Sterilization and medical experiments in Auschwitz | DW Documentary



In Auschwitz, gynecologist Carl Clauberg attempted to sterilize hundreds of girls and women. Many died. Some of the last survivors relate their terrible experiences at the death camp.

Almost 80 years ago, Kiel gynecologist Carl Clauberg was given permission by SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler to sterilize hundreds of girls and women in Block 10 at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Clauberg had previously worked with the chemical company Schering-Kahlbaum AG to develop hormone drugs and contrast agents for use in his experiments. “We were called up with our numbers, then Clauberg appeared and injected something into our vaginas. And then they sometimes said: ‘No more children’,” remembers Auschwitz survivor Leny Adelaar.
Carl Clauberg was a leading light in world of reproductive medicine at the time; an ambitious, driven doctor who volunteered his services to the Nazis as a way to further his career. His research paved the way for the invention of the birth control pill. His work on birth control and infertility is still part of the medical canon to this day – but all too often, a veil is drawn over his experiments at Auschwitz.
This documentary records the experiences of the last survivors of those terrible experiences. The women talk about their lives before and after the death camp, about their suffering, their loss and how they managed to carry on living after liberation. Among them were some who were fortunate enough to have children, against all odds.

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25 thoughts on “Sterilization and medical experiments in Auschwitz | DW Documentary”

  1. After the war the Americans ( and their allies, the West) took all the scientists and doctors in ( even the Japanese Unit 713 members) and granted them immunity. We used the info they gathered with their atrocities and benefited from it. Knowing that people suffered and died for it and us taking and using it? Doesn't that make us evil too? Or should we use it because people suffered and died, so their sacrifice would not be in vain??? Something to think about…..

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  2. We must never forget, and we must never, ever, EVER let this kind of thing happen again. Also, there were many men who were sterilized in these medical "experiments" by these "doctors", too. For example, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum (1887 – 1979).

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  3. God bless all victims. There were and there still are men who hate women. Here in the UK many men hate women. I have been abused for more than 15 years both physically and psychologically. Women don't mean anything here in the UK. God is my saviour.

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  4. My Son moved from Scotland to Germany 6 years ago. On his first salary, he was shocked to be deducted 40 Euro to pay for German TV. He had no television and I remember it annoying
    him so much, but I have to say, DW Documentary are much better than the BBC in the UK, different class, DW are years ahead.

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  5. There is something about that generation that I don't think we are going to see for a very long time. The WWII generation are/were tough people. They never complained, worked hard and built their communities. We have owe a lot to the people who lived/survived and died during that time. I am so glad these women lived for so long. They and everyone else are a true testament to the human condition.

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  6. Hitlar was not powerful, he was made powerful by supporting people. It's those bloody people should be blamed 1st. Unity is strength. Truth is not the winner. It's the majority

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