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Sitting on an operating table, deep at heart the corridors ofAzchwitz concentration camp, a man is listening to the Nazigun send a demeanor outside. He hears the innocent screams asautomatic weapons mow through crowds of familiesdeemed " speculative to live". Gradually silence falls, only to bebroken over again by the solitary pops of a pistol, finishing ofthose who did non die proficient off. It should be a sickeningfeeling for this man, he should feel irritability and hate, andsadness for these newest additions to the Nazi stoves. Butthis man can no interminable feel such sadness, such grief.Instead he feels only jealousy, jealousy for those who haddied quickly, with a bullet to the brain or the heart. Nodoubt, considering what hes been through, and what he testament go through still, he considers the others to be the palmyones. They will not boil. They will not freeze. They will notbe diseased or hacked apart. They will not have their headsexplode in a pressurised chamber. They were the luckyones, not chosen to act as guinea pigs to further scientific discipline bydying a slow painful death at the hands of the mostgruesome members of the Nazi party, the "Nazi Doctors".When World war two ended in 1945, over eleventhousand citizenry had been exterminated(p4 Freidman) inthe Nazis effort to "racially purify" Germany and itsterritories. It seemed tat the vast mass of these killingshad taken place in concentration camps, by releasingZyklon-B(p68 Guthman) in gas chambers disguised asshowers. As the allies began dimension the first war criminaltrials, however, it was quickly seen that a secret, genocidefar more hideous than was previously suspected, had takenplace. Worse still, the killers were not bag soldiers, butrespected members of the German scientificand Medicalcommunity. The German government had given over the"Doctors of death" (p34, Gilbert) endless supplies ofsubjects to experiment on in any way they pleased . Someexperiments were to benefit the army. They included exaltedaltitude tests, as salutary as the bodies reactions to freezingtemperatures.(p2, Net) Other experiments were called forby the nazis themselves, such as tests in genetic traits, mindcontrolling drugs and mass sterilization.(p3-5, Net) Therewere medicine tests and more commonly, tests usingdiseases without any known cures. The most gruesometests however, were fabricated in the twisted minds of thedoctors themselves and are famous for their void of anypurposes at all. The high altitude tests were experimentsinitiated by the nazi government and followed closely byHeinrich Himmler.(p36, Gilbert) The experiments wereconducted in a low pressure chamber that could simulateflight up to 68,000 feet above sea level.