Bad Medicine: Nazi Medical Experiment

Killing For The Greater Good

While reading about the horrors commited to so many inocent prisoners brought by the hands of the Nazi doctors one of the more appealing aspects I thought was the doctors excues for doing such awful harm to their patients. At the Nuremburg trials it seemed incredibly common for the Nazi doctors to proclaim that they were simply faling the orders of a higher power for their reasoning on going through with tests they knew would most likely kill the patient. I find this hard to believe as in the case of  Dr. Sigmund Rascher, who acted like he hated that he had to kill people but was so addament to begin with about needing many volunteers that he even said would most likely die. This would be different if the test he was commpleting were not "Terminal", in that there own goal was to kill the patient to gather information. It's als interesting to me how Dr. Rascher asked to be moved to a concentration camp instead of his office to allow him more patients and yet he still claimed the Nazi party made him perform these acts. While it is true that the Nazi party did find this information interesting it was Dr. Rascher who brought it to them in the first place. I think this whole situation of Nazi doctors running mad with power is just somthing to be exspected when you tell certain doctors who are so obssesed with finding an anwser that there is no rules they have to abide by you see the worst they have to offer.

Its not just the germans though that did terrible things but also suprisingly te U.S.A. When i first read that the U.S Navy did to its members it was a major shock to me since my grandpa served in the navy during this time. I feel that this may even be worse then what the Nazi did because, the government was hurting its own, not to say hurting someone else is anybetter but it goes to show the lack of care of its people during this time. Also the fact that they waited almost fifty years to release this information to the public goes to show they knew what they did was wrong. The fact that are government was willing to hurt its own to win a war was honestly in my opinion the scarriest thing I read in this book, and it makes you think what if this were to happen again?

Devon Wright