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Josef Mengele: The Angel Of Death.


Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Josef Mengele was often known as "The Angel of Death." was infamous for his inhumane medical experimentation upon concentration camp prisoners at Auschwitz. Mengele, on to of being an SS physician was known for supervising the selection of arriving transports, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, he also performed human experients on the prisoners.

Josef Mengele was nick named The Angel of Death. Josef Mengele during the war was a Nazi doctor, but he wasn’t just any doctor he was a brutal doctor. During WWII Josef Mengele, along with many other doctors at death camps, tortured their patients by performing medical experiments.

Josef Mengele was said to be fascinated with twins. When they were offloading the Jews from the cars, he requested that every pair of twins be sent to him. At Auschwitz Josef Mengele did a number of medical experiments, using twins. These twins as young as five years of age were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected. Many of the tests that Josef Mengele performed were on the twins of the holocaust and included, injecting chemicals into the eyes of the children in an attempt to alter the children s eye colors. He also carried out twin to twin transfusions, stitched twins together, castrated or sterilized twins. Many of the twins had limbs and organs removed in surgical procedures, that were performed without using anesthetic.

Josef Mengele performed many medical experiments, both physical and psychological. One of the most brutal stories, that have been recorded was when one night, he asked his assistant to gather up 14 pairs of Gypsy twins during the night. Mengele placed them on his dissection table and put them to sleep. He proceeded to inject chloroform into their hearts, killing them. Mengele began dissecting and noting “each and every piece of the twins’ bodies.” Josef Mengele was the chief provider for the gas chambers and their crematoria. When one block was reported as being infected with lice, Mengele’s solution was gassing all the 750 women assigned to it. At this point during time, Mengele was only thirty two years old.

The way that Mengele solved problems, or the medical experiments that he performed were unethical, Such as drawing a line on the wall of a children’s block this line was between five feet or five feet and two inches. Those, whose head could not reach the line, were sent to the chase chamber. Those that survived, remembered Mengele as a sweet man. "Only a few of the children survived Auschwitz. They later recalled how they were visited by a smiling Uncle Mengele who brought them candy and clothes. Then he had them delivered to his medical laboratory either in trucks painted with the Red Cross emblem or in his own personal car[|. " (Louis Bülow)] The children that were tortured by Josef Mengele, were deceived. In a time of horror they felt comfort in the arms of a man who would be the one person that hurt them the most. Of all the grotesque things that Josef Mengele did, deceiving those children, that were already scared was one of the worst, they thought that they'd be fine, later to find out that once again they were lied to.

Erin Garay