Between 1939 and 1945, at least 70 medical research projects involving cruel and often lethal

experimentation on human subjects were conducted in Nazi concentration camps.

These projects were carried out by established institutions within the Third Reich.

Institutions which had for years been funneling money and resources into scientifically

quote, proving Nazi racial supremacy.

Some of the other goals of these experiments was improving the survival and rescue of German

troops, testing medical procedures and pharmaceuticals, looking at you bear, but all of it was underpin

by the Nazi's belief in Aryan racial superiority and their willingness to do whatever, to whomever,

to prove it.

More than 7,000 victims of such medical experiments have been documented by historians,

and it's very likely that there were thousands of additional victims whose documentation

was destroyed or lost.

The victims were composed up of Jews, Poles, the Roma people, political prisoners, Soviet

prisoners of war, homosexuals and Catholic priests, all were tested on, many died.

If you're forced to go to a concentration camp, if you didn't get immediately selected

for death in the gas chambers and by some miracle, survive days of hard labor and unsanitary

conditions while literally starving, there was a possibility you would end up in a lab

being poked and prodded by white coats who truly saw you as nothing more than a lab

rat that just kind of happened to look human.

One of the worst of these white coats, arguably the worst, was Joseph Mengele.

Since he started medical school, Mengele had been immersed in a world where science wasn't

actually science.

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