Did medical science make use of some of Dr. Mengele's (Nazi) medical data?

Question

Dr. Mengele (aka The Angel of Death) did all sorts of bizarre experiments on labor camp prisoners that frequently killed them. Many were experiments involving exposure to cold, decompression, amputation, etc. that killed the subjects. Did the medical world or US army / space program make use of any of this data for their own purposes?????

Answer 1

Yes they did. Although Mengele's work was macabre and cruel, it was both productive and informative.

Answer 2

His main study was the twins? He also experimented on the German children in Czechoslovakian Nazi School Camps with birthing by inbreeding? To produce the Aryan race? What a joke.
Mengele was not the only scientist inventing or experimenting, look up the Nuremburg tribunals, (trials) you will see a whole list of them. Although he had experimented his findings by torture was the good that came out of the bad. The good that came out of the bad were the survivors of the Holocaust and their memories of such a catastrophe so it will not ever happen again.
However there was Gustav Krupp von Buhlen who is the ancestor that still manufactures coffee pots? The Hunt family, Hunts Catsup? General Mills(cereals etc.) these were many of the families that were out to destroy the world and supported Hitler emphatically. America is not their home Europe/Britain is and all their lineage from their dead ancestors. They all thought they were superior. The purpose of using these studies was to help mankind, and we did not have to torture people to get those results ever. Russia did the same thing until the wall came down. So there are secret facilities that they do these things. Look up what the Nazis did in Brazil after WW11 in experiments? And that Mengele lived in Argentina and performed experiments on natives there and tortured them as well. The ones that worked in the diamond fields there and the emeralds etc., He continued the amputations on many and stumped their legs so that they could not run away as well. Transplanted eyes for color experiments as well as sight? What kind of Frankensteins are we willing to allow to continue after the War? Well ask the governments? They all knew. And we all kept quiet for the good of mankind? Oh really?

Answer 3

Eventually yes, though they did have reservations about benefiting from such brutality. In particular, Mengele's experiments with hypothermia did provide useful information which saved the lives of people who were exposed to cold water, such as pilots who were shot down and had to ditch in the North Sea. In a way, some of that knowledge is still being used today.

It's a tough call - using the information seems to give legitimacy to the methods used; but not doing so means others will suffer when they could have been saved, and means the victims truly died for nothing. It's a classic conundrum in medical ethics which is still debated.

Answer 4

Yes. But other nazis were experimenting on prisoners to find out how much cold and lack of oxygen they could stand before they died. This data was used by the americans in their subsequent aerospace program.
The most notorious event of this kind was the use by the americans of the war criminal Werner von Braun, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of British civilians, to run their missile and space program after WW2

Answer 5

Although the stuff the nazis did was appalling, thanks to their "research", we have blood transfusions and skin grafting to name just two of the benefits. As for the US army, they just specialise in killing people.