August Hirt Medical Experiments

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In 1942, SS-Hauptsturmführer August Hirt, a professor and head of the department of anatomy at the Reich University in Strasbourg, set about assembling a collection of …

August Hirt - Wikipedia

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Remains of Jewish victims of Nazi medical …

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Researcher uncovers test tubes at Strasbourg medical school containing human samples of Holocaust …

August Hirt: Deadly Collector of the Victims …

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Little is known of the life of August Hirt prior to his involvement with the Ahnenerbe leading up to and during World War II, but due to his role in several radical medical …

New French film raises ghosts of Nazi …

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SS doctor August Hirt (Courtesy) PARIS, France (AFP) — A new documentary about the scale of Nazi medical experiments has reopened old wounds in …

Remains of Holocaust experiment victims …

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In 1942, he set in motion a scientific study at the Anatomical Institute of Reich University in Strasbourg to try to prove Jews were an inferior race. Anthropologists …

Nazi Torture Doctor's 'Jewish Skeleton …

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Hirt's "Jewish skeleton collection" was part of his attempt to prove the Nazi party's racial ideology, which held that Jewish people were an inferior race. Hirt's …

Background & Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments

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His first experiments were performed on Gypsy (Roma) (Roma) children supplied to him from the so-called kindergarten. Before long he broadened his interest to twins, dwarfs, …

Nazi Medical Experiments | Holocaust …

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Experiments centered around three topics: survival of military personnel, testing of drugs and treatments, and the advancement of Nazi racial and ideological goals. …

Nazi Medical Experimentation at Auschwitz-Birkenau

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In the first phase of his experiments, Mengele subjected pairs of twins and people with physical handicaps to special medical examinations that could be carried out on the living …