The TERRIFYING SECRETS about DOCTORS in World War II.

The TERRIFYING SECRETS about
DOCTORS in World War II. #funny

[lesserfool]

Not so fun fact, they are the people who found out that the human body is 70% water

[anthonyburke]

I worked with a man, he was a German POW from the Polish Army for 4 years. He absolutely hated all Germans, except 1, the German Doctor who had treated him for the wound to his arm he sustained that enabled him to be captured. He believed, without that Doctor, he would probably have died and surely lost the arm. The scarring on his arm was horrific, but the arm worked well. In a way, the arm may have saved him, because he was “classified” as light agricultural labourer and got sent to work on a farm and worked there, in harsh conditions and working hard, but fed and not subject to the Allied bombing. At the end of the war, he simply started walking West, when apprehended and told he would be repatriated East to Poland, he “escaped” and walked West again (he did that 3 times). He “sneaked” across the English Channel on a LST and walked West again until he found a farmer that needed a worker. He settled into the farm, spent some years there, developed a liking for and ability to make “hard cider” and refined his then rudimentary English.

[Orphen_]

Even scarier: Not all medical knowledge discovered in WWII has been disclosed or even widely used.
My grandfather, after escaping from a german prison camp and stealing a German Lieutenant uniform, was hit by a shard of a bomb or grenade (not sure on what it was.) Thanks to this, my grandfather had a hole in his back, or to be more precise, he was missing part of his spine. It was big enough that as a child I could fit my hand inside the hole in his back (Well I say hole, but it looked more like his back folded in at that spot)
Thanks to the german uniform he was taken to a hospital where a german surgeon treated him. That surgeon saved my grandfathers life in more than 1 way. He never told anyone my grandfather wasn't german and he made it that my grandfather could walk and live a healthy life (He died at 80 years of age.) Doctors in my homecountry were dumbfounded, with this inury it shouldn't be possible for my grandfather to walk, yet he could.
After the war when my grandfather went to search for the surgeon to thank him, he learned the surgeon was taken away by the Americans.
Untill this day, doctors can't do what that surgeon did.

[TalpaTulpa]

Actually, in this particular place, there was not much medical advancement to be found….it I’m thinking of the right one

[SvensktTroll]

My mother's dentist drilled in her teeth while she was hold down just to see how well they would hold up after they were fixed. That was in the 1960s. And there were nothing wrong with them to begin with.

[mrmastaofdesasta]

Even today, a lot of the more extreme things we know about the human body, such as how long we can survive in ice cold water, come from studies conducted by the nazis, which are still used and referenced today btw.

[Ievademy_taxes]

Unit 731 when they discover that lighting a child on fire kills the child
😱😨😱😱😨😱😱

[jessieu]

That’s how we learned to treat hypothermia. That you need to raise the body temperature slowly with like luke warm water, not hot water.

I’m so conflicted on how many lives were saved by torture.

[Ananaskaneli]

One more positive medical discovery during WW2 that didn't involve torture or prisoners was celiac disease. People didn't know what caused it they just knew that some children had this unexplainable sickness that they died from in few years with extreme pain. But during the war when there was very little wheat for civilians a danish doctor noticed that the children in the celiac ward stopped worsening. He figured out that the only thing that had changed was their diet. He got his hands on some bread and when he fed that to the children they got sick again. And so the cause for the deaths of untold amount of children was discovered.

Funny thing is that a south american doctor noticed about the same time that the celiac was much more common amongst rich families and he to noticed the difference in diet: poor families eat bananas, rich families bread. But instead of realising that bread was the cause he decided that bananas were the cure. Bananas were actually marketed in many parts of Americas as cure for celiac.

[ghoulofmetal]

A vivisection is an autopsy on a living creature.

[okiamherenow]

Philosophy of a knife, a 4 hour long movie/ documentry is about this facility, kinda hard to watch as it is black and white and doesn't follow traditional movie norms but also includes multiple real archive footage of the facility, while "a man behind the sun" another movie on the topic does a decent job but doesn't go too deep in the experiments

[ffgggthh]

my life was going just fine before i leaned this info

[snowassassin]

Yeah, that's another thing of war becoming a living human experiment.

[animuswonder]

slavery and war are mostly why we know so much about the human body. slavers who were also doctors/scholars dissected their slave’s bodies, often while still alive. a lot of the modern female medicine we know is because of the dissection of slaves. there’s a ton of books out there on this :)

[Reaper-J]

Be glad you live in the 21st century my fellows, horrible as this story is it did help humanity as a whole to understand the human body to the point that now we can take a person's bad heart and transplant it with another (recently deceased) persons good heart, when you think about that specifically, sience at its highest peaks is truly indistinguishable from magic.