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This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Dr. Marc-Pierre Perret

As we all remember from chapter 5 Archie and Samad had a little experience with Dr. Marc-Pierre Perret, or as the town called him Dr. Sick.
The Russian troops came into this town to capture this doctor and bring him to Poland to face criminal charges with appropriate authorities. I wanted to find out if this doctor actually existed and if similar doctors faced criminal charges for human rights violations.
I could not find a "Dr. Marc-Pierre Perret" to have existed in real life. But, I did find many instances of loyal Nazi doctors performing experiments on alive humans during WWII.

The information is rather disgusting and I wish that I did not research into this topic.
If you want to read on about what kind of experiments the Nazi doctors did on Jews and other prisoners you can read on, but it is disgusting.
Under the direction of Dr. Wirths experiments were done on the human body.
Tests were done where prisoners were locked in a tub of ice to see how fast they would die. Inmates were also put naked into a cage in the middle of winter to see at what temperature the human body would stop working.
Jews were given only sea water to see if sea water was able to hydrate a human body. Inmates were licking moped floors in an attempt to get fresh water.
Many inmates at Auschwitz had radiation experiments performed without knowledge. This woudl leave thousands of inmates sterile without knowing what had happened.
Experiments with poisons, mustard gas, malaria, and flying prisoners to extremely high altitudes without a pressure suit were all performed.
Following this the Nuremberg codes of medical ethics were created to prevent prisoners of war from being human experiments.

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