Block 10Memorial plaque at the Institute of Anatomy in Strasbourg. Translated, it reads, in part: "In memory of 86 Jews murdered in 1943 atStruthof byAugust Hirt, professor at the NaziReichsuniversität in Strasbourg. Their remains rest in the Jewish cemetery in Cronenbourg....Remember them so that medicine shall never again be misguided."
Although Block 10 was in Auschwitz I, a part of the camp mainly used for male political prisoners, the experiments conducted were mostly on women. The main doctors who worked in Block 10 wereCarl Clauberg,Horst Schumann,Eduard Wirths,Bruno Weber andAugust Hirt. Each of them had different methods in doing experiments on the inmates.
The prisoners at Auschwitz were also deported to other sites where experimental subjects were needed. For example, twenty Jewish children were transported to theNeuengamme concentration camp inHamburg where they were injected with virulent tubercular serum and subjected to other experiments, and later murdered at theBullenhuser Damm school.[citation needed]
Carl Clauberg[1] — He focused on sterilization by injection. His method was to inject a caustic substance into thecervix in order to obstruct thefallopian tubes. Subjects died during the sterilization whilst others experienced severe pain and infection. His experimental subjects were married women between the ages of twenty and forty who had already had children.[2]
Horst Schumann — His experimental subjects were healthy men and women in their late teens or early twenties, on whom he attemptedX-ray sterilization. Victims experienced radiation burns and suppuration upon exposure. The body parts that were affected, mainly the ovaries and testicles, were then surgically removed for examination.[3]
Eduard Wirths — He focused on the pre-cancerous growth of cervixes, where he frequently photographed cervixes of female prisoners without their consent, amputated them and sent both the photographs and specimen to Dr. Hinselmann. In addition, he sterilized many women by subjecting their ovaries to radiation or surgical removal. He also promotedJosef Mengele in August 1944.
Bruno Weber — He tested the compatibility of blood types by bleeding prisoners and injecting them with other blood groups. He also experimented onbarbiturates andmorphine derivatives for mind control purposes.
August Hirt — He was responsible for organizing aJewish skull collection from 86 prisoners, to prove their "racial inferiority". He also tested mustard gas on prisoners.
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^Couderc, Frédéric (2024).Hors d'atteinte, a book by Frédéric Couderc published by Les Escales and Pocket (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris: Pocket.ISBN9782266336499.
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