How Did Josef Mengele Medical Experiments

Medical experiments were done on many of the prisoners of the concentration camp, but mostly on twins, and dwarfs. The main medical doctor that conducted these experiments was Joseph Mengel who was also known as the "Angle of death." The main types of medical experiments dealt with freezing/hypothermia, genetics, infectious diseases, interrogation, torture, genocide, high altitude, pharmacological, sterilization, surgery, and traumatic injuries.

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

The freezing and hypothermia experiments were tested upon males to test the conditions of the warriors suffered out in the fields. Tons of German soldiers died of freezing temperatures or were paralyzed by cold injuries. They only used healthy men in these experiments, though, because the week men would not be equal to the soldiers.

First, Weisel depicts the conditions that the victims were put through by describing their bodily state when being forced to walk miles. He describes his death march experience as “putting one foot in front of the other” and that he was “dragging ... this skeletal body which weighed so much.” (81). The Auschwitz prisoners were often put through physical abuse, their bodies were often pushed to their limits to such an extent that they no longer felt they were humans, but instead bags of bones. Furthermore, Wiesel tells of his neighbor who was made to do horrifying tasks that would leave mental scars for as long as he lives. He shares a time when his neighbor, Bela Katz was chosen for his strength to “put his father’s body into

The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours, a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The Holocaust also known as Shoah, means a systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews during the WWII by German Nazi. Adolf Hitler the leader of Nazis, who afraid Jews would take power over Germans; also, many Germans felt they were mistreated by the lost so Jews were like a scapegoat from the previous war lose so they can treat them inhumanely (“The Holocaust”). Millions of Jews were sent to the concentration camps around Europe. In there, they were tortured and killed. Many horrible things happened

The ignoble experiments of the nazi regime included exposure to freezing/ hypothermia, tests on the genetics of an individual, exposure to infectious diseases, undergoing of interrogation and torture, most effective and inexpensive methods of killing/ mass genocide, exposure to conditions resembling high altitude, pharmacological tests, sterilization of an individual, the undergoing of different surgeries, and inflicting traumatic injuries on the patent undergoing the experiment. The experiments done by nazis on prisoners were in an effort to find ways to cure burns, hypothermia, infections, and ways to mass exterminate the jews in the most cost efficient way possible.

The Holocaust was a systematic and state-sponsored murder of many Jews. during the Holocaust, During the Holocaust, German authorities targeted all European Jews as the lower class enemy. Some of the major criminals during the Holocaust were Adolf Hitler, who committed suicide by gunshot, Heinrich Himmler, who committed suicide by taking cyanide, and Reinhard Heydrich, who was assassinated. The Holocaust was started by Germans coming to power in 1933 and claimed themselves ¨racially superior¨. Many Holocaust survivors, such as the Mengele Twins, Jacki Handeli, Rita Weiss, and twins Stephanie and Annetta, shared their testimony of what happened to them during this time. Elie Wiesel was a human-rights activist and a Nobel Peace

During World War II, there were many acts of cruelty done towards people seen as unsuitable or worthless to the Nazis. These people included Jew, homosexuals, gypsies, and the handicapped. In this paper, I'm going to describe the medical experiments that were performed on inmates by Nazi doctors during the Holocaust. These experiments include: the twin experiments, the freezing experiments, the seawater experiments, and the bone grafting and nerve experiments.

The Holocaust is a tragic event that took place in Germany, Poland, and many other places. The leader of the Natzies was Aldolf Hitler. He killed between 11-17 million people. Hitler mainly targeted Jews but he also targeted Gypsies, Soliet prisoners of war, Communists, Liberals, Incurables, Jehovahs Witnesses and Homosexuals. Most of hitlers targets got sent to concentration camps where many of them suffered and died.

The doctors would cut off limbs and see if the Jew’s could handle what happened to their body. Josef mengele would do the experiments to twins along with many other doctors they were trying to see how twin were made so they could increase the prefect race faster. Even though these were crude experiments they help german know a whole lot more about the human body and what it can handle and what it can't and the almost found out to make twins but they never did.

Victims were chosen as they got off the train. They were carefully selected based off their build, race, gender, and family. The life they had to suffer through as a part of the experiments was not at all better than those in the concentration camps, if anything, it was worse. They were forced into painful situations, and received nothing. One of the goals of the experiments was to sterilize people who would not produce the perfect off springs. One way that was done was through X-rays. People were put to X-ray machines, and they were turned on. The X-rays would cause serious burns and swelling, but they were forced to go back to work regardless.(3) They forced to people who were what they wanted to get sterilized in a painful fashion, then forced them to continue on hard, strenuous work. This seriously hurt some, and helped to the overall deaths of people in the concentration camps, and the systematic destruction of entire groups of people. As one person recounts in his experience that man man came and, “He distributed various desserts to us children. After a couple of hours, we realized that something was not in order with the food. I got really sick and suffered from cramps, I threw up, had diarrhea, the chills and fever. Many died as a consequence of this poisoned food.”(4). The people had been starved, and then they received poison food

As people were forced in through the gates of Auschwitz and up the ramp, twins were separated from the masses and set to the side for Mengele’s research. Mengele’s twins were kept in a special separate house block where they would stay and be examined by him and the doctors who assisted him. When the examinations were completed, most subjects were killed and their organs were autopsied and analyzed so that more information about their genes could be

The experiments were inhuman and brutal, as were most other conducts of the Nazis. Dr. Mengele often sewed together the twins connecting ones upper torso to the others. If one of any of the twins dies the other would be immediately killed with a medical shot injected into the heart. Promptly after joint autopsies would be performed

Specific purpose: To inform the audience about Josef Mengele, a doctor in Auschwitz and a psychological quandary.

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).