Dr. Mengele
Mengele was born on March 16th, 1911. His early years seemed normal - he was deemed to be an intelligent and popular person in his home town. After leaving school, Mengele went to Munich to study philosophy. After this, he studied medicine at Frankfurt University. By the time he had finished his medical studies, his beliefs were starting to show in a Nazi Germany where racism was rife. His dissertation was a study into the differences in the lower jaw between different racial groups.
In 1937, Mengele joined the Nazi Party and one year later he joined the SS. Mengele fought in the Russian campaign but he was so badly wounded that he was considered unfit for frontline military service. After recovering from his wounded, Mengele volunteered to work in concentration camps. He was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
It was Mengele who is principally associated with selecting those who were gassed on arrival and those who survived. Known as the "Angel of Death", a flick of the wrist immediately condemned some to the gas chambers, while others were deemed able to work for a while before being murdered. In his 21 months at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mengele was a regular figure on the platform when the trains came.
Dr. Josef Mengele and the other Nazi doctors at the death camps tortured men, women and children and did medical experiments of unspeakable horror during the Holocaust. Victims were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death. Children were exposed to experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one to another, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. The doctors made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, removal of organs and limbs.
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.
Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of the children in an attempt to change their eye color. 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, performed without using an anesthetic.
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.
Josef Mengele was the chief provider for the gas chambers at Auschwitz - and did well! When it was reported that one block was infected with lice, Mengele solved the problem by gassing all the 750 women assigned to it.
In 1937, Mengele joined the Nazi Party and one year later he joined the SS. Mengele fought in the Russian campaign but he was so badly wounded that he was considered unfit for frontline military service. After recovering from his wounded, Mengele volunteered to work in concentration camps. He was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
It was Mengele who is principally associated with selecting those who were gassed on arrival and those who survived. Known as the "Angel of Death", a flick of the wrist immediately condemned some to the gas chambers, while others were deemed able to work for a while before being murdered. In his 21 months at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mengele was a regular figure on the platform when the trains came.
Dr. Josef Mengele and the other Nazi doctors at the death camps tortured men, women and children and did medical experiments of unspeakable horror during the Holocaust. Victims were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death. Children were exposed to experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one to another, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. The doctors made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, removal of organs and limbs.
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.
Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of the children in an attempt to change their eye color. 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, performed without using an anesthetic.
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.
Josef Mengele was the chief provider for the gas chambers at Auschwitz - and did well! When it was reported that one block was infected with lice, Mengele solved the problem by gassing all the 750 women assigned to it.