Inside Ravensbrück: The “Rabbits” and the Medical Experiments on Women
At Ravensbrück—the largest Nazi concentration camp designed primarily for women—there was a group of prisoners known by a name they never chose: the “Rabbits.” These women were used in brutal medical experiments, treated as test material inside a system that combined SS power, camp hierarchy, punishment, and a bureaucracy capable of recording suffering as “procedure.”
This documentary reconstructs how those experiments worked and why Ravensbrück became one of the central sites of this abuse. It explains the full mechanism: how victims were selected, the role of the infirmary and medical blocks, the routine of examinations, the forced interventions, the isolation afterward, and how the camp managed women who were injured, weakened, and still pushed back into a world of labor quotas and discipline.
Told in a clear chronological arc, the film follows the moment a prisoner is separated from the barracks, taken into a clinical room, and returned with wounds that permanently change her place in the camp. The video also shows what came next: infection, chronic pain, punishment for “failing” at work, and the struggle to survive where medicine functioned as control—not care.
Without sensationalism and focused on documented procedures, this documentary explains why the story of the “Rabbits” became one of the harshest proofs of Ravensbrück’s system: a place where a woman’s body could be cut, marked, and discarded under SS authority.
WARNING: This documentary is under an educational and historical context, We do NOT tolerate or promote hatred towards any group of people, we do NOT promote violence. We condemn these events so that they do not happen again. NEVER AGAIN.