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28 December 1942 | Prof. Carl Clauberg began his experiments on female prisoners at Auschwitz to develop a non-surgical mass sterilization method.
He made sure that the Fallopian tubes were open & introduced a specially prepared chemical irritant, which caused acute inflammation. This led to the growing together of the tubes & their obstruction.
Medical experiments at Auschwitz:
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-part--5-Criminal-pseudo-medical-experiments-in-Auschwitz-e14484p
#Auschwitz #medicine #experiments #history #ww2 #sterilization #doctor @histodons
Carl Clauberg made these procedures in a brutal way. Complications were frequent, including peritonitis and hemorrhages from the reproductive tract, leading to high fever and sepsis. Multiple organ failure and death frequently followed.
While some of Carl Clauberg’s Jewish female patients died in this way, others were deliberately put to death so that autopsies could be carried out.
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Before the Soviet Army approached Auschwitz Clauberg moved to KL Ravensbrück to continue his experiments. Soviet troops captured him there in 1945. In 1948 Clauberg was put on trial in the Soviet Union & was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
In 1955, he was released (but not pardoned) with a group of about 10,000 POWs and civilian internees. He returned to West Germany, where he was reinstated at his former clinic based on his prewar scientific output.
In 1955, after public outcry from groups of survivors, Carl Clauberg was arrested and put on trial. He died before trial on August 9, 1957.
In the virtual visit of the Auschwitz Memorial, you can look inside Block 10 at Auschwitz I, where Carl Clauberg did some of his experiments: http://panorama.auschwitz.org/tour1,2917,en.html
This online lesson takes a closer look at the story of different medical experiments conducted at the Auschwitz camp, including mass sterilization of men and women, heredity research by Dr. Josef Mengele, and the effects of the starvation disease, and the testing of new drugs: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_medycyna_en/
@auschwitzmuseum This is what I was hoping you would talk about. The Wirtz family, who founded Chemie-Grunenthal, reportedly has a very dark association with the Holocaust. https://www.newsweek.com/nazis-and-thalidomide-worst-drug-scandal-all-time-64655
It is surely haunted. I get a strange feeling.
@auschwitzmuseum
How on earth was that man reinstated after what he had done, holy cow. So glad the public spoke up and I'm sorry he died before the trial and not after
@auschwitzmuseum unbelievable. That the Germans had to be shamed into holding him to account. That he escaped justice.
