Differences And Similarities Between The Holocaust And Dr Mengele

During the Holocaust, the atrocities committed by the Nazis were not limited to mass murder, but also included human experiments conducted on twins. The experiments done were initiated by Dr. Josef Mengele, a German Nazi doctor. Dr. Mengele was also known as the Angel of Death. Dr. Mengele was an SS soldier and an active member of the Nazi party. Dr. Mengele’s experiments were done to twins because he wanted to compare one twin to the other or compare the outcomes of the experiments to two people with the same genetic makeup. Life for the twins in Auschwitz was different than all the other inmates in the camp. They were kept alive and did not have to go through what other prisoners went through until Dr. Mengele picked them up in trucks to

Mengele conducted twin experiments in which one of the twin was the “control group” and the other twin was the “experimental group,” or an experiment was done on both twins to see if the same result occurred. This is because twins have the same genetic makeup. Diseases that included typhus and tuberculosis, would be purposely given to one twin and not the other. When one died, the other was often killed to examine and compare the effects of the disease. This is because they thought that they have the same genetic makeup. They would purposely give it to one but not to the other to see how the first twin would react and note it down. Then he died and they would inject the other twin and see what the differences and the similarities were in how the body would react to the injection. Various surgeries were performed without anesthesia including organ removal, castration, and amputation, nerve regeneration, bone transplantation from one person to the other and conjoining twins together happened to the people being experimented on. A few sections of muscle,bone, and nerves were take out of the person without any anesthesia. After the operations the people suffered from intense pain, mutilation and sometimes permanent disability. A survivor from those experiments were done to both her legs. She then suffered from a fever after the surgery was done on her and she was not taken care of when she had a fever. Some other experiments that Dr. Mengele conducted on twins were high

Mengele apparently escaped and went underground for four year being a farm stableman near Bavaria, after that he reportedly left Bavaria and went to Genoa then South America in 1949. After he moved to Uruguay and married someone from there and changed his name to José Mengele, when he got married he got citizenship in Paraguay in 1959. In 1961 he supposedly moved to Brazil and becoming friends with an-old Nazi soldier named Wolfgang Gerhard. He then supposedly lived very wealthy thanks to a Hungarian couple. A team of Brazilian, West Germans and American forensic experts determined that Dr. Mengele stole Gerhard’s identity after his death. When Dr. Mengele arrived in Brazil he apparently started out as a vet and offered medical treatment to the woman in the town of Candido Godoi. Scientist fail to discover why so many as one in five pregnancies in Candido Godoi are twin pregnancies and most of those twins are blonde hair and blue eyed. We also know that Dr. Mengele made multiple visits in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil in the 1960s. This shows that Dr. Mengele was still trying to achieve his dream of a Nazi master race. Candido Godoi is now known of the land of twins and is also where the a museum called “The house of Twins” is located. The first blue eyed and blonde haired twins that were born was in 1963, which is when people say that Dr. Mengele was in Brazil. These experiments show that the Holocaust was worse than people thought it was because