Luftwaffe Colonel Hurbertus Strughold was an intelligent man but there are many theories about his potential link to cruelty. According to the controversy of Hubertus Strughold during World War II, “Dr. Hubertus Strughold was an early pioneer of aerospace medicine. He was educated in Germany and was the Director of the Berlin Aeromedical Research Institute of the German Air Ministry during World War II”(Campbell, Mark R, and V. A. Harsch 3). Who was Strughold and can he possibly be linked to brutal war crimes?Strughold was very knowledgeable and intelligent, and, therefore, the U.S. government wanted to use his knowledge. According to the Aviation, Space, and Environmental  Medicine (1986), he was described as “A man who loved words, Dr. Strughold coined a number of words related to space” (Strughoid Hubertus 1220). He contributed many words including “...bioastronautics (man travelling in space), gravisphere (wherever man's gravitational field is dominant), and astrobiology (the study of life on other planets)”(1220). His influence is still present today, some of his words are still used regularly. Another proof of his intelligence as illustrated by the  Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine (1986) was, “he was…awarded the AsMA Theodore C. Lyster Award(1958)…and the Louis H. Bauer Founders Award (1965)”(1220). With his many awards and research in the aerospace field, he proved to be invaluable to research in aerospace. Hurbertus Strughold was described as cruel because “Strughold was found to be connected to cruel experiments performed on Dachau Concentration Camp inmates” (11). One experiment he was found to be a part of was “Freezing experiments…performed on helpless Russian prisoners at Dachau” (11). Even with the potential link to brutal crimes, this did not deter the U.S. government from wanting access to Stronghold's knowledge. Stronghold's connection to the experiments performed on the prisoners were shocking; some were even performed on “…young children who came from psychiatric asylums” ( 11). Unfortunately, Strughold “…continued his research in the United States (Hunt, 1991)’”( 11). Another experiment he was linked to were“experiments to find out how long test subjects could withstand extremely high altitude”(Campbell, R., and Harsch 4). This may be how he was able to advance in the aerospace world. There are many different links that connect Stronghold to cruel and inhumane experiments.

 Stronghold's potential connections to cruel experiments was overlooked for the sake of his vast knowledge. Any association with brutal experiments should be an obvious reason to not allow him into the country. However bad Dr. Strugholds past experiments may have been, he was able to immigrate unhindered into America. Where he continued his research with no formal investigation into the allegations of cruelly conducted experiments.