AHC: WWII Human experimention yields medical advancement?

While I have no doubt that the Draka and probably the USA* in DoD achieved medical advances based on experimentation on Human Beings, I wonder just how possible that would be in OTL WWII. As far as I can tell, no significant medical advances were made from the work that the Nazi Doctors like Mengele did in the Concentration Camps and Unit 731 seems to have only been useful in regards to making bio-weaponry. Is there any way that we can have something like the Polio Vaccine, understanding of transplants or something else that would truly be considered a medical advancement?

(POD 1935 or later)
 
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Actually a lot of modern knowledge of the effects of freezing on the human body comes from experiments from concentration camps. And if I recall correctly, some of the information on oxygen deprivation was used by NASA later on during the space program.

Vaccines? Nah we didn't get anything quite like that, but we actually did get an eerily large amount of information from camp experiments.
 
Japanese experimentation with weaponized anthrax and other biological agents gave the US much of the knowledge regarding the effect of those pathogens on the human body.
 
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