Holocaust/Tuskegee Essay Example

Holocaust/Tuskegee Essay The Tuskegee Experiments and the Holocaust: A Comparison The Tuskegee Experiments and the Jewish Holocaust are similar in many different ways. In both cases, the men were victims of their government, the participants were chosen by race, and there were a conspiracies to keep the governments As in the Jewish Holocaust, the victims of the Tuskegee Experiments were also victims of their government. The US government allowed for the experimentation , with the syphilis virus,of their citizens. This relates to the experimentation done on the Jewish prisoners of the German governments concentration camps. The victims of the Tuskegee experiments, like the victims of the Holocaust, were chosen because of their race. Like the German government chose Jewish people, the United States Public Health Service chose to experiment only on African American men.There were about six hundred participants in the Tuskegee Experiments, all men of African Like the German Reich worked with the towns near their concentration camps to keep their atrocities a secret, the US Public Health Service worked with the Tuskegee Institute, local draft boards and health departments among others to keep their experiments true intentions and actions a secret. If the public learned of these inhumane actions, the US Public Health Service knew that their experiment would be terminated before they realized their goal. As one can see, the Tuskegee Experiments are just as bad if not worse than the Jewish Holocaust. Instead of learning from the inhumanity and tribulation that the Jewish victims suffered during the Jewish Holocaust, the United States government conspired to mislead and harm their African American citizens. To me, this is even more wicked.