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Information on the Medical Experiments Performed in Ravensbrück
From Women in European History  Medical practices and
professions have been formulated on the commitment to benefit
the patient, an ethical norm restrained and regulated by ability
and judgment. German physicians with high professional
qualifications severely manipulated and destroyed such a promise
by daring to use living people as guinea pigs in the Ravensbrück
concentration camp for women during World War II. Starting in
the August of 1942 and ending in the September of 1943, Nazi
medical doctors in the Ravensbrück camp conducted a series of
injurious tests and experimental operations on Polish political
prisoners, although Nazi experimentation on humans became
characteristic to a number of other concentration camps as
well.[1] The number of Polish women operated on in the camp
totaled seventy-four, five of whom died as a result of the
experimentation while six others were execute