Josef Mengele Hero

Many brutal atrocities were committed during the Holocaust by the Nazi party against anyone they viewed as “unpure”. This included the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Afro-Germans, Slavs, communists, the handicapped, and the mentally disabled. These groups were targeted, stripped away of their rights and citizenship, and then sent to concentration camps. Some of these camps were death camps; created for the sole purpose to annihilate these groups of people, mainly the Jews. At these camps, the prisoners were tortured, starved, brutally killed, and experimented on. In this research paper, I am going to discuss some of the medical experiments that were

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

During the holocaust prisoners of concentration camps were faced with evil, torture and death every day. Some of the prisoners in these camps were selected for Nazi medical experiments. Nazi doctors performed several different human experiments on prisoners throughout the Holocaust. A specifically horrific experiment was the twin experiments. This experiment was performed by Dr. Joseph Mengele and several of his assistants in Auschwitz. He is known for performing some of the most inhumane experiments during the holocaust.

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

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

The Holocaust is arguably one of the biggest genocide in world history when between five and six million Jews were killed. Most were killed by gas or by firing squad or by simply being burned. But some of the Jews were victims of the doctors during the Holocaust. One of the most famous doctors during this time was Dr. Mengele, he was responsible for most of the deaths caused by experiments during the time. His career began at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, where he became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, a leading scientific figure widely known for his research with twins. In 1947 he joined the Nazi party and the next year he joined the SS. He wasn't the only doctor during the time though there

Being a Sonderkommando, Dr. Nyiszli assisted Dr. Mengele with various cruel experiments—such as injecting chemicals in twins’ eyeballs in an attempt to change their eye-color to blue—and felt his fate was pre-determined due to his knowledge of the experiments. Every four months the Sonderkommandos were killed. He writes, “I had the feeling I was already one of the living- dead. I was certain I would never get out alive. Was it conceivable that Dr. Mengele would ever allow me to leave this place alive” (Nyiszli, 65).

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

Those born in Auschwitz were generally killed on the spot, especially if the child was Jewish or of its descent. Though reckless with his harsh dealings, but Joseph Mengele was always careful with his twins. Some survivors even claim and remember Mengele as “a father figure who would give us candy and clothes and tell us to call him Uncle Mengele.” He favored long-drawn out deaths and did not hesitate to experiment with new methods. The psychopath would conduct the most inhumane experiments without any sedatives, such as injections with deadly bacteria, sex change operations, cutting off limbs, and removing organs. He treated his “patients” like animals and ruthlessly did all of this without a single cent of remorse.

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

His cruel accomplishment was achieved by being the main chief provider or the gas chambers, as mentioned in the article by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition, experimentation in individuals added a tremendous amount to the deceased population under Mengele’s supervision. To sad, Josef Mengele ‘’…sent approximately 400,000 people to their deaths in the camps gas chambers, and personally murdered several more…’’ (www. nww.2m.com) . This statistic demonstrates the towering amount of people that Mengele assassinated. Furthermore, proof Mengele was an inhumane person included the fact that he would not only kill his victims, but, leave them in their painful state for more time than necessary. He did this to make sure none of the victims could be alive. As explained, ‘’Although victims died within 15 minutes while in the gas chambers, the SS men routinely waited half an hour before turning on the fans… ‘’ (www.guardian.com). As evident by the information provided, Josef Mengele was truly a monstrous

Mengele had his collection of twins confined in a special block that was specifically for his experiments. The twins’ were often treated better than other Jewish prisoners, he protected his prisoners from harsh labor assignments and made sure that they were always clean, He gave them clean clothes and candy. He allowed the children to call him ‘uncle’ they were known as “Mengele’s Children.” Dr. Mengele was said to be friendly and comforting especially towards the young children. He loved to sit with them and tell stories, he wanted the children to be as comfortable as possible with him, even though he clearly believed that the prisoners were less than human and acted upon that belief.

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

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.

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