What Are Dr Mengele's Experiments

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.

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.

During the holocaust prisoners of concentration camps were faced with evil, torture and death every day. Some of the prisoners in these camps were selected for Nazi medical experiments. Nazi doctors performed several different human experiments on prisoners throughout the Holocaust. A specifically horrific experiment was the twin experiments. This experiment was performed by Dr. Joseph Mengele and several of his assistants in Auschwitz. He is known for performing some of the most inhumane experiments during the holocaust.

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".

The last very excruciatingly painful experiment was the interrogation and torture experiments. These experiments were supposed to test people’s limits, endurance, and existence. They simulated extremely high altitudes with and without oxygen. Theses experiments were executed in Dachau concentration camp. There were four experiments conducted slow falling with and without oxygen, and falling with and without oxygen.

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

Doctors Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and headed by Doctor Phillip Zimbardo. This article provides in detail the initial purpose for this study, its participants, the nature of the study, the events that transpired during the experiment and of its results. With this article we are provided with a clear picture of the events that had transpired during the experiment and provides some insight into why the events may have occurred.

These experiments were not only full of hate but also used for the advancement of medicine and effective treatment of the patient. Some were just out of fascination and believed they were for the better of the Aryan race. Injecting prisoners with chemicals, raising and lowering body temperature, and comparing the vitals of twins under extreme conditions are just three ways doctors of the Holocaust used prisoners for medical advancement. Since that age and time we have strived to move forward from that period and time and focus more on the patient's well being rather than the

His experiments were vicious and are considered crimes in every sense of the word. Josef Mengele did experiments on twins because the their genetic makeup was the same, so every change would be considered an environmental one. He would use twins to compare and contrast the effects of certain chemicals.When one of the twins died, they would both be executed and then dissected it for differentiation.A mass murder he once committed in which he killed 14 patients in one night and spent hours performing autopsies on them. Josef Mengele was a person with a quick temper and he once sended 600 women to be killed in the gas chambers because there was a spread of typhus in a block cell. As other examples of a war crimes done by Josef Mengele he stitched a pair of twins together, gouged out the eyes of patients, vivisected some of the children that had affection towards him and sawed off the head of infected prisoners to send them of to study.

Take the High altitude ‘experiment’, also conducted a Dachau under Dr. Rascher, for example. In this experiment Rascher wanted to ‘find’ the best way to save German pilots who ejected at high altitudes. Rascher had subjects put into low pressure chambers “that simulated altitudes as high as 68,000 feet, and monitored their physiological response as they succumbed and died.”(Tyson) If Rascher were testing for Pilot survival, he would no that the pressure would slowly increase, as the ejected pilot slowly parachuted down to the ground. Rascher, however, kept the pressure chamber at a set pressure, incorrectly representing how the human body would react to ejecting at high altitude. Furthermore, if the point of the experiment was to save pilots from high altitudes, why did they let some of the subjects die in the chamber? Shouldn’t they be testing ways to revive them, rather than kill them? Even worse, to the subjects that survived the chamber, Rascher would perform vivisections, “[dissecting] victims’ brains while they were still alive to show that high-altitude sickness resulted from the formation of tiny air bubbles in the blood vessels of a certain part of the brain.”(Tyson) The dissections of the brain to discover the formation of blood vessel could easily have been discovered in autopsy. Sure, this would require the subject to die, but at least they wouldn’t have died by having their skull cracked

The doctors who examined the incoming prisoners and sorted them also worked in these hospitals performing medical research on the ill. This medical research was mostly placing the Jewish prisoners in ice water baths then monitoring them until they died. This research was mostly used to prevent hypothermia if German Pilots ever ended up being stranded in the ocean. Some of the experiments performed by doctors often had no research purpose at all, such as experiments involving eye color changing using chemical droppers and the surgical sewing of children together to create siamese twins. Auschwitz was the largest death camp with 20,000 Jews being killed a day and 39 subcamps.

Dr. Josef Mengele was a doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He conducted many medical experiments during the Holocaust. One of his experiments consisted on taking baby twins and sew them together to make Siamese twins, he would see if they could still live while doing these experiments. Another thing he did to twins was that he would inject different types of drugs into them and see what would the drug do to them and also see if they could last through all of the injections. If he messed up one on of the twins he would always have another one to test on.

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 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

     In Sheldon Harris’s “Factories of Death”, details of many other experiments including the suspending subjects upside down to determine how long it took for them to choke to death. He mentions in his book how others had air injected into them to test for the onset of embolisms and others had horse urine injected into their kidneys. Dr. Kanisawa said “The first time I was very hesitant to do what I was told to do. The second time you get used to it. The third time you more or less volunteered. There are times when I look at my hands and remember