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"MAD SCIENCE," FROM "NAZI" TO "NASA"
from: http://www.freeamerica.com/gvcon8.html
Mind control origins found in Nazi Germany [cont'd]
by Harry V. Martin and David Caul
Napa Sentinel, Nov. 19, 1991
At the conclusion of the war, the OSS was designated as the
investigative unit for the International Military Tribunal, which
was to become known as the Nuremberg Trials. The purpose of
Nuremberg was to try the principal Nazi leaders. Some Nazis were
on trial for their experiments, and the U.S. was using its own
"truth drugs" on these principal Nazi prisoners, namely Goring,
Ribbentrop, Speer and eight others. The Justice in charge of the
tribunal had given the OSS permission to use the drugs.
The Dachau doctors who performed the mescaline experiments also
were involved in aviation medicine. The aviation experiments at
Dachau fascinated Heinrich Himmler. Himmler followed the progress
of the tests, studied their findings and often suggested
improvements. The Germans had a keen interest in several medical
problems in the field of flying, they were interested in
preventing pilots from slowly becoming unconscious as a result of
breathing the thin air of the high altitudes and there was
interest in enhancing night vision.
The main research in this area was at the Institute of Aviation
in Munich, which had excellent laboratories. The experiments in
relationship to the Institute were conducted at Dachau. Inmates
had been immersed in tubs of ice water with instruments placed in
their orifices in order to monitor their painful deaths. Dr.
Hubertus Strughold, who ran the German aviation medicine team,
confirmed that he had heard humans were used for the Dachau
experiments. Hidden in a cave in Hallein were files recording the
Dachau experiments.
On May 15, 1941, Dr. Sigmund Rascher wrote a letter to Himmler
requesting permission to use the Dachau inmates for experiments
on the physiology of high altitudes. Rascher lamented the fact
that no such experiments have been done using human subjects.
"The experiments are very dangerous and we cannot attract
volunteers," he told Himmler. His request was approved.
Dachau was filled with Communists and Social Democrats, Jews,
Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, clergymen, homosexuals, and people
critical of the Nazi government. Upon entering Dachau, prisoners
lost all legal status, their hair was shaved off, all their
possessions confiscated, they were poorly fed, and they were used
as slaves for both the corporations and the government. The SS
guards were brutal and sadistic. The idea to test subjects at
Dachau was really the brain child of Erich Hippke, chief
surgeon of the Luftwaffe.
Between March and August of 1942 extensive experiments were
conducted at Dachau regarding the limits of human endurance at
high altitudes. These experiments were conducted for the benefit
of the German Air Force. The experiments took place in a
low-pressure chamber in which altitudes of up to 68,000 feet
could be simulated. The subjects were placed in the chamber and
the altitude was raised, many inmates died as a result. The
survivors often suffered serious injury. One witness at the
Nuremberg trails, Anton Pacholegg, who was sent to Dachau in
1942, gave an eyewitness account of the typical pressure test:
"The Luftwaffe delivered a cabinet constructed of wood and metal.
It was possible in the cabinet to either decrease or increase the
air pressure. You could observe through a little window the
reaction of the subject inside the chamber. The purpose of these
experiments was to test human energy and the subject's
capacity...to take large amounts of pure oxygen, and then to test
his reaction to a gradual decrease in oxygen. I have personally
seen through the observation window of the chamber when a
prisoner inside would stand a vacuum until his lungs ruptured.
Some experiments gave men such pressure in their heads that they
would go mad and pull out their hair in an effort to relieve the
pressure. They would tear their heads and face with their fingers
and nails in an attempt to maim themselves in their madness. They
would beat the walls with their hands and head and scream in an
effort to relieve pressure in their eardrums. These cases of
extreme vacuums generally ended in the death of the subjects."
The former prisoner also testified, "An extreme experiment was so
certain to result in death that in many instances the chamber was
used for routine execution purposes rather than an experiment." A
minimum 200 prisoners were known to have died in these
experiments.
The doctors directly involved with the research held very high
positions: Karl Brandt was Hitler's personal doctor; Oskar
Schroeder was the Chief of the Medical Services of the Luftwaffe;
Karl Gebhardt was Chief Surgeon on the Staff of the Reich
Physician SS and Police and German Red Cross President; Joachim
Mrugowsky was Chief of the Hygienic Institute of the Waffen SS;
Helmut Poppendick was a senior colonel in the SS and Chief of the
Personal Staff of the Reich Physicians SS and Police; Siegfried
Ruff was Director of the Department of Aviation Medicine.
The first human guinea pig was a 37 year old Jew in good health.
Himmler invited 40 top Luftwaffe officers to view a movie of an
inmate dying in the pressure chamber. After the pressure chamber
tests, the cold treatment experiments began. The experiments
consisted of immersing inmates in freezing water while their
vital signs were monitored. The goal was to discover the cause of
death. Heart failure was the answer. An inmate described the
procedures:
"The basins were filled with water and ice was added until the
water measured 37.4 F and the experimental subjects were either
dressed in a flying suit or were placed in the water naked. The
temperature was measured rectally and through the stomach. The
lowering of the body temperature to 32 degrees was terrible for
experimental subjects. At 32 degrees the subject lost
consciousness. They were frozen to 25 degrees. The worst
experiment was performed on two Russian officer POWs. They
were placed in the basin naked. Hour after hour passed, and while
usually after a short time, 60 minutes, freezing had set in,
these two Russians were still conscious after two hours. After
the third hour one Russian told the other, 'Comrade, tell that
officer to shoot us.' The other replied, 'Don't expect any mercy
from this Fascist dog.' Then they shook hands and said goodbye.
The experiment lasted at least five hours until death occurred.
Dry freezing experiments were also carried out a Dachau. One
subject was put outdoors on a stretcher at night when it was
extremely cold. While covered with a linen sheet, a bucket of
cold water was poured over him every hour. He was kept outdoors
undersub-freezing conditions. In subsequent experiments, subjects
were simply left outside naked in a court under freezing
conditions for hours. Himmler gave permission to move the
experiments to Auschwitz, because it was more private and
because the subjects of the experiment would howl all night as
they froze. The physical pain of freezing was terrible. The
subjects died by inches, heartbeat became totally irregular,
breathing difficulties and lung endema resulted, hands and feet
became frozen white."
As the Germans began to lose the war, the aviation doctors began
too keep their names from appearing in Himmler's files for fear
of future recriminations.
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America made it to the moon with Dachau research
by Harry V. Martin and David Caul
Napa Sentinel, Nov. 22, 1991
The Nazi doctors who experimented on the inmates of prison camps
during World War Two were tried for murder at the Nuremberg
Tribunal. The accused were educated, trained physicians, they did
not kill in anger or in malice, they were creating a science of
death.
Ironically, in 1933, the Nazi's passed a law for the protection
of animals. The law cited the prevention of cruelty and
indifference to animals as one of the highest moral values of a
people, animal experimentation was unthinkable, but human
experimentations were acceptable. The victims of the crime of
these doctors numbered into the thousands.
In 1953, while the Central Intelligence Agency was still
conducting mind control and behavior modification on unwitting
humans in this country, the United States signed the Nuremberg
Code, a code born out of the ashes of war and human suffering.
The document was a solemn promise never to tolerate such human
atrocities again. The Code maintains three fundamental
principles:
*The subjects of any experimentation must be volunteers who
thoroughly understand the purpose and the dangers of the
experiments. They must be free to give consent and the consent
must be without pressure and they must be free to quit the
experiments at any time.
*The experiments must be likely to yield knowledge which is
valuable to everyone. The knowledge must be such that it could
not be gained in any other way.
*The experiments must be conducted by only the most competent
doctors, and they must exercise extreme care.
The Nazi aviation experiments met none of these conditions. Most
inmates at Dachau knew that the experiments in the pressure
chamber were fatal. From the very beginning, control of the
experiments was largely in the hands of the SS, which was later
judged to be a criminal organization by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Despite our lessons from Nuremberg and the death camps, the CIA,
U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Chemical Corps targeted specific
groups of people for experimentation who were not able to resist,
prisoners, mental patients, foreigners, ethnic minorities, sex
deviants, the terminally ill, children and U.S. military
personnel and prisoners of war. They violated the Nuremberg Code
for conducting and subsidizing experiments on unwitting citizens.
The CIA began its mind control projects in 1953, the very year
that the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code and pledged with
the international community of nations to respect basic human
rights and to prohibit experimentation on captive populations
without full and free consent.
Dr. Cameron, a CIA operative, was one of the worst offenders
against the Code, yet he was a member of the Nuremberg Tribunal,
with full knowledge of its testimony. In 1973, a three judge
court in Michigan ruled, "...experimental psychosurgery, which is
irreversible and intrusive, often leads to the blunting of
emotions, the deadening of memory, the reduction of affect, and
limits the ability to generate new ideas. Its potential for
injury to the creativity of the individual is great and
can infringe on the right of the individual to be free from
interference with his mental process.
"The state's interest in performing psychosurgery and the legal
ability of the involuntarily detained mental patient to give
consent, must bow to the First Amendment, which protects the
generation and free flow of ideas from unwarranted interference
with one's mental processes." Citing the Nuremberg Code, the
court found that "the very nature of the subject's incarceration
diminishes the capacity to consent to psychosurgery." In 1973,
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted regulations which would
require informed written consent from voluntary patients before
electroshock treatment could be performed.
Senator Sam Ervin's Committee lashed out bitterly at the mind
control and behavior modification experiments and ordered them
discontinued, they were not. But the New England Journal of
Medicine states, that the consent provisions are "no more than an
elaborate ritual." They called it "a device that when the subject
is uneducated and uncomprehending, confers no more than a
semblance of propriety on human experimentation."
The Nuremberg Tribunal brought to light that some of the most
respected figures in the medical profession were involved in the
vast crime network of the SS. Only 23 persons were charged with
criminal activity in this area, despite the fact that hundreds of
medical personnel were involved. The defendants were charged with
crimes against humanity. They were found guilty of planning and
executing experiments on humans without their consent, in a cruel
and brutal manner which involved severe torture, deliberate
murder and with the full knowledge of the gravity of their deeds.
Only seven of the defendants were sentenced to death and hanged,
others received life sentences. Five who were involved in the
experiments were not tried. Ernest Grawitz committed suicide, Car
l Clauberg was tried in the Soviet Union, Josef Mengele escaped
to South America and was later captured by Israeli agents, Horst
Schumann disappeared and Siegmund Rascher was executed by
Himmler.
There were 200 German medical doctors conducting these medical
experiments. Most of these doctors were friends of the United
States before the war, and despite their inhuman experiments, the
U.S. attempted to rebuild a relationship with them after the war.
The knowledge the Germans had accumulated at the expense of human
life and suffering, was considered a "booty of war", by the
Americans and the Russians. The Americans tracked down Dr.
Strughold, the aviation doctor who was in charge of the Dachau
experiments. With full knowledge that the experiments were
conducted on captive humans, the U.S. recruited the doctors to
work for them. General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his personal
approval to exploit the work and research of the Nazi's in the
death camps.
Within weeks of Eisenhower's order, many of these notorious
doctors were working for the U.S. Army at Heidelberg. Army teams
scoured Europe for scientific experimental apparatus such as
pressure chambers, compressors, G-force machines, giant
centrifuges, and electron microscopes. These doctors were wined
and dined by the U.S. Army while most of Germany's post-war
citizens virtually starved. The German doctors were brought to
the U.S. and went to work for Project Paperclip. All these
doctors had been insulated against war crime charges. The
Nuremberg prosecutors were shocked that U.S. authorities
were using the German doctors despite their criminal past.
Under the leadership of Strughold, 34 scientists accepted
contracts from Project Paperclip, and were moved to Randolph Air
Force Base at San Antonio, Texas. The authorization to hire these
Nazi scientists came directly for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The
top military brass stated that they wished to exploit these rare
minds. Project Paperclip, ironically, would use Nazi doctors to
develop methods of interrogating German prisoners of war.
As hostilities began to build after the war between the Americans
and the Russians, the U.S. imported as many as 1000 former Nazi
scientists.
In 1969, Americans landed on the moon, and two groups of
scientist in the control center shared the credit, the rocket
team from Peenemunde, Germany, under the leadership of Werner von
Braun, these men had perfected the V-2s which were built in the
Nordhausen caves where 20,000 slave laborers from prison camp
Dora had been worked to death. The second group were the space
doctors, lead by 71-year-old Dr. Hubertus Strughold, whose work
was pioneered in Experimental Block No. 5 of the Dachau
concentration camp and the torture and death of hundreds of
inmates. The torture chambers that was used to slowly kill the
prisoners of the Nazi's were the test beds for the apparatus that
protected Neil Armstrong from harm, from lack of oxygen, and
pressure, when he walked on the moon.
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