Many medical experiments were conducted during the Holocaust, especially in concentration camps. These subjects included Jews, gypsies, twins, and political prisoners. The experiments included that many of these people never survived, many were killed for further examination. The Jewish people endured the full fury of injections, inhumane surgeries, and other experiments. Twins were also desirable in these experiments to show a controlled group. The gypsies and political prisoners were experimented on because they were there at the disposal of the Germans. Thousands of people died in these horrific experiments. These experiments were performed to demonstrate how the Jewish race was inferior to the Aryan race. Many of the subjects were twins, mostly identical. Twins during the worst of surgeries, including blood transfusions. Doctors took blood from one twin and injected it into the other twin to see what would happen. Blood was taken from each twin in large quantities, about ten cubic centimeters were taken per day. The twins who were very young had the worst blood draw. They would be forced to have blood taken from their necks, a very painful method. Other methods included fingers for smaller amounts and arms sometimes by both at the same time. Doctors sometimes saw how much they could withdraw until the patient fainted or died. Another form of deadly experimentation was the injections of diseases and chemicals. Doctors injected deadly diseases, including: Typus, Noma, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Typhoid Fever and Hepatitis. Tuberculosis was the focus of the experiments, one twin would be injected with the live Tubercle Bacillus virus. The reason for this experiment was to find a cure to help the... handicapped. Only a handful of people survived the horrors the Germans performed on them, leaving them physically, mentally and emotionally scarred. Many people have never revealed that they have been subjected to heinous experiments and have kept it a secret their entire lives. Some positives came from the results of the experiments, which revealed some important knowledge about human anatomy and how some bodily functions are essential for our survival. Information about some diseases helped spur research into cures later in the decade. The horrific experiments conducted during the Holocaust were terrible and served a purpose. The freedom doctors had to explore the extraordinary human body led to information that may still be unknown to modern science. Works Cited http://www.auschwitz.dk/ mengele.htmhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060