Ravensbruck, Germany, Scars on a leg of a woman after medical experimentation in the concentration camp
Ravensbruck, Germany, Scars on a leg of a woman after medical experimentation in the concentration camp
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The framework and purpose of these "medical experiments" was to treat war injuries. The experimentation consisted of breaking bones and transplants of the bone, muscle and nerves. During the medical experimentation prisoners legs were broken, whole bones and tissue were removed and sent for transplants for SS patients.
These photographs were used as evidence in the Medical Trials that were held in Nuremberg from October 25, 1946 to August 20, 1947
Yad Vashem's original photo collection was composed of photos taken out of files during the organization of the archives.