# Block 10 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Block_10 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Block_10.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_10 > Source revision: 1308734303 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Barrack at Auschwitz}} {{more footnotes|date=November 2019}} thumb|right|Block 10 [[file:Strasbourg Hôpital civil plaque institut anatomie.jpg|thumb|Memorial plaque at the Institute of Anatomy in Strasbourg. Translated, it reads, in part: "In memory of 86 Jews murdered in 1943 at [Struthof](/source/Natzweiler-Struthof) by [August Hirt](/source/August_Hirt), professor at the Nazi [''Reichsuniversität''](/source/Reichsuniversit%C3%A4t_Stra%C3%9Fburg) in Strasbourg. Their remains rest in the Jewish cemetery in Cronenbourg....Remember them so that medicine shall never again be misguided."]] '''Block 10''' was a barrack at the [Auschwitz concentration camp](/source/Auschwitz_Concentration_Camp) where men and women were used as [experimental subjects](/source/Nazi_human_experimentation) for [Nazi](/source/Nazism) doctors. The experiments in Block 10 tested bodily reactions to various substances, ranging from [no effect](/source/no-observed-adverse-effect_level) to [sterilization](/source/Sterilization_(medicine)). Although Block 10 was in Auschwitz I, a part of the camp mainly used for male political prisoners, the experiments conducted were mostly on women. The main doctors who worked in Block 10 were [Carl Clauberg](/source/Carl_Clauberg), [Horst Schumann](/source/Horst_Schumann), [Eduard Wirths](/source/Eduard_Wirths), [Bruno Weber](/source/Bruno_Weber_(doctor)) and [August Hirt](/source/August_Hirt). Each of them had different methods in doing experiments on the inmates. The prisoners at Auschwitz were also deported to other sites where experimental subjects were needed. For example, twenty Jewish children were transported to the [Neuengamme concentration camp](/source/Neuengamme_concentration_camp) in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg) where they were injected with virulent tubercular serum and subjected to other experiments, and later murdered at the [Bullenhuser Damm](/source/Bullenhuser_Damm) school. {{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} == The doctors == * [Carl Clauberg](/source/Carl_Clauberg){{cite journal |last1=Sweet |first1=Frederick |last2=Csapó-Sweet |first2=Rita M. |title=Clauberg's eponym and crimes against humanity |journal=The Israel Medical Association Journal |date=December 2012 |volume=14 |issue=12 |pages=719–723 |issn=1565-1088|pmid=23393707 }} — He focused on sterilization by injection. His method was to inject a caustic substance into the [cervix](/source/cervix) in order to obstruct the [fallopian tube](/source/fallopian_tube)s. Subjects died during the sterilization whilst others experienced severe pain and infection. His experimental subjects were married women between the ages of twenty and forty who had already had children.{{cite journal |last1=Hildebrandt |first1=Sabine |last2=Benedict |first2=Susan |last3=Miller |first3=Erin |last4=Gaffney |first4=Michael |last5=Grodin |first5=Michael A. |title="Forgotten" Chapters in the History of Transcervical Sterilization: Carl Clauberg and Hans-Joachim Lindemann |journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences |date=1 July 2017 |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=272–301 |doi=10.1093/jhmas/jrx018 |pmid=28873982 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article/72/3/272/3869820 |language=en |issn=0022-5045|url-access=subscription }} * [Horst Schumann](/source/Horst_Schumann) — His experimental subjects were healthy men and women in their late teens or early twenties, on whom he attempted [X-ray](/source/X-ray) sterilization. Victims experienced radiation burns and suppuration upon exposure. The body parts that were affected, mainly the ovaries and testicles, were then surgically removed for examination.{{Cite book |last=Couderc |first=Frédéric |url= |title=Hors d'atteinte, a book by Frédéric Couderc published by Les Escales and Pocket |publisher=Pocket |year=2024 |isbn=9782266336499 |edition=2nd |location=Paris |language=French}} *[Eduard Wirths](/source/Eduard_Wirths) — He focused on the pre-cancerous growth of cervixes, where he frequently photographed cervixes of female prisoners without their consent, amputated them and sent both the photographs and specimen to Dr. Hinselmann. In addition, he sterilized many women by subjecting their ovaries to radiation or surgical removal. He also promoted [Josef Mengele](/source/Josef_Mengele) in August 1944. *[Bruno Weber](/source/Bruno_Weber_(doctor)) — He tested the compatibility of blood types by bleeding prisoners and injecting them with other blood groups. He also experimented on [barbiturate](/source/barbiturate)s and [morphine](/source/morphine) derivatives for mind control purposes. *[August Hirt](/source/August_Hirt) — He was responsible for organizing a [Jewish skull collection](/source/Jewish_skull_collection) from 86 prisoners, to prove their "racial inferiority". He also tested mustard gas on prisoners. ==See also== *[Unit 731](/source/Unit_731) ==References== {{Reflist|35em}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/auschwitz/alphabet/block10.html|title=Block 10|accessdate=2007-05-01|publisher=An Auschwitz Alphabet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602214910/http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/auschwitz/alphabet/block10.html|archive-date=2015-06-02|url-status=dead}} *{{cite news|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/the-deadly-origins-of-a-life-saving-procedure/ |title=The Deadly Origins of a Life-saving Procedure |author=Ruth Jolanda Weinberger |work=The Jewish Daily Forward |date=2007-01-26 |accessdate=2007-05-01 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209030020/http://www.forward.com/articles/the-deadly-origins-of-a-life-saving-procedure/ |archivedate=2007-02-09 |url-status=dead }} * Hans-Joachim Lang: ''Die Frauen von Block 10. Medizinische Experimente in Auschwitz.'' Hamburg 2011. {{ISBN|978-3-455-50222-0}} {{Holocaust Poland Camps}} {{The Holocaust}} {{Authority control}} {{Coord|50.0254|19.2035|display=title}} Category:Auschwitz concentration camp Category:Nazi human subject research --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Block 10](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_10) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_10?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.