Science and the Swastika — Season 1, Episode 2: The Deadly Experiment
Documentary • 49 min • 1 season, 4 episodes
Episode synopsis
Considers the work carried out by Nazi doctors in the concentration camps where they used inmates for experiments in their gynaecological and genetic research. Looks at people such as the infamous Dr Josef Mengele and his experiments with twins, mainly children, at Auschwitz, and also at Professor Clauberg who used hundreds of women in his sterilisation drug experiments. Also considers the morality and human feeling that was obliterated by ideology, ambition or lack of restriction.
About Science and the Swastika
Four-part series on science in the Third Reich and its role in Nazi ideology and crimes. Series examining science and morality during the Third Reich; the practice of eugenics and euthanasia in Nazi occupied Europe.