Oberheuser and Gebhardt were posted to
Ravensbrück in 1942 in order to conduct experiments on its prisoners, with an emphasis on finding better methods of treating infection. so named because they had worked at the
SS sanatorium at Hohenlychen. The group conducted
gruesome medical experiments, without anaesthetic, such as infecting wounds with rusty nails, broken shards of glass, dirt or sawdust; treating purposely infected wounds with
sulphonamide; and removing or amputating bone, muscle, and nerve tissue to study regeneration. The experiments were conducted on 86 women, 74 of whom were
Polish political prisoners. Five of the prisoners died as a direct result of the experiments and those who survived were often crippled for life. They were cruelly referred to not as human beings but as "guinea pigs" or "rabbits". Oberheuser "did a great deal of the actual work". Her duties included conducting humiliating gynaecological examinations on women arriving at the camp, selecting young, healthy Polish inmates for the human experiments to be conducted on, infecting wounds, and assisting in all surgical procedures. She was also one of the group members responsible for post operative care of the victims, but is recalled by witnesses as having done not much other than making the injuries worse. ==Trial==