The Military, Pharmaceuticals, and Racial Experiments
The Nazi medical experiments can be categorized into three parts: military, pharmaceutical, and racial related "studies". The first category, military, included experiments to make sea water potable. Doctors wanted to discover a way to make seawater drinkable, but they never succeed. Instead, many patents died because of severe hydration. Medical doctors would dehydrate a subject, and observe the different stages the body goes through when dehydrated. Other medical experiments were freezing and altitude tests. (see page Josef Mengele)
The second type of medical experiments were pharmaceuticals. These experiments were targeted towards finding cures to the diseases and injuries that German solders in the field commonly became effected with. The doctors tested subjects for cures for communicable diseases. These communicable diseases include typhus, malaria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, infectiousness hepatitis, and yellow fever. The disease would be injected into a patient's body, and they would be observed or immediately killed for an autopsy. Many of the patients would die from these experiments. Out of about 1,000 people who were in the malaria prevention clinic, over half died.
The last type of medical experiments that took place can be called racial and ideological experiments. These experiments were performed mainly to support the Third Reich, (the Third Reich was the German Nazi party) and their vision of a perfect race. Chemicals would be injected into a victim's eyes in attempt to change the color of the iris to blue, which was the color of the Aryan Race which the Third Reich promoted. In addition, different disease experiments were claimed to be preformed in order to discover how different "races" responded to communicable diseases.
The second type of medical experiments were pharmaceuticals. These experiments were targeted towards finding cures to the diseases and injuries that German solders in the field commonly became effected with. The doctors tested subjects for cures for communicable diseases. These communicable diseases include typhus, malaria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, infectiousness hepatitis, and yellow fever. The disease would be injected into a patient's body, and they would be observed or immediately killed for an autopsy. Many of the patients would die from these experiments. Out of about 1,000 people who were in the malaria prevention clinic, over half died.
The last type of medical experiments that took place can be called racial and ideological experiments. These experiments were performed mainly to support the Third Reich, (the Third Reich was the German Nazi party) and their vision of a perfect race. Chemicals would be injected into a victim's eyes in attempt to change the color of the iris to blue, which was the color of the Aryan Race which the Third Reich promoted. In addition, different disease experiments were claimed to be preformed in order to discover how different "races" responded to communicable diseases.