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The Nazi physicians performed brutal and horrific medical experiments upon helpless concentration camp inmates against their consent. Nazi experiments and procedures have been categorized into three basic categories: 1. Medico-Military Research; Hitler's regime sponsored a series of inhumane experiments for alleged ideological, military, and medical purposes. The purpose of these experiments was to simulate wartime conditions that soldiers would have to endure and to create solutions or alternatives to them. The Nazi doctors justified these actions by claiming they were military necessities as well as claiming that the prisoners were condemned to death anyway so the matter in the way their died should not be considered. These procedures consisted of those such as Sea Water, Freezing Temperatures, High Altitude testing. 2.Miscellaneous, Ad Hoc Experiments; In addition to justifying these unspeakable acts of torture as military necessities, they also conducted experiments that appeared to have no scientific inquiry behind them. (Poison and wound experiments) 3.Racially Motivated Experiments; The Nazi doctors also conducted experiments which were focused on anthropological, genetic, and racial goals. These actions were based on the Nazi Aryan beliefs as they attempted to study the genetics of “other races” and see if they could create variations (Artificial insemination, twin, sterilization)

During the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg or as they are commonly referred to as the “doctor trials,” 23 Nazi doctors were brought before the court directly after the end of the war. Only 15 of these men were found guilty on committing crimes against humanity along with war crimes. Of the 15 found guilty, only 7 were hung for their crimes. (Citation 18 on Wiki) Tyson, Peter. Holocaust on Trial: The Experiments. NOVA Online. October 2000. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/experiside.html.

Holocaust survivor Susan Vigorito was only 3 and a half when she and her twin sister, Hannah, were brought to Auschwitz. They were housed for an entire year in Josef Mengele's private lab in a wooden cage 5 and a half feet wide. Without anesthetic, Mengele would repeatedly scrape at the bone tissue of one of Susan’s legs. Her sister died from repeated injections to her spinal column.

Cite the altitude to which they were exposed- 68,000 ft (change from 66,00 ft)