Death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. Just imagine watching the people around you waste away, from glittering souls to bedraggled bodies until they are nothing but ashes, scattered in the cursed breath of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel was spared death but his story shows that there was brutal treatment of Jews in the concentration camps. They stripped people of their souls until they were nothing but walking corpses. While Elie experienced many horrors, history shows that there were others, perhaps even more tragic.
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Camp Doctors
When you hear the word, "doctor", what do you think of? Someone that saves lives? Or someone that helps you when your health has deteriorated? Or both? Well, it is an obvious fact that these camp doctors have stained the name forevermore. They threw away the normal morals of medical practitioners.. Their hearts were cold and empty of compassion for humans and the beauty of a life.
A prime example: Dr. Sigmund Rascherat. This is the man that took many lives by freezing and burning people to death. He put them in freezing tubs or outside, naked, in subzero temperatures. He placed them under sun lamps so hot their skin began burning
until they died. In another cringe-worthy example, he had scalding hot water irrigated into the stomach. bladder, as well as the intestines. All victims that went through this experiment died.
Most can agree that these doctors were evil to the point of corruption. They must have been so blinded by the lies that Hitler had drilled into their souls to ever believe that what they did was okay. But why? What good, valid reason could these doctors have for doing this? Elie Wiesel once stated, "My whole life, my whole work, has been devoted to questions, not to answers.". Maybe the question is more important than they answer.
Experiments on Twins
This is some infuriating, anger-inspiring information you are about to encounter. But first, an important inquiry. Are you a twin? Doctors also experimented on twins
"...it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke..." -Night by Elie Wiesel. Pictured above is a crematorium.
Holocaust Torture: What really happened
By: M. D.
2 Change/Winter 2014-15