Imagine being forced outside naked in bitter cold conditions, forced to stay outside until your arms, when struck with a stick, make a sound similar to what a plank would make when she is hit { NY Times: Japan}. So imagine having boiling water forced into your internal organs, in an attempt to warm you up, but the boiling heat of the water instead kills you. This is just one of the horrific “medical” experiments performed during the Holocaust. But the thing most people don't know is that, around the same time this horror was occurring, the American government and Japan were performing equally gruesome and horrific experiments on others. The Holocaust, the most famous of the three I'm comparing, was a tragedy and the number of deaths is simply horrible to think about. When you think about medical experiments during this atrocious time, one name stands out. Josef Mengele. The name even gives me shivers. If you don't know who he is, you're in luck. He himself performed the most horrendous "experiments" on the defenseless people who were his victims. These gruesome experiments fall into three categories: military research, pharmaceutical research, and racially motivated research. Military research was what Nazi doctors considered a “military necessity.” These inhumane acts included freezing experiments in which helpless prisoners were immersed in tubs of ice water for hours each day and watched as they trembled to death, in order to find out how long downed German pilots could survive in the freezing waters of the North Sea. . Another experiment was the high-altitude experiments, in which victims were placed in a decompression chamber to simulate high-altitude conditions, then...... middle of paper ......008.Web. February 13, 2014. Kristof, Nicholas D. "Exposing the Horror - A Special Report.; Japan Confronts Gruesome War Atrocities." Unmasking the horror: n. page The New York Times. Network. 13 February 2014.unmasking-horror-a-special-report-japan-confronting-gruesome-war-atrocity.html?src=pm&pagewanted=1>.Cohen, Baruch C. "Nazi medical experimentation: the ethics of use of medical data" From Nazi Experiments. "Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment". Infoplease.com." Infoplease.© 2000–2013 Pearson Education, published as Infoplease.14 Feb. 2014 .