Experiments
Twins
Josef Mengele was a physician and a SS officer at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, he was very interested in the experimentation of twins. Mengele was particular in the studying of twins, because he wanted to figure out a way to make more German people have twins and therefore increase the German population quicker. Many of the twins that Mengele experimented with were housed in separate barracks than other prisoners. These twin barracks were well kept and Mengele often fed the twins more than other prisoners. Some of Mengele's experiments included separating the twins and amputating one twin or infecting one twin with disease. The purpose of this was to see if the other twin would feel the pain or get affected the same way. Often during these experiments the twin being tested would die, Mengele would then kill the other twin as well. Mengele killed and experimented on about 1,500 sets of twins throughout the Holocaust.
Another brutal experiment on twins, however not performed by Mengele, was the sewing together of twins to forcefully make them conjoined twins.
Another brutal experiment on twins, however not performed by Mengele, was the sewing together of twins to forcefully make them conjoined twins.
Seawater
At the Dachau Concentration Camp, about 90 Gypsy prisoners were forced to have a strictly seawater diet. The Gypsies were quickly dehydrated and in a great amount of pain. The Gypsies under the experiment became so thirsty and desperate the licked floors after they were mopped in order to get the slightest amount of water.