Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz were often subjected to cruel experimentation. SS doctors took advantage of the fact that they had so many subjects, who had to follow orders and could not refuse to be experimented on. Women were given large doses of X-rays to test the X-rays as a sterilization device. Additionally, prisoners were deliberately infected with spotted fever for vaccination research and exposed to toxic substances to study the effects. Professor Dr. Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women’s uteruses to glue them shut. Josef Mengele, who was often referred to as the “Angel of Death,” was famous for his experiments on identical twins and dwarfs, his particular interests. In his studies, he would induce diseases into one twin and kill the other when the first died, so that he could compare their autopsies. Also, he injected Noma, a deadly and painful mouth and genitalia ulceration, into twins and dwarfs. Another man, Kurt Heissmeyer, took twenty Jewish children from Auschwitz to use in pseudoscientific medical experiments at the Neuengamme concentration camp. In April 1945, he killed the children by hanging them to conceal his project.
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