When one thinks of their family doctor the words that come to mind usually can be seen as caring, passionate, and helpful. Most would agree that a doctor's place on this earth is to help care for people's health and well-being. This rational thought is today's prospective of a modern health provider. In the days of World War II, however, the very unfortunate saw certain doctors as Hell-bringers and Angels of Death. "The trust of a physician is sacred. This is why the practice of medicine by the doctors of the Third Reich is egregious, outrageous, and shocking. The Nazi doctors violated the trust placed in them by humanity. The most painful truth is for the most part the doctors escaped their crimes against Humanity and lived a life, unlike their victims." (Remember 1).
The victims of the horrible experimentation were selected out of the numerous prison camps and concentration camps. The Jewish, Gypsies, Homosexuals, all of their families, and whoever else the Germans saw as unworthy of life were transported in cattle cars to camps all over the German Army occupied territories. There they would be sent to do horrible, forced hard labor, put in a gas chamber and cremated, or be subjected to the atrocious medical experiments brought on by the Nazi medical doctors against their will. In .
most cases, people were sorted out when they exited the cattle cars upon arriving at the camps. They were stripped completely naked and divided into groups of men, women, and children. If there were anyone who had a different characteristic about them, they were unlucky enough to find themselves as the guinea pigs, or die Kaninchen in German, of Nazi so-called .
medical science. The SS men would search through the thousands of people to see if anyone had a mental illness, severe handicap, eyes that were two different colors, a clubbed foot, was a giant, a dwarf, hunchbacks, a twin, or any other odd physical difference.