The Cruelty of Dr. Mengele and the Nazis Jenkins 1 Dr. Josef Mengele was a Nazi scientist at Auschwitz concentration camp, where he performed horrible Experiments on innocent people. One of Dr. Mengele?s main interests was twins. He performed many experiment on them. Most of them involving injecting one twin with lethal chemicals or viruses making them really sick. Then usually died within a few weeks. (Rees 180) One case was with Eva Moses Kor and her twin sister Miriam, who were Jewish concentration camp prisoners in Auschwitz. Eva was injected with a virus that made her extremely sick. She tried to hide the fact that she was sick, but unfortunately her attempts failed. She was sent to building 21 where she received no food, water, …show more content…
(George 87) Since the day he arrived in Auschwitz, on May 24, 1943 (Gilbert 581) he was cruel and full of hatred. He used his position to torture and kill innocent people. He hid behind the pursuit of knowledge to justify his actions. The inmates refered to him as ?The Angel of Death?. (George 87) Over the course of a year and a half Dr. Mengele took part in at least seventy four selections of prisoners for either the gas chamber, medical experiments, or work detail. (Gilbert 582) Nazi experiments became a very common thing in concentration camps. Nazi scientists experimented on human subjects who were prisoners in the camp. Many of these experiments were excruciatingly painful, and almost all caused people to die. Many became extremely ill and had to fight off illness alone since the SS wouldn?t treat them. Survivors suffered from complications later on in life. Many were diagnosed with terminal illnesses like cancer, tuberculosis, ect. One of the worst experiments was the salt water experiment. During this experiment polish prisoners were given only salt water to drink. This caused people to become severely dehydrated, have massive organ failure, and hallucinate. Some people became so desperate for fresh water they would lick the floors that were freshly mopped just so they could hydrate themselves. Most people died within a few days from organ Failure.
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 had studied Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics. While working in Auschwitz, he had worked with identical and fraternal twins to trace the genetic origin of various diseases along with other experiments (“Josef Mengele” Holocaust Encyclopedia). Most officers or German task force had a hard time with this job, but Josef Mengele did not (Minster). He enjoyed separating those on the ramp and would often appear “off duty” searching through the crowd looking for twins to experiment on (“Josef Mengele” Holocaust Encyclopedia). He always had a reason for what he did. More horrific experiments included Mengele injecting chloroform into a set of twin’s hearts and it killing them instantly. He would then dissect the bodies and look at the genetic structures. Dr. Josef Mengele had also sown twins together to make Siamese Twins (“Angel of Death”). There are photos and documentation that proves that this was an experiment he did perform and was very unsuccessful. Approximately three thousand twins passed through
In the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Natzweiler, more than seven hundred prisoners were subjected to the typhus experiments. Not only did these two camps run experiments for typhus but also for diseases such as yellow fever, smallpox, cholera and many more. The typhus experiments were very repugnant in the way that doctors would kill people just to keep the disease still intact with them. They had prisoners known as ‘passage persons’ who acted like capsules for the diseases. The doctors would use these people to take their blood and inject it in others. “They
This is not the limit of the horrors in Auschwitz. Auschwitz I was the site of horrifying medical experimentation on Jewish and Roma prisoners. Some experimentations included castration, sterilisation and testing how contagious diseases affected them. SS captain Dr Josef Mengele, the infamous “Angel of Death,” was one of the physicians practicing here. His favorite area of study was experimenting on twins.
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.
Acts of a Perpetrator, Josef Mengele To be a perpetrator, usually you are mean, or evil to ones around you, such as in the Holocaust; the Nazi’s were perpetrators. Josef Mengele is an SS Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz who fulfilled his role as a perpetrator, who seemed to enjoy being a brutal man. He had to have been an emotionally strong man, to send prisoners to meet their last breath, face to face. In the historical event of the “Holocaust”, Josef Mengele shares his experiences of providing life or death for the prisoners.
It was here where he further research on racial differences, mentally disabled, anomalies of giants, dwarfs, hunchbacks, and other deformities. He also conducted gruesome experiments on his patients at Auschwitz. Josef Mengele soon was known as “The Angel of Death”, and after the end of the war, it was found that he himself killed over 400,000 of Auschwitz’s inmates. Some inmates of Auschwitz recalled Josef’s time there as, “ He made Auschwitz a nightmarish world unto itself” (Cefrey 63). After the war, Mengele led a very different
The horrific events of the Holocaust are remembered with tragedy and shame by many. However, beyond the concentration camps and gas chambers, many prisoners suffered an even darker fate. During the Holocaust, many cruel and inhumane experiments were conducted on the prisoners taken by Nazi Germany. These experiments included testing dangerous drugs and sterilization methods on prisoners, and exposing them to gasses and poisons to develop antidotes. Other experiments included freezing them to the brink of death just to reheat them again, as well as other bizarre and torturous experiments performed on twins.
Some of these camps also had facilities for scientific research, where men like Josef Mengle, also known as "The Angel of Death", performed barbaric medical experiments on twins, dwarfs, and other genetically different people in advancing and breeding the so-called "Aryan" race of perfect Germans for Hitler.
An estimated 1.1- 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz. The reason for the range in numbers is because the people who were marked as unfit were never registered, instead taken straight to the gas chambers. Gas chambers were the most frequently used killing device. Zyklon-B gas was used in them to slowly kill the prisoners. Corpse cellars and crematory ovens are other devices used to kill them. Dr. Josef Mengele, nicknamed "Angel of Death," performed medical experiments on some prisoners beginning in 1943. Some of these experiments include shooting serum into twins hearts to see if they would die of the same systems and at the same rate. The killing of prisoners was not something other prisoners cried about, instead it was just apart of life in the concentration
From “the ramp” many adults and children are chosen to be a part of experiments. Josef Mengele became known as the “Angel of Death”, because of his interest to do experiments on twins. He used the twins to figure out a way to preserve the (blond hair blue eyed) Aryans, otherwise known as the perfect race in Hitler’s eyes. Carl Clauberg did experiments on women. With these women he closed their fallopian tubes with a chemical irritant. Many other SS physicians used prisoners to test tolerance and effectiveness of new medical preparations and/or drugs. To cover their tracks often victims were either killed by lethal injections to the heart or sent to gas chambers.
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
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