In 1947, there were 23 doctors in the dock at Nuremberg. They were tried for turning medical science into a monster that obeyed the interests of the Third Reich.
January 30, 1933, Berlin. Professor Blots Clinic. An ordinary medical institution, which is sometimes called the “devil's clinic” by competing doctors. Medical colleagues do not like Alfred Blots, but they still listen to his opinion. It is known in the scientific community - he was the first to study the effect of poisonous gases on the human genetic system. But Blots did not release the results of his research. On January 30, Alfred Blots sent a congratulatory telegram to the new chancellor of Germany, in which he proposed a program of new research in the field of genetics. He received the answer: “Your research is of interest to Germany. They must be continued. Adolf Gitler.
What is eugenics?
In the 1920s, Alfred Blots travels the country giving lectures on what "eugenics" is. He considers himself the founder of a new science, his main idea is "the racial purity of the nation." Some call it a struggle for a healthy lifestyle. Blots argues that the human future can be modeled at the genetic level, in the womb, and this will happen at the end of the 20th century. They listened to him and were surprised, but no one called him "doctor devil." Yudin Boris Grigorievich, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences claims that "eugenics is called a science (although it can hardly be called a science"), which deals with the genetic improvement of a person."
In 1933, Hitler put his trust in German geneticists. They promised the Fuhrer that within 20-40 years they would raise a new person, aggressive and obedient to the authorities. The conversation was about cyborgs, biological soldiers of the Third Reich. Hitler was fired up by this idea.
During one of Blots's lectures in Munich, a scandal erupted. When asked what the doctor proposes to do with the sick, Blots replied "sterilize or kill," and that this is precisely the purpose of eugenics. After that, the lecturer was booed, and the term "eugenics" appeared on the pages of newspapers.
In the mid-30s, a new symbol of Germany appeared, the glass woman. This symbol was even shown at the World Exhibition in Paris. Eugenics was not invented by Hitler, but by doctors. They wanted well for the German people, and it all ended in concentration camps and experiments on people. It all started with a glass woman.
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Boris Yudin claims that doctors "incited" German leaders to Nazism. At a time when the term did not yet exist, they began to engage in eugenics, which in Germany was called racial hygiene. Then, when Hitler and his entourage came to power, it became clear that the idea of racial hygiene could be sold. From the book of Professor Burle, "Science and the Swastika": "After Hitler came to power, the Fuhrer actively supported the development of German medicine and biology. Research funding increased tenfold, and doctors were declared an elite. In the Nazi state, this profession was considered the most important, since its representatives were to be responsible for the purity of the German race."
Human Hygiene
Dresden, Museum of Human Hygiene This scientific institution was under the personal patronage of Hitler and Himmler. The main task of the museum is mass promotion of healthy lifestyle. It was in the Museum of Human Hygiene that the terrible plan of sterilization of the population was developed, which Hitler supported. Hitler insisted that only healthy Germans had children, so the German people would ensure the "millennial existence of the Third Reich." Those who suffer from mental illness and physical disabilities should not make their offspring suffer. This speech was related not so much to individuals as to entire nations.
In Hitler's hands, eugenics became the science of racial killing. And the first victims of eugenics were the Jews, because in Germany they were declared an "unclean race." According to Hitler, the ideal German race should not have “polluted” the blood by mingling with Jews. This idea was supported by the doctors of the Third Reich.
Eugenic professors have developed laws of racial purity. According to the laws, Jews were not allowed to work in schools, government agencies, and teach at universities. And first of all, according to the doctors, it was necessary to clear the scientific and medical ranks of Jews. Science was becoming an elite closed society.
In the mid-1920s, Germany had the most advanced science. All scientists and doctors who worked in the field of genetics, biology, obstetrics and gynecology considered it prestigious to undergo an internship in Germany. Then a third of the doctors were Jewish, but after a great purge in 1933-1935, German medicine became completely Aryan. Himmler actively recruited doctors to the SS, and many joined because they were supporters of the Nazi idea.
According to Blots, the world was originally divided into "healthy" and "unhealthy" peoples. This is confirmed by data from genetic and medical research. The mission of eugenics is to save humanity from disease and self-destruction. According to German scientists, Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, Chinese, Negroes are nations with an inadequate psyche, weak immunity, and an increased ability to transmit diseases. The salvation of a nation lies in the sterilization of some peoples and the controlled birth rate of others.
In the mid-30s, a secret facility was located on a small estate near Berlin. This is the medical school of the Fuhrer, its activities are patronized by Rudolf Hes, Hitler's deputy. Every year, medical workers, obstetricians and doctors gathered here. You couldn't come to school of your own free will. The students were selected by the Nazis, the party. SS doctors selected cadres who took advanced training courses in medical school. This school trained doctors to work in concentration camps, but at first these personnel were used for a sterilization program in the second half of the 30s.
In 1937, Karl Brunt became the official boss of German medicine. This person is responsible for the health of the Germans. According to the sterilization program, Karl Brant and his subordinates could use euthanasia to get rid of mentally ill people, disabled people and children with disabilities. Thus, the Third Reich got rid of "extra mouths", because military policy does not imply the presence of social support. Brant fulfilled his task - before the war the German nation was cleansed of psychopaths, invalids and freaks. Then more than 100 thousand adults were killed, and gas chambers were used for the first time.
Division T-4
September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Fuhrer clearly expressed his attitude to the Poles: “The Poles must be slaves of the Third Reich, because at the moment the Russians are out of our reach. But not a single person capable of running this country should stay alive. " From 1939, Nazi doctors would begin to work with the so-called "Slavic material". The death factories began their work, only in Auschwitz there were one and a half million people. According to the plan, 75-90% of applicants were to immediately fall into the gas chambers, and the remaining 10% of people were to become material for monstrous medical experiments. The blood of children was used to treat German soldiers in military hospitals. According to the historian Zalessky, the blood sampling rate was extremely high, sometimes even all the blood was taken. Medical personnel from the T-4 unit developed new methods of selecting people for destruction.
The experiments at Auschwitz were led by Joseph Mengel. The prisoners nicknamed him "the angel of death." Tens of thousands of people became victims of his experiments. He had a laboratory and dozens of professors and doctors who selected children and twins. The twins received blood transfusions and organ transplants from each other. The sisters were forced to bear children from brothers. Forced sex reassignment operations were performed. There have been attempts to change the color of a child's eyes by injecting various chemicals into the eyes, amputating organs, and trying to stitch the children together. Of the 3 thousand twins who got to Mengele, only three hundred survived. His name has become a household name for a killer doctor. He anatomized living babies, tested women with high voltage shocks to determine the limit of endurance. But that was just the tip of the killer doctor iceberg. Other groups of doctors conducted experiments with low temperatures: how low a degree a person can withstand. What is the most effective way to supercool a person, and in what way you can reanimate him. Experienced the effect of phosgene and mustard gas on the human body. They found out how long a person can drink seawater, performed bone transplantation. They were looking for a means that made it possible to accelerate or slow down a person's growth. Were treated gay men. Were treated gay men. Were treated gay men.
With the outbreak of hostilities on the military front, hospitals were overflowing with wounded German soldiers, and their treatment requires new techniques. Therefore, they began a new series of experiments on prisoners, causing them wounds similar to those of German soldiers. Then they were treated in different ways, finding out which methods are effective. Shrapnel fragments were injected in order to find out the stages at which operations were needed. Everything was done without anesthesia, and tissue contamination resulted in the amputation of the prisoner's limbs.
To find out what danger threatens the pilot when the cockpit is depressurized at high altitude, the Nazis put the prisoners in a chamber with low pressure and recorded the body's reaction. Experiments were carried out on the use of euthanasia, sterilization, and the development of infectious diseases such as hepatitis, typhus and malaria were checked. Infected - cured - reinfected until the person died. They experimented with poisons, adding their food to prisoners or shooting them with poisonous bullets.
These experiments were carried out not by sadists, but by professional doctors from the special unit of the SS T-4. By 1944, the monstrous experiments became known in America. This caused unconditional condemnation, but the results of the experiments were of interest to the special services, military departments, and some scientists. That is why the Nuremberg trial of the murderers ended only in 1948, and by that time the case materials had disappeared without a trace, or ended up in US scientific centers, including materials on "Practical Medicine of the Third Reich."