Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview: How the Nazi Eugenic Crusade for a Superior Race Caused the Greatest Holocaust in World History by Jerry Bergman

Author:Jerry Bergman [Bergman, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Chrisitian
ISBN: 9781894400497
Amazon: 1894400496
Barnesnoble: 1894400496
Publisher: Joshua Press
Published: 2012-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

In the Auschwitz camp, the new prisoners were divided into four groups. The first were those who were judged unable to do heavy work, which included about three quarters of all the inmates, including all children, most woman with children, the elderly and those judged physically unfit—not uncommonly for minor reasons such as a limp.21 The second group included the men who appeared healthy enough for hard labour. The third group consisted of women who were put to work on various tasks, such as sorting the inmates’ belongings so they could be sent to Germans in need.

The fourth group were those that Mengele wanted to use for his race research, including twins, dwarfs and others. During his twenty-one months at Auschwitz, Mengele was able to experiment on 3,000 twins alone.22 This group often suffered greatly from excruciating pain as a result of Mengele’s experiments.23 Ironically, Mengele was also known for the kindness he expressed to those he experimented on, and for this reason was known as “the angel of death”—he exhibited a bizarre combination of elegance, politeness and evil.24 One reason for the kindness was he did not want his experimental subjects beaten or mistreated because such treatment could affect his research results.

Much of his twin research was directed toward producing “a master race of blond, blue-eyed Aryans.”25 He injected them with a variety of chemicals to determine if different races reacted differently. He also researched the physical and psychological effects of sickness and starvation to determine if racial differences existed in response to the treatment he administered.26

OTHER MEDICAL RESEARCH

Yet another experiment was designed to understand the effects of high-altitude flight on pilots, specifically to determine the limits tolerable by humans. Nazi research scientist Dr. Rascher proposed using camp inmates to determine these limits. A witness described the tests he devised:

I have personally seen through the observation window of the decompression chamber when a prisoner inside would stand a vacuum until his lungs ruptured…. They would go mad and pull out their hair in an effort to relieve the pressure. They would tear their heads and face with their fingers and nails in an attempt to maim themselves in their madness. They would beat the walls with their hands and head and scream in an effort to relieve pressure on their eardrums. These cases usually ended in the death of the subject.27

Of the close to 200 inmates who were subjected to these “experiments,” about half died, and those who survived usually were murdered. Dr. Rascher was highly praised by the academic community for the information he gained from this research and soon had completed another research proposal—to study the limits of the extremely low temperatures that aviators experienced. One Nuremberg trial account explains the research protocol:

A prisoner was placed naked on a stretcher outside the barracks in the evening. He was covered with a sheet and every hour a bucket of cold water was poured over him. The test person lay out in the open like this into the morning. Their temperatures were taken.

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