Nazi Human Experimentation:
The Ultimate LOSS of Rights
During World War II, Nazi scientists conducted unethical experiments, without consent, on concentration camp prisoners located across German occupied territories. After the war, the Nazis who were responsible were prosecuted during the Nuremberg Trials. As a result, a code of ethics was created to protect human rights experiments and the trial sparked a long-lasting debate about whether the data from the experiments should be used.
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
- Justice Robert Jackson, commenting on Nazi experimentation during the Nuremberg trials, late 1946 |
"During World War II, unspeakable crimes were committed against innocent people by the Nazis."
- Elizabeth Dyal, a student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, describing the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, Summer 2001 |
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