Human Experimentation at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Human Experimentation at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp... Read story Ravensbruck, Germany. Scars on a leg of a woman after medical experimentation. experiments" was to treat war injuries. The experimentation consisted of breaking bones and transplants of the bone, muscle and nerves. During the medical experimentation prisoners legs were broken, whole bones and tissue were removed and sent for transplants for SS patients. These photographs were used as evidence in the Medical Trials that were held in Nuremberg from October 25, 1946 to August 20, 1947.... Read story A report on the fourth post-war Ravensbrück Concentration Camp trial, written by Deputy Judge Advocate Halse in 1948, stated that medical experiments were performed at the camp ‘in the most brutal manner by doctors who were apparently stationed there for the purpose of experimenting on human guinea pigs.’ These human experiments occurred at Ravensbrück from August 1942 onwards. In total, 74 women were subject to su...