In World War II, Nazi doctors experimented on many prisoners. The experiments were broken up into three different categories.
The first category was aimed for the survival of Axis military personnel. They used prisoners to see from how high a person could parachute from a plane. They also did experiments for hypothermia cures.
The second category was aimed for pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injured soldiers. They were finding cures for different contagious diseases.
The third was for the spread of the Nazi world view. This included experiments on twins and Roma to see how different races withstood different diseases.
There are other experiments that were aimed for the advancement of racial goals. One was to find an inexpensive way to sterilize Jews, Roma, and other races that the Nazis saw a undesirable.
"Nazi Medical Experiments." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2014. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005168.
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