Experiments on concentration camp prisoners involving effects of altitude

[Cantankerous]

I read something in high school about Nazi concentration camp guards testing the effects of altitude on concentration camp prisoners. Does anyone have more info on Nazi experiments on concentration camp inmates involving the effects of altitude?

[TheSearchers]

I read something in high school about Nazi concentration camp guards testing the effects of altitude on concentration camp prisoners. Does anyone have more info on Nazi experiments on concentration camp inmates involving the effects of altitude?

Check it out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_huma ... xperiments
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781585444397/page/94
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Interesting aspects:
"With Himmler’s permission, the Wehrmacht ordered human experiments in which their own medical specialists cooperated with the SS. An excellent example of this polarity is Rascher, who operated both as a Luftwaffe officer and SS man, and cooperated with Dr. med. Hans Wolfgang Romberg (1911-1981) from the Institute for Aviation Medicine. The Wehrmacht not only ordered the high altitude experiments, but also the hypothermia experiments, in which Rascher also cooperated with physicians of the Luftwaffe." (p. 72)

"Rascher initially tried to write a Habilitation based on the research of the high altitude experiment. He asked for Himmler’s support to get the decompression cabin back to Dachau. However, the rector of the University of Munich declined the Habilitation because of the gruesome character of the research." (p. 92)

"Although the Nazi doctors had no ethical and moral constraints towards executing human experiments, this does not mean that every German physician approved it. Holzlöhner executed the hypothermia experiments together with Rascher, but finally withdrew because he disapproved of the involuntarily use of prisoners. The members of the Luftwaffe also disapproved of Rascher’s lethal high altitude experiments and did not want to put the pressure cabin at his disposal any longer. However, the group of people that ethically objected the human experiments was only a small minority." (p. 119)

Source: https://www.niod.nl/sites/niod.nl/files ... manity.pdf
"In the Name of Humanity - Nazi Doctors and Human Experiments in German Concentration Camps, 1939-1945"
Daan de Leeuw
University of Amsterdam, Department of History
Master’s Thesis in History

[TheSearchers]

Just came across this document, but it is all in German language:
http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte ... _04_28.pdf

"Wolfgang Lutz:
Die höhenphysiologischen Experimente im Konzentrationslager Dachau 1942 und deren Auswirkungen auf seine Biographie“
vorgelegt von Neumann, Andrea, Ebert aus Halle/Saale
Gießen (2013)

It is rather detailed. Can you read German yourself? Or is there anything in particular that you would like to learn about? Then I will search the document for that and run the result through Google translate.