka Method" which seems to have been focused on not reducing the salinity of the water, but rather "making it palatable"
 * "The only thing true in this sentence is that no special plants were necessary for producing this preparation. That was really an advantage to this method. Berkatit could be produced in any sugar factory. As for the statement that the preparations were not scarce materials, I may point out that the preparations needed were glucose."
 * So it seems like it's basically sweetened seawater, something one could maybe "get down", but even the people being prosecuted realized to some degree would never have worked
 * 3.) The "Wofatit method"
 * Also referred to as the "The IG method" due to who worked on it (if i understand correctly) "Dr Schaefer, previously employed in collaboration with IG Farben"
 * As per The Vincent Reynouard transcription, can be traced back to the primary crimes against humanity trial papers
 * This was some sort of chemical additive ( / additive blend), the Wofatit (and potentially a filter of some sorts, to remove precipitate)
 * It would supposedly react with/precipitate (some of) the salts making the Seawater less salty, and thus potentially drinkable
 * I'm not a chemist, however the Wikipedia page on Silver nitrate mentions "Halide abstraction" which seems to be the relevant mechanism
 * This Site (The Sea Water Medical Experiments by Vincent Reynouard - Translated by C. Porter - (sound track of video) )
 * A Mention of a "Permutit process" done on the "Anglo-American" side of the war, however i haven't looked into this too much
 * "The effect achieved with the Anglo-American method was not so farreaching as that achieved with ours. Apart from the fact that our remaining sodium chloride content was only half that of the Permutit Company, we also achieved an almost complete elimination of the sulfate content, while with the Permutit process the sulfate Content remained in the water. We had occasionally voiced our intention of not removing the sulfate from the water. Dr. Schaefer, however, raised objections, pointing out the disadvantage of a laxative effect of the sulfate content." (PAGE 8,373)
 * Below are the links i found/used:
 * HLS NUREMBERG TRIALS PROJECT - Transcript for NMT 1: Medical Case ~Page 7,863 (I heavily relied on ctrl+f and keywords to be honest, but proper research could probably benefit from a full readthrough etc)
 * The Sea Water Medical Experiments by Vincent Reynouard - Translated by C. Porter - (sound track of video)
 * Various On-Wiki Pages
 * Again this was a VERY rudimentary search, but i thought i might as well document it here in case anyone in the future is looking into this for some proper historical work etc

--Eric Lotze (talk) 20:57, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 October 2023
I request for the Category:Crimes against humanity to be added to the External links. 95.147.63.116 (talk) 16:12, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The External Links section is for links that lead outside of Wikipedia - the See Also section is also not appropriate in this case as it is only for other articles. The article is already categorized under Category:Nazi war crimes, which is itself already categorized under Category:Crimes against humanity. Tollens (talk) 19:56, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The Category:Nazi war crimes is no longer categorized under crimes against humanity. 95.147.63.116 (talk) 21:29, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 May 2024
The following appears to be a repeated description of an event. " Another study placed prisoners naked in the open air for several hours with temperatures as low as −6 °C (21 °F). Besides studying the physical effects of cold exposure, the experimenters also assessed different methods of rewarming survivors. "One assistant later testified that some victims were thrown into boiling water for rewarming." Beginning in August 1942, at the Dachau camp, prisoners were forced to sit in tanks of freezing water for up to three hours. After subjects were frozen, they then underwent different methods for rewarming. Many subjects died in this process. Others were also forced to stand naked outside in below freezing temperatures, with many screaming in pain as their bodies froze. " Hail~Fire 15:19, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 15:36, 27 May 2024 (UTC)