Nazi Doctors and their Inhuman Experiments

The Nazi regime granted doctors absolute power over life and death. Inside the concentration camps, physicians turned medicine into murder, testing deadly drugs, sterilization methods, and grotesque surgeries on helpless victims. From Auschwitz to Ravensbrück, these doctors, who once swore to save lives but became instruments of death, violated every oath of healing in pursuit of ideology, ambition, and cruelty.

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  • Himmler’s Doctor and His Experiments in Ravensbrück Camp: Karl Gebhardt

    He was Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician — a man who turned medicine into cruelty. At the Ravensbrück concentration camp, SS doctor Karl Gebhardt conducted brutal experiments on women, breaking bones, infecting wounds, and amputating limbs in the name of “science.” What began as an attempt to...

  • Nazi Doctor Who Made Camp Prisoners Drink Seawater: Wilhelm Beiglböck

    In the final years of World War II, Austrian physician Wilhelm Beiglböck, serving as a Luftwaffe doctor, carried out brutal seawater experiments at the Dachau concentration camp.
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  • The Architect of Nazi Euthanasia: Karl Brandt

    As Adolf Hitler’s personal physician and Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became one of the central figures behind Nazi Germany’s medical crimes. Convinced that some lives were “unworthy of life,” he co-led the secret T4 Euthanasia Program that gassed and starved more than 250,...

  • The Nazi Doctor Who Experimented on the Living: Fritz Fischer

    At the Ravensbrück concentration camp, SS doctor Fritz Fischer took part in some of the most horrifying medical experiments of the Nazi regime. Under the supervision of Karl Gebhardt and on orders from Heinrich Himmler, Fischer infected, mutilated, and amputated the limbs of Polish women — the so...

  • The Doctor of Death at Auschwitz & His Medical Experiments: Josef Mengele

    Known as the “Angel of Death,” Josef Mengele ruled Auschwitz’s selection ramp and carried out brutal experiments on twins, pregnant women, and children. Discover the chilling truth of the Nazi doctor who escaped justice for decades and died unpunished in Brazil.

  • Nazi Doctor Who Beat Pregnant Women & Broke Legs With a Hammer: Herta Oberheuser

    Herta Oberheuser was the only female defendant in the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial. At Ravensbrück concentration camp, she assisted in brutal medical experiments, breaking bones, infecting wounds, and killing women with lethal injections, calling it “medical help.” Once a respected physician, she bec...

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    Carl Værnet, a Danish doctor, became notorious for his Nazi-backed experiments on homosexual prisoners in Buchenwald. Obsessed with creating an “artificial sex gland,” he tested his implants on inmates, leaving death and suffering behind. This film uncovers the story of medicine twisted into crue...

  • Nazi Doctor Who Turned from Angel to Butcher: Hans Eisele

    Hans Eisele began as a camp doctor praised for kindness, but at Buchenwald he became known as the “Butcher.” He carried out brutal experiments, performed surgeries without anesthesia, ordered killings, and left a trail of corpses. Tried after the war, his sentences were reduced, and he eventually...

  • Auschwitz’s “Beast of Block 10”: Nazi Doctor Horst Schumann

    Horst Schumann, known as the “Beast of Block 10,” was one of the most sadistic Nazi doctors. From the T4 euthanasia program to Auschwitz, he experimented on men, women, and children with deadly X-ray sterilizations and brutal operations. After the war he fled to Africa, evading justice for decade...

  • Nazi Doctor Who Shot People With Poisoned Bullets: Joachim Mrugowsky

    Joachim Mrugowsky, an SS doctor, oversaw some of the most infamous human experiments of the Nazi regime. From typhus and vaccine tests at Buchenwald to poison bullet experiments at Sachsenhausen, he turned prisoners into test subjects. Tried at the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, he was convicted of wa...