medical evolution
To some historians the Spanish civil war, in 1936, has contributed to the preparation for WWII, because in her important achievements were obtained as a more efficient way to perform blood transfusions for the wounded soldiers. Also during this conflict a medical screening system was tested to shorten the time between injury and surgical intervention.
During World War II military medicine had new principles incorporated into the practice of civil medicine. Like emergency surgery, even in front-line hospitals or rear general hospitals, which aim to reduce the healing period.
Modern medical knowledge of how the human body reacts to the freezing point for death is based almost exclusively on these Nazi experiences. This, coupled with the recent use of Nazi research data on the effects of phosgene gas, has proved to be controversial and presents an ethical dilemma for modern medicine that goes against the way these data were obtained. Similarly, controversy arose from the use of the Japanese Imperial Army's results of biological warfare in Unit 731. However, the results of Unit 731 were maintained by the United States and most of the doctors involved were pardoned.
There have also been experiments with twins in concentration camps to show similarities and differences between them in methods for combating hereditary diseases and to see how the human body can be manipulated. Running these experiments was Dr. Josef Mengele, in which he arrested about 1,500 twins.
Several times between September 1939 and April 1945, experiments were conducted in Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler, and other fields to investigate the most effective treatment of iperite wounds. People were deliberately exposed to iperite or also called mustard gas and other gases, which caused severe chemical burns. Injured victims were then tested to find the most effective treatment for mustard gas burns.
Between 1941 and 1945, Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted sterilization experiments in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, where the aim was to develop the most suitable method for sterilizing millions of people with the least possible effort. About 400,000 people are believed to have been sterilized by the Nazi government, where radiation was the most commonly used procedure.
During World War II military medicine had new principles incorporated into the practice of civil medicine. Like emergency surgery, even in front-line hospitals or rear general hospitals, which aim to reduce the healing period.
Modern medical knowledge of how the human body reacts to the freezing point for death is based almost exclusively on these Nazi experiences. This, coupled with the recent use of Nazi research data on the effects of phosgene gas, has proved to be controversial and presents an ethical dilemma for modern medicine that goes against the way these data were obtained. Similarly, controversy arose from the use of the Japanese Imperial Army's results of biological warfare in Unit 731. However, the results of Unit 731 were maintained by the United States and most of the doctors involved were pardoned.
There have also been experiments with twins in concentration camps to show similarities and differences between them in methods for combating hereditary diseases and to see how the human body can be manipulated. Running these experiments was Dr. Josef Mengele, in which he arrested about 1,500 twins.
Several times between September 1939 and April 1945, experiments were conducted in Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler, and other fields to investigate the most effective treatment of iperite wounds. People were deliberately exposed to iperite or also called mustard gas and other gases, which caused severe chemical burns. Injured victims were then tested to find the most effective treatment for mustard gas burns.
Between 1941 and 1945, Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted sterilization experiments in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, where the aim was to develop the most suitable method for sterilizing millions of people with the least possible effort. About 400,000 people are believed to have been sterilized by the Nazi government, where radiation was the most commonly used procedure.