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
The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.
Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, spent 30 years on the run from officials and was never caught(“After”). Josef Mengele was a German doctor. He conducted experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. He was also a war criminal after the ending of the war. Josef Mengele intensified WWII in many ways, and this will be shown through his life, in Auschwitz, and in South America.
At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele nicknamed, “ The Angel of Death” was an experienced doctor that experiments on kids and other people, for example, he injected some serum into a kids eye to see if the eye would change color and most of his experiments didn't have any anesthesia so his patients would feel a lot of pain.
Josef Mengele, a demoralized Nazi doctor and scientist is known for his frightful human experiments during the holocaust. Mengele generally studied and examined twin children and other human experimentation. Due to these events, Josef Mengele's nickname was "The Angel of Death".
Mengele. Dr. Mengele was a German officer at Auschwitz and was often referred to as the “Angel of Death” (Gutman, 2). He is known for his horribly unethical experiments performed on prisoners and immense number of bodies killed in Auschwitz. Mengele treated the majority of his patients ruthlessly, with no remorse, and as objects for his destruction. He was also known for his bad temper and was seen beating prisoners with metal poles, burning them alive, and shooting them. The only patients he treated less horrifically were twins, which he found to be enticing. Mengele would provide them with clean clothes and regular meals in order to strengthen them, and once they were healthy he would perform horrific surgeries on them (Schmittroth, 315). How Dr. Mengele treated the prisoners in Auschwitz would have an extensive influence on the difficulties they had
When Hitler came to power, things changed in Europe. Adolf spread Concentration camps around Europe. He used a system for the killings. The prisoners could get shot to death, buried alive, sent to crematorium, or sent to the gas chambers. Most of this happened in Auschwitz. Josef Mengele selected prisoners for the gas chambers in Auschwitz. He also would do cruel experiments on prisoners (mainly twins). He was called the Angel of Death for his cruel and disgusting experiments. “He enlisted in the Nazi stormtroopers in 1993 and joined the newly founded institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene the next year.” (Mengele
Mengele called the experiments sessions. “After one of these sessions, she developed a high fever and swelling in her arms and legs, and Mengele put her in ‘the hospital’ which was actually a place to keep victims who were expected to die” (Wells). The people that were sent to ‘the hospital’ weren’t given food or water. They also weren’t given medications either. “If she had died, her sister would have been killed so the Nazi’s could perform an autopsy and compare the twins in death, too” (Wells). One of Mengele’s experiments consisted of “Gypsy twins who had been taken away for surgery returned joined at the back” (Wells). Mengele had tried to join the twins by attaching the boys and joining blood vessels together. The boys ended up dying three days later. “Out of 1,500 sets of twins subjected to the Mengele experiments, fewer than 200 individuals survived” (Wells). The experiments had a negative effect on the survivor’s health later on. “The experiment’s permanently stunted the growth of Miriam Mozes’ kidney’s, Kor said, and in 1985 she developed a rare form of cancer probably attributed to the experiments. She died in 1987” (Wells). Kor never forgave the Nazi’s or Dr. Mengele for what they had done until several years
Joseph Mengele is the angle of death he is a scientist that did experiments on people. He killed a lot of innocent people. One experiment was him injecting people with gasoline. After the war he was escorted to Argentina with some SS people. He live there for a while then moved to South America. Then he found a refugee soldier from the war and took his identity.(Josef Mengele) https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060
Josef Mengele. He originally was part of the nazi party and was gonna be a soldier, but then he decided that he was gonna join the SS and be a doctor. That’s when his real career began, he started by treating the people of Auschwitz. But he wasn't the only physician at the camp, he was joined by doctor Eduard Wirths. In an article about Josef it talks about what he did before he was the chief camp physician “Mengele began his career at Auschwitz in the spring of 1943 as the medical officer responsible for Birkenau's “Gypsy camp”(ushmm)” . It only took Mengele a little while till he started using his power has chief physician to do experiments on the people. He would put chemicals and solutions in his body and see how they would react to it. He was famous for his research with twins, he would inspect the twins in order to trace the genetic origins of various diseases. He was never scared of killing his patients because he knew that he would always have more to “play” with, in an article about him it says “At Auschwitz, with full license to maim or kill his subjects, Mengele performed a broad range of agonizing and often lethal experiments with Jewish and Gypsy twins, most of them children(ushmm)”.He earned the name “Angel of Death” or “White Angel” because he was responsible for killing so many people through his
Josef Mengele would perform many of his gruesome experiments mostly on twins, but also children. Dr. Josef Mengele wanted twins, for “medical research”, and the kids were younger or older than five years old (“Josef Mengele”). Then were murdered after the experiments was over and their bodies were dissected. Dr. Josef Mengele would collect the eyes of his murdered twins, and children. Since Dr. Josef Mengele was fascinated with heterochromia which was one eye color being different from the other one, Dr. Mengele would insert chemicals into the eyes of children to try to change their eye color from one to another. Dr. Josef Mengele performed twin to twin transfusion. Not only did Dr. Mengele do that but he also stitched twins together like siamese twins. To top it all of Dr. Josef Mengele castrated, and sterilized twins. To castrate a person means to remove their private areas. Many twins had their organs, and limbs removed in surgeries without any anesthesia. (“The Angel of Death.”) Dr. Josef Mengele performed a lot on twins to trace the genetic origin of various diseases. (“Josef Mengele”). Chloroform would be injected into the twins hearts so that the twins could die instantly, and Dr. Josef could dissect them piece, by piece. (“ The Angel of
Josef Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death” and he was an S.S physician during the Holocaust in the concentration camps in Auschwitz. Dr. Mengele’s work was said to be gruesome and inhumane by his subjects. Josef Mengele, S.S physician in Auschwitz, performed a variety of experiments like creating twins, mass sterilization, practicing heterochromia which subjects resulted in death.
a. Attention Getter: Josef Mengele, Angel of Death, the man that ordered the death of around 1.6 million people. Men, women, old, or young, no one was an exception. At the point of a finger they were sent to the gas chambers. Prisoners learned quickly that he was someone whose orders were to be followed without argument. Names such as Lord of Life and Death, Dr. Auschwitz and even God were commonly used by
A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion is a true Patriot. Josef Mengele thought that what he was doing was patriotic for his country. Mengele from early life, to military, to the time at Auschwitz was cruel and disgusting. What Josef Mengele thought to be an evolution in human genetics leading to the massacre of thousands of Jewish and gypsum citizens: proving that Mengele was a disgusting person who was finally stopped by true American patriots.
However, this man who exhibited a sense of strength and fierceness to his victims was neither physically or emotionally strong. He was very insecure about his physical appearance, and constantly thought people were out to get him. He felt he had to belittle others accomplishments in order to make himself feel more confident. Mengele especially hated gypsies, and viewed them as more of a subspecies than other groups he killed. The following passage, which comes from Mengele’s arrest warrant, which detailed his heinous crimes, illustrates his disregard for their lives:
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)