LIJEČENJE I MEDICINSKI POKUSI U KONCENTRACIJSKOM LOGORU DACHAU
MEDICAL TREATMENT AND MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP DACHAU

Summary/Abstract: During the Third Reich many German physicians supported the Nazis. Physicians took part in torture and killing of the enemies of the Nazi regime. Killing of the mentally disabled persons was a common practice. Concentration camps internees were used for medical experiments and were often tortured to death in process. The aim of the experiments was to improve the medical treatment of the German soldiers and to help them survive at the battlefield. But the results of the experiments were either well-known or totally useless. In the concentration camps ill or injured internees were not medically treated. Either they recovered on their own or they died. Hygienic conditions in the camps were deplorable. Water was scarce and unclean, lice and fleas infested the crowded barracks and thousands of people died of typhus or other infections without receiving any medical help. No matter, how tired, weak or ill internees were, they had to hide it they wanted to survive.

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