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How Did Josef Mengele Use Human Experiments

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Josef Mengele had a plan for himself but his parents weren’t a fan. They wanted him to work in the factory but he wanted to study anthropology and science.s Mengele was later accepted into the University of Munich. The Nazi party was very popular in Munich at the time and that is how Mengele was introduced to it. He entered the Nazi party in 1938 but he didn’t go directly into Auschwitz, he was actually drafted into the military. The military did not last long for him though because he got wounded and went back to school to study heredity and genetics. After being wounded he was sent to Auschwitz to do human experiments. These experiments included many horrific means of finding information.
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He tried to transplant limbs, bones, muscle tissue, and nerves without any painkillers. He forced some of his patients to stay in ice baths for up to 3 hours, or force them outside naked in below freezing temperatures, to test effects of hypothermia. He tried to change people’s sexes by taking out reproductive organs and transplant them on to other patients. He tried to make a conjoined twin by sewing their backs together and tried to connect organs and blood vessels. They developed gangrene soon and died. Women were injected with silver hydrate or iodine which causes profuse vaginal bleeding and cervical cancer (“What Were The Josef Mengele Experiments?”)He placed victims into low-pressure chambers and raised the altitude to research altitude sickness to the point of death.He forced them to drink only salt water. He took this to the point that when floors were mopped they would lick off the floor, to test the effects of dehydration …show more content…

Josef Mengele grew up Gunzburg, Germany. He had a wealthy family and a bright future. The only thing that people can come up with for a reason why he would do these things is his mother had a temper, she would often go into the family factory and criticize workers. By no means should this force someone to torture thousands of innocent people.( “Dr. Josef Mengele: The Cruelest Nazi Doctor Of The Holocaust.”). Many serial killers blame their horrific acts on a traumatic happening in their childhood, but Josef didn’t have one. He did these terrible things to people just because he wanted the same thing as Hitler, a so-called “super-race” of Germans(“Dr. Josef Mengele: The Cruelest Nazi Doctor Of The Holocaust.”). Mengele believed that twins were the key to a so-called German lead super

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