Horrors of German concentration camps

THE Nazis carried out grotesque medical experiments in concentration camps during the Second World War.

They included studies in which prisoners were forced into chambers that duplicated altitude conditions of up to 68,000ft. Others included the removal of sections of bone, muscle and nerves, including whole legs removed at the hips to transplant to other victims.

Studies of hypothermia treatment involved prisoners standing naked in temperatures as low as -6C (21F) for hours.

Josef Mengele spent hours examining twins at Auschwitz in an effort to find ways to more effectively multiply the German race. In many cases, he injected one twin with a mysterious substance and monitored the illness that ensued. Mengele, nicknamed the ‘Angel of Death’ also applied painful clamps to children’s limbs to induce gangrene, injected dye into their eyes, and gave them spinal taps.