Before you know it, you are standing in front of the man with the baton. Which way will he point, left or right. Those were the thoughts of many jews as they came face to face with the famed Dr. Mengele. Dr. Mengele alone killed over 600,000 jews. Other than Hitler initiating the genocide and being responsible for the deaths, Dr. Mengele by far sentenced the most jews to death. Dr. Mengele was by far the most feared SS Officer in the death camp of Auschwitz. His fellow Officers and inmates even gave him the nickname of the “The Angel of death”. As soon as Jews from all parts of Europe arrived at the platform, the first selection began. Men to the left, women and children to the right, and as they “arrived at the platform, they shouted for women …show more content…
Elie never saw his mother and sister again (Wiesel 32). Dr. Mengele was almost always in charge of these selections. He preferred to have one every two weeks. Jews were immediately ordered to “[continue] walking until [they] came to a crossroads. There, standing in the middle of it, though [they] didn't know it then, was Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele” (Wiesel 34). Selection involved looking at a jews physical stature and taking note of their age and profession. If a Jew was a craftsman, he often lived a better life than the others. However if a jew was old and frail, he was sent to the gas chamber. For many of the Jews, when they first arrived at Auschwitz, they had no idea what was going on. Many arrived and were “told to line up and be evaluated” (wiesel 31). However, many veteran prisoners would tell newcomers just what to say and do to survive. When lined up, “a kapo told my father and I to say we were 16 and 38” (wiesel 31). At this first and confusing selection, although they didnt know it, it was the last time families saw each other. For the most part, men and teens were sentenced to work while women, children,
This Monday, Elie Wiesel was taken on a train to the Birkenau concentration camp, with all of his family, as well as many other people from his Jewish town of Sighet, on board. As Elie walked out of the train, he was led to two paths. An SS Officer told him, “Men to the left! Woman to the right!” When asked about what he felt about the words, Elie told us, “Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple short words. Yet that was the moment I left my mother.” These words separated Elie and his father from his mother and three sisters. All of these Jews were led to another crossroads, where the left was the labor camp, and the right was the gas chamber. In the middle stood the infamous Dr. Mengele. Dr. Mengele is a well
An infant was ripped from its mother’s womb and hurled into an oven at a German concentration camp named Auschwitz because it was not a twin. Another was killed by his own mother rather than letting it suffer in an experiment. Hundreds of thousands innocents were mercilessly sent to gas chambers where they met their death. The name of the evil and mad person responsible is Joseph Mengele, who was first a student, then a war hero, and finally an Auschwitz doctor. His birth on March 16, 1911, was one millions wished never happened. As the eldest son of a well-to-do Bavarian industrialist, he was expected to carry on the family business and run his father’s company in Germany. However, Joseph took the non-traditional
A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion is a true Patriot. Josef Mengele thought that what he was doing was patriotic for his country. Mengele from early life, to military, to the time at Auschwitz was cruel and disgusting. What Josef Mengele thought to be an evolution in human genetics leading to the massacre of thousands of Jewish and gypsum citizens: proving that Mengele was a disgusting person who was finally stopped by true American patriots.
I bet when we were kidś sitting by a campfire, have you ever thought of a scary story to say to folks, well here's one that will blow your mind? This story is about hate, guilt and just messed up. Josef Mengele was one of those people that looked innocent, he was not. He did some terrible things.
Josef Mengele, a hero of the Nazis for his breakthrough discoveries and service as a soldier, was additionally a heartless individual that performed countless experiments on the young victims of the war. To being raised in a wealthy family and succeeding early on in his life, he became such an evil man terrorizing his victims beyond reality. Josef Mengele’s childhood and education contributed to his joining of the Nazi Party. Despite his career and horrific experimentations being disturbing, he delivered valuable knowledge about the scientific world. Auschwitz was and is recognized as a place where many horrors occurred by Mengele’s barbaric efforts in the name of science. All in all, Josef Mengele was a heartless physician who enjoyed causing
without the women knowing (282). To put it another way not a single prisoner was asked permission of experimentation (277). Although the death camps were specifically for experimentation and the killing off of Jews some prisoners would get lucky if they had a certain ability such as nursing or medical experience. Some prisoners would lie about their experience just to get out of experiments and their certain death (278). As the prisoners filed in, being asked questions of whether or not they had any experience in medicine, what their race was and any other questions soldiers may ask them, there would be yelling and screaming and the occasional gunfire from a soldier to the body of an uncooperative prisoner. Yet some readers may challenge the view that this was to keep order, while others may think this is just an easier way to get rid of weak races (285).
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911. Josef was the oldest of three sons in his Bavarian family, and they were strictly Catholic. He was popular and smart in his town. He went on to study philosophy, medicine, physical anthropology, hereditary biology, and racial hygiene. He became an assistant to Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who was a leading scientific figure.
There were many doctors in concentration camps during World War II, but no one can top what Josef Mengele did to the people. Killing over thousands of people, Doctor Mengele did things like freezing their bodies, gassing, giving shots in their eyes, and so many more. Even though his experiments were harsh, it helped us advance in our genetics research today. Doctor Mengele killed lots of men, women, and kids during his experiments, though his main focus was on experiments and research related to twins.
As one should know the Holocaust was a horrific event that was completely unjustified, but will soon know what exactly made it so heart wrenching. Josef Mengele was a well known doctor, nicknamed “The Angel of Death” during the Holocaust. From his early beginnings, his horrific medical experiments in Auschwitz, and his life after the War World II, he will always be thought of as a diabolical human being.
The most infamous experiments at Auschwitz were conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele who wanted to prove the superiority of the Aryan race. Jews were deported and placed into concentration camps where families were torn apart and were placed through medical screenings before entering. Accepted prisoners became workers and “lab rats” to the German doctors at the concentration camps meanwhile defective prisoners were sent to the gas chambers or shooting squad. Without consent, these prisoners underwent the medical experiments that would scar the history of the world. The Germans rationalized their actions by stating that they were to create and preserve the pure Aryan race. This began the idea of mass sterilization of Germans and Jews. It was proposed
A famous quote says “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” This quote was from a man named Josef Mengele. He first started out as a German Officer in the military (Minster). He then became a doctor who was stationed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was nicknamed “The Angel of Death” (“Josef Mengele” Holocaust Encyclopedia). He was called this because when those that arrived were separated into two different groups, those that would work and those put into gas chambers. Josef Mengele and other SS officers had to work here. He was known to be cold and very cruel on this ramp. He worked in this position no more than any other officer. During the Holocaust, Dr. Josef Mengele performed numerous acts of torture on Jews. He was very comfortable with the killing and torment on these people. The Jews were tormented and ridiculed by German forces. Many were killed and those that survived lived with hatred
Between the years 1939 and 1945 over seven thousands medical experiments, being both cruel and or lethal took place. These victims would include jews, political prisoners, soviet union prisoners, homosexuals and catholic priests. One of these doctors were Joseph Mengele. It is said that Mengele believed that prisoners were not human and on many occasions, murdered the prisoners either but a gunshot or a lethal injection. Mengele studied the prisoners in many areas. One of which was his curiosity to change the eye color, only to result in pain and infection. Mengele was also experimenting on prisoners that were dwarves and twins. All of the prisoners he experimented on suffered from mass amount of pain. At the end of World War II, Mengele became
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911. In his early years, Mengele was intelligent and popular in his hometown. He studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Munich (Compton’s by Britannica). Mengele joined a right-wing, nationalistic organization. He was an early Nazi enthusiast, and enlisted with the SA in 1933. In January 1937, at the University of Frankfurt, he became the assistant to Dr. von Verschuer (Compton’s by Britannica).
Did Josef Mengele use his knowledge and experiments in the wrong way? Josef Mengele was a scientist and a doctor. He was given the nickname “The Angel of Death” as a result of his experiments (“How Josef Mengele Became”). From a human viewpoint, it is easy to see that his experiments were bad and good. Josef Mengele, as well as other doctors, only performed these experiments to bring out good data to supply Nazi Germany with.
[summary] No matter the Nazi they thought they were doing what was right, what their country needed. Mengele helped us learn a lot of things about twins and others, not in the best way, but we are now more educated about the human body and twins. Still, no matter the Nazi they were all