Auschwitz

The first gas chamber to be used was bult in Auschwitz I. The gas that was used in the chambers was called Zyklon B. In Birkinau, the largest number of people that could be killed in the gas chambers was 6,000 people daily. The gas chambers lookes just like shower rooms. The prisoners were told they needed to be cleaned before work, and were then killed in the stalls. On the borders of Auschwitz I and Birkinau, electrical fences were put up. Watchtowers and S.S. men lined the complex with automatic guns to be used in any escape situations. Canals also lined the border of Birkinau. Starting in March of 1942, trains arrived at Auschwitz-Birkinau daily, carrying Jews from Europe. The prisoners anger and rebelion to the Nazis was always there, but only a few people decided to do anthing though. In the most difficult times, 667 prisoners tried to escape. Only 270 of them made it, and the ones who got caught were executed. Jewish leaders wanted to ! have the Allied powers bomb Auschwitz at one time. This never did happen though. A group of women at the camp destroyed one of the gas chambers in an uprise. The leaders of the uproar were found and executd on January 6th, 1945.
             In the interest of.saving lives, is it acceptable to make use of data collected through mutilation, torture, and death (Campbell, 16)? That is the question which has been rearing its head in scientific research since the end of World War II. As man has sought to quench his thirst for knowledge, lines of ethicality have been drawn to preserve the integrity of science, and provide a framework from which man can improve upon the quality of human life. In Nazi concentration and death camps, the gruesome sibling of science matured. Nazi scientists, physicians, and scholars tore down the ethical framework of science in order to eliminate the genetically inferior, and ultimately, attempt to forge a pure race of super-humans . Members of the Nazi scientific community were to serve as alert biological soldiers (Crum, 33).