Essay on Dr. Mengele

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele nicknamed, “ The Angel of Death” was an experienced doctor that experiments on kids and other people, for example, he injected some serum into a kids eye to see if the eye would change color and most of his experiments didn't have any anesthesia so his patients would feel a lot of pain.

After the war, Josef fled to Argentina. During that time Argentina was a safe haven for Nazi soldiers. During his time there, Mengele changed his identity and struggled to find a safe place to live. He moved from country, to country in constant fear of being caught in South America. He was well aware that there were bounties and war crimes on his head.

Mengele. Dr. Mengele was a German officer at Auschwitz and was often referred to as the “Angel of Death” (Gutman, 2). He is known for his horribly unethical experiments performed on prisoners and immense number of bodies killed in Auschwitz. Mengele treated the majority of his patients ruthlessly, with no remorse, and as objects for his destruction. He was also known for his bad temper and was seen beating prisoners with metal poles, burning them alive, and shooting them. The only patients he treated less horrifically were twins, which he found to be enticing. Mengele would provide them with clean clothes and regular meals in order to strengthen them, and once they were healthy he would perform horrific surgeries on them (Schmittroth, 315). How Dr. Mengele treated the prisoners in Auschwitz would have an extensive influence on the difficulties they had

His experiments were vicious and are considered crimes in every sense of the word. Josef Mengele did experiments on twins because the their genetic makeup was the same, so every change would be considered an environmental one. He would use twins to compare and contrast the effects of certain chemicals.When one of the twins died, they would both be executed and then dissected it for differentiation.A mass murder he once committed in which he killed 14 patients in one night and spent hours performing autopsies on them. Josef Mengele was a person with a quick temper and he once sended 600 women to be killed in the gas chambers because there was a spread of typhus in a block cell. As other examples of a war crimes done by Josef Mengele he stitched a pair of twins together, gouged out the eyes of patients, vivisected some of the children that had affection towards him and sawed off the head of infected prisoners to send them of to study.

Mengele called the experiments sessions. “After one of these sessions, she developed a high fever and swelling in her arms and legs, and Mengele put her in ‘the hospital’ which was actually a place to keep victims who were expected to die” (Wells). The people that were sent to ‘the hospital’ weren’t given food or water. They also weren’t given medications either. “If she had died, her sister would have been killed so the Nazi’s could perform an autopsy and compare the twins in death, too” (Wells). One of Mengele’s experiments consisted of “Gypsy twins who had been taken away for surgery returned joined at the back” (Wells). Mengele had tried to join the twins by attaching the boys and joining blood vessels together. The boys ended up dying three days later. “Out of 1,500 sets of twins subjected to the Mengele experiments, fewer than 200 individuals survived” (Wells). The experiments had a negative effect on the survivor’s health later on. “The experiment’s permanently stunted the growth of Miriam Mozes’ kidney’s, Kor said, and in 1985 she developed a rare form of cancer probably attributed to the experiments. She died in 1987” (Wells). Kor never forgave the Nazi’s or Dr. Mengele for what they had done until several years

One of Adolf Hitler’s main points throughout his book was how Germans are superior to every other race and how Nazi’s should be in complete power. He believed that the Aryan race was perfect, and even encouraged women to bear as many children of this race as they could. He even goes to the extent where he describes what the perfect person looks like, which consisted of pale skin, blue eyes, etc. With this, he concluded that Jews and Gypsies were the most racially inferior with full plans to eliminate them. Writing this book while in jail, being incarcerated for trying to seize southern Germany, he must have been extremely confident

Disabled Germans were killed in gassings. Midwives, physicians, and guardians of children with severe birth defects were supposed to register the defected child while three expert physicians would decide whether the child lived or died, usually not even seeing the child in person. This was all part to create the “master Aryan race.” 5,000 children were killed in the clinics and state hospitals they were brought to once registered. The Nazis wanted to keep the Euthanasia Program (the program Hitler was using to kill these helpless children) a secret, so the Nazis sent the children’s families made up ways of how their child died. In October of 1939, Hitler started Operation T-4, which was where adult men and women who were “incurable” were moved to carbon monoxide chambers and gassed. 70,000 of these innocent people were lost (Final Solutions).

(Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) “The “Law against overcrowding in German schools and Universities” restricted the number of Jewish children in Jewish schools. (www.projetaladin.org) The “Law against overcrowding in German schools and universities”, affected the Jewish children and their friends. (www.projetaladin.org) The children started to loose relationships and became distant from friends. (www.projetaladin.org) When the children entered the camps, Dr. Herta Oberhauser would kill children with oils. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) “She had killed then with evipan injections as well.” (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) Just like Oberhauser, Mengele would inject the children too. Mengele would inject them with chloroform into the children’s hearts. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) After Mengele was done with the children, he would kill them himself with no shame or hesitation. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) Out of all of the children in the Holocaust, 1,000,000 children died. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) These children died from ways that you may not even be able to imagine.

His obsession with twins made him play a huge part in the conductions of experiments in the means for genetic manipulation that fascinated many Nazis. As a chief physician at Auschwitz, Dr. Mengele was given the power to pursue his research and made it worth his while. “Thus, he reasoned, could Europe’s population be controlled and genetically engineered to perfection. Aryan perfection. In his Auschwitz laboratory, Mengele conducted some of the most heinous experiments of the war.

Born into a wealthy family, he was also brought up strictly Catholic. Dr. Mengele, full name Joseph Rudolf Mengele, was given the nickname ‘The Angel of Death’ for a reason. Mengele chose to study philosophy in the city of Munich and he also entered radical ideology from Alfred Rosenberg. When he was 20, he joined the Stahlhelm, and then in 1933 he chose to apply for SA and party membership. Once he was accepted into the Nazi party, he was labeled the chief doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp. He studies at the University of Frankfurt and joined the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in 1934. (History.co) The name ‘Angel of Death’ from his extraordinary experiments, which had taken place in the form many different methods. Methods such as pressure chambers, castration, drugs and freezing were popular. (Louis Bülow) Many had cause fatality from the bizarre actions that had taken place. He had a fascination with twins. Mengele focused on children for his experimentation. He would be extra kind to them, make them trust him. This made the children listen to him, thinking that they would get something good out of it such as food or toys. The children, especially twins, did not know what was ahead of them. They didn’t know the ‘objectives’ of his experiments. Mengele has a pathology lab where he performed autopsies on the dead twins that had been built next to the crematorium. As for

It was here where he further research on racial differences, mentally disabled, anomalies of giants, dwarfs, hunchbacks, and other deformities. He also conducted gruesome experiments on his patients at Auschwitz. Josef Mengele soon was known as “The Angel of Death”, and after the end of the war, it was found that he himself killed over 400,000 of Auschwitz’s inmates. Some inmates of Auschwitz recalled Josef’s time there as, “ He made Auschwitz a nightmarish world unto itself” (Cefrey 63). After the war, Mengele led a very different

Thesis: From his early life to his insane experiments, Josef Mengele is a perfect model of the evils humans are capable of.

It is said that Mengele “knew exactly why they were there and how killing Jews could advance their careers.” (Wistrich 229) With this being said, there is no doubt as to why survivors and governments have tried to track down Dr. Mengele for countless years after the war. However, is it possible that there might have been a soft side to this man? After all, some twins did call him “Uncle Mengele”; he had to care for them at least a little bit to make sure that they stay alive, even if for his evil necessities. “Yet even Mengele, a music

The act of Dr. Josef Mengele as a human act were evaluated, and we can truly and completely identity it as bad/evil. For a human act to be good, both the objective/purpose and the intention of the person should be good. If one or both of it would be evil, it is considered as a bad human act. Both of the purpose and intention of Dr. Mengele were both evil, so the result of his actions were evil. Many people have suffered under him just to satisfy his curiosity and to complete his experiments. He has no mercy, especially to all the twins he had experimented.