Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Body Sphere
Not all Nazi human experimentations ended with death. Some Australian soldiers may have suffered for years after being guinea pigs for Nazi scientists. Amanda Smith tells their story.
Some of the cruellest, vilest things humans do to each other are done in wartime.
During the Second World War, one of the most shocking things that occurred – in a long list of shocking things – was human medical experimentation in Nazi concentration camps.
Until now, however, it wasn’t known that the Nazis also experimented on Australian POWs.
Konrad Kwiet is the resident historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum. He’s researching the experiments alongside surgeon and academic George Weisz. . . [Full text]