Why did Nazis perform experiments?

Answer 1

Yes, unfortunately they did just about anything you can think of to kill a Jew. Jews were like rats to them, they were non-human to Nazis and if the Nazis wanted to test something, they would use a Jew.

Answer 2

to do many things. a lot with twins, to see if eye color could be changed. and to see if they could make conjoined twins out of not conjoined twins. go to wikipedia.org and search "nazi human experimentation" (without the quotes) to see what else they did.

Answer 3

people experiment on guinea pigs because, although they have many features in common with human beings (notably the inability to synthesize Vitamin C), they are not in fact human. The Nazi attitude toward Jews was nauseatingly similar.

Answer 4

Much of Nazi science revolved around the study of genetics and also the limits of the human body. They exploited innocent Jewish (and non-Jewish) prisoners in order to further scientific understanding of how the body and reproduction worked, mostly for sinister reasons.

Part of the Nazi philosophy was de-humanizing of the Jews, who were viewed as "untermensch", or sub-human. That is, the Nazis saw Jews as nothing but animals, so, it was OK to experiment on animals, then, Jews were OK too. In modern terms, the Jews were thought of as cockroaches - disgusting, vile, disease-spreading things that no-one cared about, and people would thank you for getting rid of. So, in the course of their scientific experiments, Nazis simply used Jews rather than animals - after all, they thought, who cares if they are hurt or die? They're not really people, just Jews. And if they could get better (and more applicable) data from their experiment by using a Jew (instead of an animal), well, all the better for that experiment.

The Jews weren't the only ones to be experimented on in this manner - homosexuals, mentally handicapped or mentally ill, Roma (gypsies), and many Slavs (Poles and Russians, in particular) were subjected to the same experiments, for the same reason - the Nazis simply didn't view them as people, and thus, their lives were at the whim of the Nazis.

Answer 5

After WW1, Germany was very poor. Hitler said he could make Germany a great country again. They put Hitler in charge and he wanted "Racial purity" so they killed all the Jews. It is known as The Holocaust.

Answer 6

In terms of the reasons why the Nazis hated the Jews, those are as simply as possible:

• The Nazis thought that the German Jews were 'alien', 'un-German' and a 'corrupting influence' on Germany and that they were encouraging immorality.
• The Nazis believed that the Jews were Communists (and that Communism was a specifically Jewish ideology).
• There were strange conspiracy theories that claimed that the Jews were trying to achieve 'world domination'.
• The Nazis said that the Jews were enemies of Germany, and that Jews and Germans were locked in a struggle to the death. (This was another of those conspiracy theories that many Nazis took seriously).
• The Nazis believed that the Jews had made Germany lose World War 1.
• The Nazis subscribed to racialist theories that claimed that the Jews were inferior to others.
• However, Nazi Propaganda also portrayed them as very clever indeed, very dangerous and close to achieving world domination: the two don't even begin to fit.
• With the start of World War 2 in September 1939 Hitler became obsessed with the idea that 'the Jews' had started the war.
• Earlier, 'religious' hostility to Judaism had often demonized the Jews and painted them as sinister and evil.