Mengele's Experiments In The Krakow

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As the Soviet Union begins to invade Germany and they started to lose the war, all the evidence of the horrors that were committed had to be erased. After Plaszow turned into a concentration camp in 1944 and the Soviet Union invaded, all traces of murder had to be erased from the camp. In this case they burned the bodies of the jews in the camps and dug up the ones that were buried and burned those as well. All the people still alive had to be relocated into concentration or extermination camps and the camp was closed. The final solution was a plan made by the Nazis to eliminate all European Jews in the most efficient way, gassing, firing squad, starvation, etc. The Krakow massacre was when the Jews in the Krakow ghetto were all relocated …show more content…

He had a big interest in twins. He liked to compare their anatomies in terms of how they both reacted to stimuli and if he could sew the two together and make them function. He also did dissections, used lethal injections, and tried to change eye color. After he was done with the bodies they went to the crematories. He did make a discovery or two including that human don't necessarily need all their organ to survive. The discoveries he should at least be accepted to be used by doctors. Might as well use them so they are not totally worthless and and so all those people didn't die for nothing. To try to exterminate all the jews and make the process faster the Nazis came up with the final solution. They tried different methods involving shooting and gas buses. After realizing that those ways were insufficient they came up with a process modeled after Henry Ford's assembly line method created in 1908. This method was able to cut down the production time of a car from 12 hours plus to a little more than two hours. The Nazis used this method as a part of the final solution but in reverse. They would strip down the jews of anything that could be useful to the Germans such as hair, clothes, jewelry, and unethical medical purposes. This takes a whole and turns it into multiple people which is the opposite of the assembly

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