Research Paper On Mengele

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.

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

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

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

(Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) “The “Law against overcrowding in German schools and Universities” restricted the number of Jewish children in Jewish schools. (www.projetaladin.org) The “Law against overcrowding in German schools and universities”, affected the Jewish children and their friends. (www.projetaladin.org) The children started to loose relationships and became distant from friends. (www.projetaladin.org) When the children entered the camps, Dr. Herta Oberhauser would kill children with oils. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) “She had killed then with evipan injections as well.” (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) Just like Oberhauser, Mengele would inject the children too. Mengele would inject them with chloroform into the children’s hearts. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) After Mengele was done with the children, he would kill them himself with no shame or hesitation. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) Out of all of the children in the Holocaust, 1,000,000 children died. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) These children died from ways that you may not even be able to imagine.

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

There were a whole lot of experiments there was Dr. Brandt Hitler's personal physician he would do experiments on the disabled and twins like Dr. Mengele also known as the angel of death. Another doctor would cut them and then rub wood or metal

The doctors would dissect the victims’ brains while they were still alive. Out of the 200 inmates performed on, eighty died outright from the torture. The rest of the victims were executed after the experimentation was

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).

Dr.Josef Mengele also known for being “Angel of Death wanted to extend the population of Germany experimenting with the victims that

Some of the experiments they used them for included treatments for hypothermia, maximum height that crews from damaged aircraft could parachute to safety, making seawater safe to drink, treatments for contagious diseases, test drug efficacy, sterilization, and Josef Mengele’s experiments on twins (Medical). Although many other SS physicians conducted experiments in the camps, Mengele’s are the most famous. Before he came to the camps, he performed numerous experiments on twins. When he arrived at the camps he was told it was okay to kill them, so he took that opportunity to perform long, painful and dangerous experiments

The experiments were inhuman and brutal, as were most other conducts of the Nazis. Dr. Mengele often sewed together the twins connecting ones upper torso to the others. If one of any of the twins dies the other would be immediately killed with a medical shot injected into the heart. Promptly after joint autopsies would be performed

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.

The life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s life and post-mortem fate could be divided into three different chapters. His pre-war life and life during World War II was one of privilege and freedom to satisfy his perverse desire to perform bizarre and mostly useless medical

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