The autopsy specimen of the brain of a Dachau victim, the experiments were conducted in an attempt to simulate high-altitude conditions. Victims were placed in a low-pressure chamber and then strangled underwater to simulate drowning. This type of experimentation was meant to gather data on how the human body would react to high-altitude conditions, such as those experienced by pilots during air raids.
It is important to note that these types of experiments were not unique to Dachau but were carried out at several other concentration camps during the war as well. The inhumane treatment of prisoners, including medical experimentation, was a hallmark of the Nazi regime and a clear violation of international laws and principles of medical ethics.
In the aftermath of the war, [some of] the doctors who conducted these experiments were put on trial for their crimes, including the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial of 1947. The legacy of these trials serves as a reminder of the importance of holding those who commit such atrocities accountable for their actions and ensuring that similar crimes never occur again. [Note: During the Pinochet dictatorship, many political prisoners were shot, macheted, drowned, or strangled with hanger wire, showing that the tendency to atrocious mistreatment is inherent in ultra-rightwingers. Similar atrocities, committed against Poles, Jews and other "non-pure Ukrainians", were seen in Western Ukraine, at the hands of right-wing Ukrainian militias, the same mob currently supported and used by Washington and its allies as proxy fighters against Russia. Says Wikipedia, a generally pro-Western platform:
Ukrainian: Волинська трагедія, romanized: Volynska trahediia, lit. 'Volyn tragedy'), were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or the UPA, with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia and Lublin region from 1943 to 1945.[7] The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children.[8]Many of the Polish victims regardless of age or gender were tortured before being killed; some of the methods included rape, dismemberment or immolation, among others.[5] The UPA's actions resulted in between 50,000[1] and 100,000 deaths.[3][4][9]
Many pregnant women were also disemboweled.