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Nazi’s are known for the sick experiments that they conducted on their prisoners, some of which we know, some of which we may not. One of the unknown experiments came from one of the unknown concentration camps, a camp that held mostly women.

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The Ravensbrück concentration camp was the home of the Ravensbrück rabbits (the name of 72 polish women that were experimented on). The highly ranked SS officer was one of Hitler’s closest friends who died from injuries in a car bombing. Hitler blamed his death on the SS doctor, Dr. Karl Gebhardt, who thought it was best not to use sulfa drugs to treat his injury. To prove his point Dr. Gebhardt came up with the experiment.

In this experiment they split up the women into 7 groups with about 10 women in each. They recreated the leg injuries on all of the women and used sulfa drugs to treat them. The experiment caused death, declined health, and changed the way their leg looked drastically, as shown in the picture below (theres more graphic pics in the gallery).

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Some of Ravensbrück rabbits recall the women, having a deep bond with each other. Martha Hall Kelly author of “Lilac Girls” (a novel based on these women) says,

“They would pinch their cheeks for color, do their hair, do the best they could to make themselves beautiful for that last walk. And they talked about whether they would be brave enough to shout ‘Long Live Poland,’ because the Nazis hated that. There was a sedative drink [guards] would give them, and some women refused to take it.”

Luckily more than half of the Ravensbrück rabbits came out of this horrid experiment alive. Only 5 remain, some of which share their stores still to this day. Check out some of them being interview in the video below:

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