(Here's the /r/worstof about it - I'm not trying to bring tedious reddit drama into the conversation, but it does provide in insight into multiple viewpoints about this.)
It seems to me like it's pretty obvious that Nazi medical experimental data isn't ultimately useful scientifically - I read this article recently; although if I'm wrong, please correct me. Regardless, the idea about how this was discussed historically interests me. Is there a history of people attempting to use Nazi experimentation results in their work, or people opening supporting the studies or medical reasons? Did scientists or doctors in ex-allied countries uncover and attempt to use this data after the war? Has it historically been the ethical dilemma it's made out to be, or has there always been a consensus that it's totally unusable data?
I am going to give you a suggestion to read Robert Jay Lifton's The Nazi Doctors if you are truly interested in the subject matter. Much of what the Nazis were doing medically was tainted by their biological and racial theories and was nearly total junk science, despite the massive and horrific loss of life/dignity it entailed. Further a lot of 'findings' were stolen by Nazi doctors from Jewish doctors who could not publish for obvious reasons.
It's not really comparable to Nazi work on say rocketry and physics. No one was trying to save these doctors. They were prosecuted and Dr Mengele was being tracked until his death.
Can I piggyback on this question (mods delete if i can't), has any of the data collected from the Nazi's medical experiments and the ones from the infamous Unit 731 actually proved useful later on?
Also could the information gleaned from them have only been collected in that way i.e. were the experiments (i'm almost loathed to use that word) incapable of being done in a humane or theoretical way and still get the same useful results, assuming it was actually useful.
The one i often hear about from Unit 731 is the data collected on hypothermia from when they just threw people out in the cold to die, and others saying it wasn't in vain as it yielded useful data that couldn't have been done any other way, but i've yet to see any one back that up with sources or even anecdotes.