Researcher discovers remains of Holocaust victims of Nazi experiments

A historian in France has discovered the remains of dozens of Jewish Holocaust victims who were experimented on by Nazis.

Raphael Toledano, a researcher from Strasbourg, has spent more than a decade researching the French city's Nazi past.

It all began when he stumbled upon a WWII-era letter detailing the storage of remains taken from 86 Jews. The grisly discovery included "a jar containing skin fragments of a victim of the gas chambers" as well as "two tubes containing the contents of an intestine and the stomach of a victim."

Nazi anatomy professor August Hirt selected the victims for his macabre experiments.

They were sent to gas chambers at concentration camps and their bodies brought to Strasbourg where Hirt examined them.

He conducted horrifying tests on the bodies designed to prove that Jews were inferior to other races. In 1945 Hirt committed suicide the leftover remains ended up in the forensic science museum at the University of Strasbourg where they were tracked down by Toledano 70 years later.