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In addition to forced labour, the Nazis used prisoners incarcerated in camps as live test subjects for medical experiments. These experiments were usually extremely painful, debilitating , and in many cases, lethal.

The experiments had various purposes: experiments attempting to prove the supposed superiority of the ' Aryan ' race, experiments to try and find solutions to military or common war related injuries, and or experiments to further individual doctors' research interests.
Experiments attempting to prove the superiority of the 'Aryan' race
Just six months after Hitler was appointed Chancellor, on 14 July 1933 the Nazis passed their first sterilisation law, which forced people with certain hereditary conditions to be sterilised by law.

Following the mass imprisonments after the start of the Second World War, the Nazis escalated this sterilisation policy and also targeted other racial enemies such as Jews. The Nazis conducted a number of experiments on concentration camp prisoners in an effort to discover a method for mass sterilisation. These experiments primarily took place on women prisoners at Auschwitz and Ravensbrück.
Experiments to find solutions to military or common war related injuries
The start of the Second World War also led to a number of medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners in attempts to discover new, cheaper and quicker treatments for common military injuries. Some examples of these experiments include hypothermia experiments at Dachau, which attempted to discover ways to quickly reverse the effects of hypothermia . This set of experiments forced inmates to be submerged in cold water. Out of the 300 inmates involved, between 80-90 died - typically of heart failure. Other experiments at Dachau involved attempts to make seawater drinkable, in case troops were marooned with no running water, attempts to find a similar drug to penicillin , which involved infecting prisoners with sepsis , and attempts to find a cure for malaria . Almost all of these experiments resulted in a significant number of deaths or physical and mental deformities among the prisoners tested on. Prisoners were typically given little to no pain relief during experiments, and the Nazis saw their deaths as inconsequential due to their inferior status.

Dachau was not the only site of war-related medical experiments on prisoners. Experiments to find a cure for typhus also took place at Natzweiler and Buchenwald (where 154 inmates out of the 729 used died, in addition to 120 carrier patients who died whilst being used to keep the infection alive so it could be further tested). Hepatitis experiments took place at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler, and bone, muscle and nerve regeneration experiments took place at Ravensbrück.
Experiments to further individual doctors' research interests
Concentration camp inmates were also used as live test subjects in individual doctors research experiments. Perhaps the most infamous example of this was the experiments performed by Dr. Joseph Mengele on inmates of Auschwitz. Mengele was particularly interested in twins, people with different colored eyes, and people with physical impairments. Mengele did not spare any thought for the wellbeing or health of the inmates subject to his experiments, and many of them died or were purposefully killed so that their corpses could be examined.

Another example of medical experiments on inmates driven by personal interest was the Tuberculosis experiments carried out by Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer in June 1944 in Nuengamme. Heissmeyer hoped that his experiments would find a cure for tuberculosis . All of Heissmeyer's experiments failed. Despite the lack of positive results, Heissmeyer continued his experiments, and started new rounds on children in 1945. All of the inmates involved in the experiments either died as a result of them, or were murdered on Heissmeyer's orders directly afterwards.

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In addition to forced labour, the Nazis used prisoners incarcerated in camps as live test subjects for medical experiments. These experiments were usually extremely painful, debilitating , and in many cases, lethal.

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I find it interesting that Elie began to pray to God, in whom he no longer believed, because he did not want to be like the boy that abandoned his father. This is significant because it kind of shows that even though Elie does not believe in God anymore, there is still part of him that knows that God actually exists and cares about his problems.

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One of the men in the camp with Elie said that he had more faith in Hitler than anyone else because he has kept his promises to the Jews. This stood out to me because some of those prisoners were so hopeless that their only hope in this world was in the man that was trying to kill them all.

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This is a cartoon of the selection of fit and healthy prisoners in the camps that could still work hard.

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Sometimes, out of nowhere, disaster strikes and you never see it coming. Knowing how to respond to hard times is important for our physical, mental, and spiritual health.

This week, a talented young Hollywood actor lost his life in a freak car accident. A musician from my church was taken ill with a freak health condition and now lies in hospital fighting for his life. Just a few miles away, Southern California wildfires are burning up the hillsides because of a freak triple digit heat wave.

In the Old Testament, we read of Job who experiences a merciless series of consecutive calamities that strip him of his wealth, home, children, health, and influence within a matter of days. Though utterly devastated, Job cries out,
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised."
~ Job 1:21
What a perspective!
Times of Testing
I was twelve when my mother died in a freak airplane accident. I just went numb from shock and grief. A few years ago, when I was in a boating accident off Anacapa Island and nearly drowned, I felt frozen and helpless.

In 2012, when my husband was diagnosed with deadly bladder cancer and the doctors said his condition was hopeless, I could hardly breathe much less think. (He's now completely healed! You can read about our amazing deliverance at http://www.healedhealthyandhwole.com)

Do you remember how you reacted in when a crisis hit? I'm sure few of us lift praises to heaven in surrender to God's sovereign will. Most of us will experience trauma, confusion and acute distress.

Having been through these and other challenges over the years, I have developed some insights about what to do when our world suddenly gets turned upside down. I hope you find these helpful:

1. God is present. No matter how chaotic it is, remember that God is still there and keenly present. A simple "Oh, Jesus, help me!" will instantly activate heavenly resources on your behalf. You can wrestle later with why He allowed this crisis in your life, but for now, you need emergency aid!

2. Get others to start praying! Ask a Christian friend or church member who you know will mobilize others to intercede for you and your loved ones. Prayer support will sustain you, help clear the fog and give you the strength to do whatever is necessary in your situation.

3. Get enough rest. You will be impaired from making the best decisions
if you are strung out and sleep deprived. Ask your doctor for something safe to help you sleep and make sure you take it.

4. Bring a buddy. If your situation involves doctor visits, always take someone with you who is able to clearly remember the input and instructions, and write them down for you. If you absolutely must go by yourself, record the conversation on your mobile phone.

5. Ask for help. If you need assistance with transportation for your kids, with meal preparation, pet feeding, and/or the other rituals of everyday life, reach out and ask for it. This is no time to feel embarrassed or too proud. Let others help you with these daily routines until you can start coping again. Contact your church, if necessary, and tell them of your need.

You Are Not Alone
Trials may vary in intensity and circumstances, but they are part of all our lives. The Lord uses suffering to prepare us for heaven. All we can do is navigate the storms as best we can, with the help of experts, family and friends. Through it all, God assures us that He is by our side.

Author, speaker and evangelist Anne Grahm Lotz recently recounted how she came home one day and found her husband unresponsive in their pool. As the hospital staff executed emergency measures, she was flooded with God's supernatural peace that allowed her and the family to make some excruciatingly difficult life and death decisions.

Today, if you or someone you love is facing a crisis, call out to God first and then your community of helpers. Let yourself feel supported and cared for until the storm passes. We were not made to be alone, especially during the dark times. Remember, God knows and He cares.
Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you and you will honor me.

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The camp was changing Elie so much that he did not respond with any emotion toward his father getting beaten except anger, which was directed toward his father for not noticing the beating before it happened. It affected him so much in fact, that he actually wanted to run and leave his father to avoid him possibly being beaten as well.

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Something that stood out to me was that Elie was not willing to give up his shoes to ensure that he would definitely be in a Kommando with his father. Elie valued his shoes so much because they were pretty much the only things left that were actually his own.

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I was kind of shocked at the instance where Elie told how a boy was chosen for his strength to work in the crematoria and was forced to put his own father’s body into the furnace. I just began to wonder what I would do if I was in that same situation. I don’t think that I would be able to do that at all.

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Another thing that stood out to me was that they were burning babies alive in ditches and would be dumped into the ditches like trash from a truck. This is sickening to think about and most would probably say that this was wrong, but yet thousands of babies are murdered for no reason at all every single day in our world.

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I felt sorry for the Jews when they were being forced to board a train to head to the concentration camps. I just thought it was terrible how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews and forced them into cattle cars like animals and gave them minimal food supply. No human should be treated like an animal or worse because God made us in the image of Himelf, thus we are much more valuable than any animal.

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One thing that stood out to me was that Elie talked about how the people no longer looked at race or social status anymore, but were equal. This is crazy to think that when people were the most united was when they had everything taken away from them and it was just themselves. This kind of makes me a little nervous about what the future of America may look like because we may have to have much taken away to be reunited with each other as equals.