Who Is Josef Mengele's Experiments During The Holocaust

The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in history. Countless things occurred during the Holocaust, towards the people that were unsuitable or not equal to the Nazi party; such as homosexuals, gypsies, handicaps, and Jews. These innocent people were tortured, murdered, and even experimented on. According to Peter Tyson, these experiments include high altitude, freezing/hypothermia, twin experiments, poison, Tuberculosis, Phosgene gas, bone and muscle transplants, artificial insemination, seawater, and many more. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says these brutal experiments can be divided into three main categories: experiments aimed at facilitating the endurance of Axis military members, growing and testing pharmaceuticals

Dr. Josef Mengele had a Ph.D and a medical doctorate. He was interested in people who had different colored irises and the treatment of noma. It was previously almost unknown in Europe and ran throughout the Gypsy camp. He first started experimenting on gypsy children. Children suffering from this disease were put to death in order for investigations to take place. Organs and even full heads of the children were sent in jars to institutions. In the first phase of his experiments, Mengele conducted pairs of twins and people with physical handicaps to special medical examinations that could be carried out on the living organism. The experiments he performed were usually painful and exhausting. They lasted for hours and were very difficult for starved, terrified children. As soon as he was finished with the subjects, he ordered them to be killed by phenol injection so he could move on to the next phase of his experiments, the comparative investigation of internal organs at autopsy. He continous did these experiments on twins, dwarfs, and people with disabilities until he had the information he needed. After the Holocaust was over, Mengele was in custody of the United States. Unaware that he was a wanted war criminal, they released him. He then fled to South America to made a new life for himself. Thirty years later, he suffered of a stroke swimming at a vacation resort. In 1985, German police found his body, under the fictive name of Wolfgang Gerhard. He is known as the “Angel of Death” for his cruel demeanor (Background & Overview Of Nazi Medical Experiments,