Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration camps

Experiments with concentration camp prisoners began immediately after the beginning of the war in 1939. That children were first involved in mid-1943 allows the presumption that the concentration camp experiments on children were the apex of morally uninhibited research, in which children particularly Jewish children were 'considered as a type of subhuman species'. Officially Himmler decided what types of prisoners were to be used for experiments. The immunologist Arnold Dohmen carried out experimental studies since the start of 1942 in order to identify the pathogen causing hepatitis. He selected 12 boys for his experiments of whom 11 were later transferred to Sachsenhausen