In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

High-Altitude Studies. Nazi SS Doctor Sigmund Rascher devised one of the most murderous experiments. He and members of the Luftwaffe Medical Service placed more than 200 inmates of the Dachau ...

10 Most Shocking Nazi Experiments. 5. High Altitude Chamber During the year of 1942, victims at the Dachau concentration camp were subjected to experiments that were designed to test the absolute ...

Their “medical” experiments punctuate Nazi Germany’s cruel, ... Simulated high-altitude experiments using decompression chambers were conducted to find the cause of high-altitude illness in ...

Rascher used about 300 prisoners in his freezing experiments of whom about 90 died and of 200 prisoners tested in high-altitude testing, 80 died and the rest were executed.

Their “medical” experiments punctuate Nazi Germany’s cruel, ... Simulated high-altitude experiments using decompression chambers were conducted to find the cause of high-altitude illness in ...

Twenty Nazi physicians and three administrators were ... including freezing prisoners in ice water and subjecting them to simulated high-altitude experiments. Other Nazi experiments included ...

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.