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Sitting on an operating table, deep inside the corridors ofAzchwitz concentration camp, a man is listening to the national socialistgun fire outside. He hears the innocent screams asautomatic weapons mow through crowds of familiesdeemed "unfit to live". Gradually silence falls, only to be lowly again by the solitary pops of a pistol, finishing ofthose who did non die right off. It should be a sickeningfeeling for this man, he should feel kindle and hate, andsadness for these newest additions to the national socialist stoves. Butthis man can no longer 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 hewill go through still, he considers the others to be the luckyones. They will not boil. They will not freeze. They will notbe diseased or hacked apart. They will not have their headsexplode in a pressurised put up. They were the lu ckyones, not chosen to strike as guinea pigs to further science 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 people had been exterminated(p4 Freidman) inthe Nazis effort to "racially purify" Germany and itsterritories. It seemed intertwine the vast majority of these killingshad taken place in concentration camps, by releasingZyklon-B(p68 Guthman) in gas chambers disguised asshowers. As the assort began holding 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 revolutionary soldiers, butrespected members of the German scientificand Medicalcommunity. The German government had given the"Doctors of death" (p34, Gilbert) endless supplies ofsubjects to experiment on in any way they pleased. whatsoeverexperiments were to benefit the army. They included highaltitude tests, as well as the bodies reactions to freezingtemperatures.(p2, Net) Other experiments were called forby the nazis themselves, such as tests in genetic traits, themecontrolling 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 historied 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.