The Holocaust Of The Auschwitz Camp

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

What was in store for the twins that he loved so much were what can only be described as the most appalling and inhumane events that occurred in the second great war. Some of the tests were fairly run of the mill, questionnaires, and height and weight measurements. Standard procedure for any doctor but the worst was yet to come. Mengele was known for many of his experiments. Just a few of his favorites were those which involved eye color, resistance to disease and live human dissection. Mengele would find pair of twins which he believed was suitable for his desired experiment. (Lagnado & Dekel). The eyes for example one twin would be a control for the experiment. The other would have a colored dye injected into their eye. No anesthesia was ever involved; the insertion of the dye often times would result in nasty infections or complete blindness. Others involved live human dissection of infants and very young children. He carried out twin-to-twin transfusions, stitched twins together, castrated or sterilized twins. Many twins had limbs and organs removed in macabre surgical procedures,

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eye­wit­ness Account by Dr. Mik­lós Nyis­zlI is a non-fiction mem­oir of a Jew­ish Hun­gar­ian med­ical doc­tor who per­formed alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz from 1944-45 to conduct “research” on Jews. This book is a lot to swallow and doesn’t beat around the bush, it’s straight to the point.

Have you ever wondered about the experiments performed on humans during the Holocaust? Dr. Josef Mengele, or more commonly known as the Angel of Death, was one the the infamous doctors to experiment and torture humans, more specifically, children, twins. Dr. Josef Mengele is a man of pure evil who was devoid of all feelings for the young twins of Auschwitz. The following paragraphs will tell you about Josef Mengele and his crimes.

Everyone has heard of the concentration Camp Auschwitz, but most don’t know about the horrific things that took place. The novel, Auschwitz: A Doctors Eyewitness Account, by Dr.Miklos Nyiszli, he talks about his experiences of being a doctor in Auschwitz. He is forced into performing experiments on his own people when he serves under the evil Dr.Meingle. From this book, it taught me how Dr. Nyiszli was driven to survive so he could tell about his experiences in Auschwitz.

They were also done in other concentration camps SS Major Dr. Helmuth Vetter was stationed in several concentration camps. At the order of Bayer Leverkusen, he performed many horrible experiments on the prisoners. The experiments performed, led to many prisoner deaths. At the same time was Dr. Joseph Mengele, they experimented with many medications, not only were they applied to sick prisoners, they were applied to the healthy ones as well.

Doctor Miklos Nyiszli was one of the prisoners interned in the complex of Nazi concentration camps collectively known as Auschwitz, this book Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account is him telling his story of life and survival in the camp. In this essay I will attempt to briefly summarize Nyiszlis time in the camp, why I believe he wrote about his experiences, and a very brief analysis of the foreword to the book written by Bruno Bettelheim.

The starting of Mengele’s experimental interests began when he became anxious to make a name for himself; he searched for the secrets of heredity. The Nazi ideal of the future would benefit from the help of genetics. If Aryan women could give birth to blonde and blue eyed children, the future could be saved (Rosenburg, “Mengele’s Children: The twins of Auschwitz”). In 1937 Dr. Josef Mengele joined the Nazi party, then in 1938 he went to the SS. In 1942 he was wounded at the Russian front and pronounced unfit for duty. After that he volunteered

Soon he was helping with the experiments and also doing some of his own. One of his most known experiments included fraternal and identical twins. He tried to trace the genetic origin of diseases through the twins. In addition, he likes to study their heredity. He was nice to the children he would soon experiment on. He would befriend them by giving them chocolates and candy. Mengele was kind of like a short term father figure in the children’s eyes. So then the children trusted him and called him “Uncle Mengele.” Mengele got “his” experimental Jews from the selection when the Jews first got to the Concentration Camp. He could do this because part of his job was to help in the selection of the individuals to be selected for the experiments. Whenever a pair of twins came along, most of the time Mengele got them selected for his experiments first. With that, one night Mengele took fourteen pairs of twins and injected each of them with chloroform in their hearts. All fourteen pairs of twins died in one night, so that is a total of 28 people in just one night.

Dr. Josef Mengele worked at a camp called Auschwitz. That is where he experimented with people to create what he thought was a perfect race. Mengele was an evil person, he was inhumane. He had always been fascinated with twins, so he decided to experiment on them. He did all sorts of experiments to change whatever he could about a person. In all reality after he got done with the people, they weren't the same. The person they use to be, was no more than a thought. They could never go back to being who they were, even after they left Auschwitz every memory, every sound, every day of being there would always come back to haunt them. They could go as far away from that place as they wanted, but yet still couldn’t seem to loose memory of their tragic, and gruesome experiments.

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

Josef Mengele divorced his wife Irene and married Martha, the widow of his brother, Karl, in Uruguay in 1958 (Mengele Family Keeps Uneasy Silence 1). He was unwittingly helped in this by the International Committee of the Red Cross who provided travel papers for people as a humanitarian gesture. With a false name, identity, and Italian residency papers. He moved from one South American country to another to avoid being captured like Adolf Eichmann. He also lived under a number of aliases. He later moved to Brazil, where he met up with another former Nazi party member, Wolfgang Gerhard (History Learning Site 1). In 1977 Josef’s son tried to visit him, at this point rolf is a law graduate ( Posner 1). In 1979, while swimming in the sea in Brazil, Mengele suffered a stroke and drowned. He was buried as ‘Wolfgang Gerhard’ at Embu. However, his family later admitted that they had sheltered him as Wolfgang Erhard who was indeed Mengele (History Learning Site 1). In 1985, a multinational team of forensic experts from the West German Bonn government traveled to Brazil in search of Mengele because they discovered a cache of letters, some possibly written by Mengele himself, that led them to Brazil. There, a Hungarian-born couple, Geza and Gitta Stammer, claimed that Mengele had worked for them as

Between the years 1939 and 1945 over seven thousands medical experiments, being both cruel and or lethal took place. These victims would include jews, political prisoners, soviet union prisoners, homosexuals and catholic priests. One of these doctors were Joseph Mengele. It is said that Mengele believed that prisoners were not human and on many occasions, murdered the prisoners either but a gunshot or a lethal injection. Mengele studied the prisoners in many areas. One of which was his curiosity to change the eye color, only to result in pain and infection. Mengele was also experimenting on prisoners that were dwarves and twins. All of the prisoners he experimented on suffered from mass amount of pain. At the end of World War II, Mengele became

Dr. Mengele, or you may know him as the “Angel of Death”, was a infamous physician in the Nazi regime. Born on March 16, 1911, trouble brewed in Gunzburg, Germany. In his life, he joined the Nazi regime, he tortured concentration camp prisoners, in the name of science, and he managed to elude capture by running away to South America.

World War II is one of the most imfamous periods in human history. The world is still shocked today by the horrific idea of the Nazi concentration camps from 1933-1945, but what many people dont know is what awful, unimaginable things went on behind closed doors in these terrible places. The Nazi SS doctors used the unknowing, innocent prisoners in these camps to experiment on for their own personal pleasure and amusement. One of these infamous Doctors was Dr. Sigmund Rascher, a German SS doctor during the Nazi regime. He experimented on the prisoners with the consent of Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the the Schutzstaffel also known as the SS. “From 1941 to 1944, Rascher conducted some of the textbook ethical trespasses of Berlin’s human experimentation regime” .