Why did the Nazis tickle torture people?

The Nazis did a lot of unfortunate experiments on Jewish prisoners in WW2. I suppose the way they could rationalize their cruelty, was that all that was done was documented, and was done for "science". But quite of few of those brutal officers, were not so much interested in science as they were torture. The tickle torture documented the age, weight and sex of the person and they determined that most got to the breaking point about the same time, regardless of the methods.

One very interesting experiment they performed, was that they took two male prisoners into a room, indicating that both of them would be executed in the same manner. They made one watch while the other, strapped to a gurney, his arms bent down, out of his sight, then the wrists were sliced with a razor and the blood made a sound as it spilled into metal buckets on both sides. They methodically wrote down how long it took the prisoner to die.

Then the second man was strapped to the gurney in the same manner, but instead of his wrists being sliced, a sharp sliver of ice was run across each wrist, and a trickle of water that had been heated to body temperature was allowed to drip across each wrist. This prisoner also died, his mind hearing the water that he believed to be blood dripping. His time to die was slightly more than the man who was actually cut. An autopsy was performed to determine cause of death, and the autopsy revealed that all though he had not been cut and had retained all of his blood, the symptom's were such that he had bled to death.

A horrible time in our history. My father was in that war and was part of the liberating army that captured several concentration camps and freed the prisoners.

God Bless.

Tickle Torture