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Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration camps

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Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration camps

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Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration camps book

Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration camps

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Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration camps book

ByAstrid Ley
BookFrom Clinic to Concentration Camp

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
Imprint Routledge
Pages 13
eBook ISBN 9781315583310

ABSTRACT

The 11 young boys, whose arrival so shocked the prisoners of Sachsenhausen, had been earmarked for medical experiments to identify the pathogens of hepatitis. There had been human experiments on prisoners in nearly all concentration camps since the beginning of the war. Initially exclusively grown men were used as test subjects for such experiments, primarily Polish, Jewish, Soviet and German concentration camp inmates. Experiments with concentration camp prisoners began immediately after the beginning of the war in the autumn of 1939. When determining test subjects for a research project, the interests of two parties were affected: those of the experimenting physicians and those of the concentration camp command on site. The physicians were interested in obtaining healthy prisoners in a sound state of nutrition, so that their test results would not be influenced by sickness or weaknesses. This chapter describes the experiments of the three physicians on children, with main emphasis on Dr. Arnold Dohmen's experiments in Sachsenhausen.

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