Name: Trey Felts
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Holocaust Research Packet

Topic: The Medical Experiments and the Doctors of the Holocaust
Research Question: How did the medical experiments and the doctors of the
Holocaust help contribute to survival of Germany’s soldiers?
Little Question 1: How were the experiments conducted?

Database Research Notes:
● Experiments on the healthy and unhealthy
● Stomach, gall bladder, spleen, and throat
● Many people died from Malaria and its experiments
● Air pressure
● Removal of the skin

MLA Citation:Dr Franz Blaha. "Dachau: The Medical Experiments, 1941–5." Gale World History

in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Student Resources in Context. Web. 6 May 2014.

Research Notes:
● Mustard Gas experiments
● Sulfanilamide experiments
● Typhon experiments

● Poison experiments
● Incendiary bomb experiments

MLA Citation:
Epstein, Hedy. "The Nazi Doctors." The Nazi Doctors. U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museums, Jan.­Feb. 2010. Web. 07 May 2014.

Research Notes:
● many subjects killed just to be autopsied
● no painkillers
● SS docs inflicted disease, caused agony, and committed murder instead of saving lives
● Doctors played the most horrifying role of all in the war
● More efficient body­burning
● decided when to release Zyklon B (GAS) in the gas chambers on the victims MLA Citation:Feldman, George. Understanding the Holocaust. Detroit, MI: U X L, 1998.
Print.

Now that you have completed your research, write a running thesis. This should answer your question.

The medical experiments and the doctors of the Holocaust helped to contribute to the survival of Germany’s soldiers by testing on prisoners to see if the country’s soldiers could survive in specific conditions.

Topic: The Medical Experiments and the Doctors of the Holocaust
Research Question: How did the medical experiments and the doctors of the
Holocaust help contribute to survival of Germany’s soldiers?
Little Question 2: What effect did the experiments have on Germany’s soldiers?

Database Research Notes:
● collected skins
● collected teeth
● know where they can survive in what temp. and how high

● human gloves, handbags, saddles, riding breeches, and house slippers
● know how to treat soldiers by experimenting on the prisoners

MLA Citation:Dr Franz Blaha. "Dachau: The Medical Experiments, 1941–5." Gale World History

in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Student Resources in