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Josef Mengele Research Paper

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Stationed in Auschwitz “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing.” This was spoken a head doctor to his Jewish inmates at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. He’s quite important in history, because of the countless deaths he authorized. Josef Mengele, “Angel of death,” greatly impacted history because of his participation in selection, his ruthless experiments and the killing of Jews. Josef Mengele’s choice in selection in Auschwitz, the concentration camp, didn’t go unnoticed Jews found it very scary to have such a calm man direct them to their deaths. Josef Mengele arrived in Auschwitz on May 24, 1943, when he was 32. There he spent 21 months and was appointed as the chief physician. He also helped with the selection decided which Jews died and which lived. He directed them left to die and right to live with a cane in his gloved hand. Directing people to their death with such a serious face was one of the reasons he got the name “Angel of Death.” The only person that was directed left and survived was …show more content…

Usually, he conducted experiments on people’s abnormal features. Thousands of Jews were injected for his “experiments.” Mainly he injected people with two different colored eyes. He studied and dissected twins and removed organs from healthy people just to see what happened. Many died from experiments while others were murdered, but when he wasn’t experimenting on them he was nice. He was especially kind to the children, he would give them more food and candy and better clothing plus joke with them. Also the “Mengele kids” never got beaten by guards or forced to work. He encouraged kids to call him Uncle Mengele. Josef Mengele thought he would find something “groundbreaking” that he could

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