When you think of seawater torture, you may think of torture such as drowning or throwing yourself into the sea, but this is very different from them and difficult to think of.
We know the details of the sea water experiment thanks to a man who escaped from the camp and survived. If you are ready, let’s see when, by whom and on whom this experiment was performed.
Nazi experiments were so horrific that they were considered war crimes.
Various human experiments carried out by the Nazis during World War II involved serious human rights violations that were considered war crimes.
These experiments include various medical experiments, ill-treatment of prisoners of war and prisoners in concentration camps, sterilization practices that violate human rights, and similar unethical actions. One of these is the “sea water experiment”, which we will talk about in more detail shortly.
The doctor named Hans Eppinger was an Australian physicist and had terrible duties in concentration camps.
Eppinger was conducting horrific experiments on people in camps during World War II. The Australian doctor used Romanians, who were mostly nomads. 90% of the people used for the “sea water experiments”, which is the subject of our content, were poor Romanians.
The purpose of the experiment was to see what would happen if a person was deprived of drinking water and food and forced to survive only with sea water, and when and how he would die. You ask why? Because in wars, one of your pilots might have to experience this.
They were also looking for ways to make sea water drinkable.
For this, people were divided into groups and given water, sea water, processed sea water and unsalted sea water. Those who drank sea water soon experienced serious physical and psychological problems such as severe diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, insanity and death.
We know the details of this brutal experiment thanks to camp survivor Joseph Tschofenig. The guy witnessed the experiments with his own eyes. The victims, he said, were licking freshly wiped areas and sucking on damp cloths. Of course, they didn’t last very long.
Following World War II, leading Nazi doctors were brought to justice at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
Twenty doctors were charged with “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity”. The Nuremberg trial of doctors revealed evidence of sadistic human experiments carried out in the concentration camps of Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.
Since the Nuremberg trials, the world has had to confront the fact that Nazi doctors committed premeditated murder under the guise of research. Exactly one month before his trial on September 25, 1946, Hans Eppinger committed suicide by poisoning himself. Thus, the suffering he inflicted on people for years through cruel experiments went unpunished.
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