Medical Experiments In The Holocaust
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Doctors have always been thought of as the saviors of mankind, the healers and caretakers of our utter existence. The trust of a physician is sacred. This is why the practice of medicine by the doctors of the Third Reich is outrageous and shocking. The Nazi doctors violated the trust placed in the ....
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.... violated moral law; (2) experiments whose very purposes violated medical ethics and which were irreconcilable with the accepted norms of medical research (Gutman 958). The aim of such research was strictly for Nazis to pursue their desire to engineer the perfect Aryan race of blond hair and blue eyes. Nazis justified experimentation on concentration camps inmates, with the rationalization that these individuals were already destined to die (Dodd).
Birkenau housed the bulk of the so- ....
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