A mad-scientist by definition is “a stock character in popular fiction; a bubbling scientist working on unlikely ways to save the world, or a villainous one best on destroying it.” (“mad…”). We were raised hearing the story of Frankenstein and his monster, but what if mad-scientists were in fact real. Many people see Joseph Mengele as a ruthless murderer, but he actually had a whole lot to do with the survival of individuals every day. Many don’t give him the credit of his findings because it was done under eerie circumstances, but without Mengele we would not have the information we have today about the human body. Josef Mengele was the most influential mad-scientist of modern medicine. Josef Mengele was raised in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany …show more content…
He moved through the ranks and earned multiple awards including the Iron Cross First class, Black Badge for the Wounded, and Medal for the care of German people. To earn these awards, he saved two German soldiers from a burning tank then only a few months later was seriously injured and deemed unfit for service (“Josef Mengele”). This may have been seen as an end, but really it was a new beginning. Mengele gained a great amount of knowledge while in the war, and left with the desire to solve the problems the soldiers faced every …show more content…
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Sometimes in life people are the same as you. Sometimes people are so much alike that they don't like each other. Although, we are created to be our own person sometimes people are like us in many ways. In Richard Connell's short story "The most dangerous game" and Saki's short story "The Interlopers," the main character General Zaroff and which Von Gradwitz are alike in the following ways; both men hunted on their own land, both men hunted humans, and both men died. Zaroff and Gradwitz had their own land that they hunted on.
He goined the nazi party in 1937 and the ss in 1938. He liked twins he liked to do stuff to one then studie how it affected them. Most people he tested usually died and if they weren't yet dead. They would be in a lot of pain. The expirements were harsh and brutal. (Josef Mengele) https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” This quote by Josef Mengele speaks to his time spent as part of the Holocaust. Historically, many may also know him as the Angel of Death. He is infamous for the inhumane experiments he did on the Jewish children during the Holocaust.
Mengele marked the lives of many prisoners in Auschwitz. His attempt to “increase the production of the German race” by any means necessary caused him to conduct experiments on twins. “There were moments when his death mask gave way to a more animated expression, when Mengele came alive. There was excitement in his eyes, a tender touch in his hands. This was the moment when Josef Mengele, the geneticist, found a pair of twins.”
In 1937, after the rise of the Nazi party Josef Mengele exceeded in the SS with a medical degree. He soon was drafted into the army to fight in WW2, but was injured and not suitable for combat.
Dr. Clauberg developed a method of mass sterilization. It used a chemical irritant that produced severe inflammation. This caused the fallopian tubes to shut and close. Some of his experiments killed his subjects. Others were put to death so an autopsy could be performed. Dr. Mengele would pick a pair of twins or someone with a physical handicap and conduct painful and exhausting examinations. They could last for hours and were terrifying for children. Photographs, casts of teeth and jaws, and fingerprints and toe prints were taken from the subjects. Once the examinations were over, Dr. Mengele ordered the twins to death by lethal injection. He would then move on to the next phase, analysis of internal organs at autopsy. Interesting specimen were preserved and shipped to the Institute in Berlin-Dahlem for more
Joseph Mengele joined the Nazi party in 1937, a year later he became an SS. He volunteered his medical
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
During the postwar, Mengele was detained by allied forces until they released him. He would continue to move across the continent until his captors were got closer to him. He gained access to a “Red Cross passport in 1949 and escaped to South America, where he spent 30 years traveling through Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.” He would steal other Nazi member's identities in which he would always elude the authorities. He would travel “….under a host of fake names: Fritz Fischer, Walter Hasek, Dr. Helmut Gregor-Gregori, José Aspiazi, Friedrich Edler von Breitenbach, Dr. Henrique Wollmann and, finally, Wolfgang Gerhard.” While in running, Mengele did not see he was wanted for his war crimes. Even as the courts wanted to have justice many of his
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
Josef Mengele was a physician that worked in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He was interested in experimenting on twins, Gypsies, dwarves, giants, and those that had physical abnormalities such as heterochromia, or a club foot [1]. Mengele would conduct pseudo-scientific experiments on his test subjects. He was a part of the ensemble of doctors that decided who would be sent to the gas chambers upon their arrival to Auschwitz. Most of these were pregnant women, the elderly, and children[2].
17. “Dr. Mengele had the air of a man who took great satisfaction in his work and was pleased with his calling.” Wrote one inmate.
Throughout the Holocaust Years, and shortly afterwards, there was a man that struck fear in the people imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – “the Angel of Death”. He was a man who showed up for selections with a demeanor that made one think he was handsome and debonair yet, one could not possibly think of the monstrosities that he committed during World War II. Even more disturbing is that “wherever he sprang up, Death spread its shadow.” (Wiesel xix)
Hitler used propaganda to help get people to follow what he believed. He would tell them things to scare them and let them hear what they wanted to hear until he got into power then he turned right around on them. When he got put in power he hired someone to keep up with his propaganda for him. That person controlled what people could practice, read, listen to, watch, and draw. They controlled what religion you were allowed to have but during Hitlers time you could not practice a religion because he was antireligious. Anyone who practice religion would be killed or worked to death. Hitler eventually put fear in everyone; people were hiding everywhere they could like in the book Ann Frank they hid in a room behind a bookcase because they were Jewish and did not want to be killed, but someone told on them and they ended up being sent to camps ("Propaganda"). "I'm trying to imagine what a Jewish state ought to look like, priest should be confined to their temples in the same way that soldiers should be confined to their barracks" (Herzi ¶16).
“A Stranger in this Century”: An Analysis of Sexuality in Gothic Literature of the Nineteenth Century Demonstrated in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe is regarded as the father of the short story with a dark romantic style rooted in the Gothic mode. Gothic fiction of the nineteenth century was about “reaching into some undefinable world beyond fictional reality” (Haggerty 10) in order to comment and critique the society in which the author lived in. This concept suggests that sexuality was used within the Gothic as an attempt to “rewrite the psychic reality” (10) in order to shift the “range and complexity of cultural control” (10) as a means to challenge the status quo and to expand upon Gothic’s own influence