Why did Dr. Josef Mengele experiment on twin children prisoners in Auschwitz? Dr. Josef Mengele or "The Angel of Death" he was so often called, was a physician in Germany who worked next to top medical researchers. He was often called as a handsome man with a calm appearance, an appearance that hid the person he really was. During World War II, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted horrifying experiments on humans, especially on twin children who he seemed to have a fascination with to be able to learn about environmental and genetic traits and to experiment on how he could be able to multiply on the German Aryan/Nordic race which Hitler appointed on being a race above all other races by having German Aryan/Nordic women give birth to twins. Mengele also decided who lived and who died in the concentration camp in Auschwitz by just pointing out with his finger right or left. Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who took an oath that all doctors take to never harm anyone did the opposite of that oath by all the experiments he did on the Jewish and Gypsy twin children prisoners in Auschwitz; and to all the twin prisoners who lived thru the ordeal that Mengele put them thru, they never got to see the “Angel of Death” known as one the most evil man among others associated with the holocaust on trial and pay for his crimes as he was never prosecuted as a war criminal. Josef Mengele was born in Gunzburg, Germany in March 16, 1911. The oldest son of a founder of a farm machinery company. He attended the University of Munich in 1935; the University of Munich was one of other headquarters of the Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler. Mengele went on and earned his PhD in physical anthropology. In 1937 “at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in F... ... middle of paper ... ...tically determined in other people as well.” (Lifton, 1985) A Nazi who said he never intentionally hurt anyone and was just doing his job was what Mengele’s son recalls during a visit in 1977. Mengele fled from a country to another and died in 1979 in Brazil from a stroke and was buried as Wolfgang Gerhard, his body was later dig up in 1985 for a forensic examination to prove it was Mengele’s body, but it wasn’t until in 1992 when DNA proved that it was Mengele’s body. Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who did the opposite of what doctors do in their career which is to care and not harm, killed many prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and became one of the evilest men among others in the Holocaust with his experimentations, but to the twins who lived he was the doctor who scarred them for life, and a doctor that was never prosecuted for his crimes in Auschwitz.
In Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli tells the story of his time in Auschwitz. Dr. Nyiszli is a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp located in Poland. His story provides the world with a description of horrors that had taken place in camp in 1944. Separated from his wife and daughter, Dr. Nyiszli volunteered to work under the supervision of the head doctor in the concentration camp, Josef Mengele. It was under Dr. Mengele’s supervision that Dr. Nyiszli was exposed to the extermination of innocent people and other atrocities committed by the SS. Struggling for his own survival, Dr. Nyiszli did anything possible to survive, including serving as a doctor’s assistant to a war criminal so that he could tell the world what happened at the Auschwitz concentration camp.This hope for survival and some luck allowed Dr. Nyiszli to write about his horrific time at Auschwitz.His experiences in Auschwitz will remain apart of history because of the insight he is able to provide.
Born as the eldest son, March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg, Germany was Josef Mengele. His father was a very wealthy business owner of a manufacturing company of farming equipment. Josef grew up with a strict catholic religion. Later being accepted the University of Munich and obtaining a degree in philosophy. He then pursued a medical degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main, concentrating on physical anthropology and genetics (Killer File). “In January of 1937, at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, he became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, a leading science figure widely known for his research with twins” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). In 1937 Josef Mengele earned his medical degree and made the decision to enlist into the Nazi Party. This is where a man that everyone perceived as smart, intelligent, and nice turned into what he would soon be called, “the angel of death”.
Josef Mengele performed horrific experiments on twins, justified by official Nazis party policies to try and create the "perfect human being". To this day, he serves as a warning signal of the evil man is capable of doing by trying to do good for one's own race with the exclusion of others. In some ways Mengel was a mythological creature, he would suddenly appear out of thin air, regardless it being day or night
January 30th, 1933 was the day thousands of lives were affected greatly. Adolf Hitler began as the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler and his newly founded army, were always viewed as the true killers of the innocent Jews. Many did not notice the people who actually did a great deal of the killing, the doctors that is. There were a number of doctors from the Holocaust that are known for horrific killing but one stands out above the rest. Dr. Josef Mengele is the one that most people know about. He is the one that is known for his antics in the killing of Jews. He can’t be compared to the others because what he did was like no other.
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Mengele was born March 16, in the year 1911 in Bavaria to Karl Mengele previous to WWI. Karl his father, happened to be a manufacturer of farming. Furthermore out of his siblings Josef Mengele was the oldest of them all. Meanwhile during his family’s lifetime, they ran a machine tools business together. As Mengele grew older he became well-known in his town as well as being labeled extremely smart and intelligent. Education took up a large portion of his life soon after that. This included studying in the field of Philosophy at the University Munich, also going to Frank...
The way to Auschwitz was always a train ride but after that, the twins’ lives separated from the rest. The train unloaded onto a sorting platform, where an Auschwitz doctor sorted them. One doctor that helped sort was Dr. Josef Mengele. He worked no more than any other doctor, but he would appear while off-duty to try to find twins or people with other physical deformities (“Josef Mengele” Holocaust Museum par.7). Directly after they were taken away, they were treated very well. They were forced to take a shower, but they got to keep their own clothes and hair. They also had to fill out a form about their family history and basic facts about their health. Since most of these children now had no families, Dr. Josef Mengele acted as a father figure for them. He would interact with the children, and talk to them. Sometimes he even played with them. He often gave them candy or chocolates too. In this part of the camp, he was known as Uncle Mengele (Rosenberg par.12-14).
Joseph Mengele did many horrible things as a doctor in the concentration camps. Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of children to attempt to change their eye color. He also stitched 2 twins together.
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It is evident from Elie’s story that he put all his trust in his doctor and had no fear. There were many doctors in the concentration camps that had no idea their fellow workers were actually intentionally harming the Jews. Hans Munch has been hailed as a “mini-Schindler” at Auschwitz for helping to save Jewish lives (Winik 1). Munch grew up near the French border. As a young medical student, he joined the Nazi party only because it was needed to succeed. He found a way around the system and was able to help many Jews. Instead of injecting toxic serum, Munch and his nurses inject a benign substance that cause a rash, but that did not cause any harm (Winik 9). The nurses then made fake reports. Munch says that if the original serum was injected it would have caused serious harm (Winik 9). At the 50th anniversary celebration of the Auschwitz Liberation, Munch was acquitted of accused war crimes to the Jewish people. The horror and brutality of the concentration camps did have doctors that were committed to pre...
In Auschwitz, a Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, Doctor Miklos Nyiszli tells his tale on the things he experienced and witnessed at one of the largest concentration camps in Germany. His story encounters the horrors of the camp, from a very unique point of view. In his struggle to survive and tell his tale, Nyiszli volunteered to work alongside a Nazi war criminal who conducted and performed experiments on innocents. Nyiszli was forced to perform horrific “scientific research” projects for his supervisor, the notorious, Doctor Josef Mengele. During his time there, he witnessed the inhumane and unjustified extermination of his own people. Because of his acquired position alongside Mengele, and some luck, he was able to escape alive and testify
Dr. Josef Mengele was chief physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He carried out experiments on children and people with physical and/or mental abnormalities to prove the Nordic race superior. He transitioned to using twins in his experiments. Mengele wanted to understand how identical twins were made and what was so different about them. His experiments consisted of using one twin as a control and the other as a variable. He would expe...
The life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s life and post-mortem fate could be divided into three different chapters. His pre-war life and life during World War II was one of privilege and freedom to satisfy his perverse desire to perform bizarre and mostly useless medical experiments on unwilling participants in Nazi death camps. His post-war life consisted of being constantly on the run; a lonely and depressed fugitive wanted by countries worldwide for the atrocities he committed against Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and others during World War II. His lonely death by drowning, in Brazil, and humiliating post-mortem fate suited the man well. Although this report might seem to follow a chronological order, it is not simply a telling of a life story. It is a look into who Josef Mengele was, and how he changed over the years.
Vera Alexander, a survivor of Auschwitz, testified in 1985 on this horrific experiment. She stated, “One pair of twins called Guido and Nina was barely older than four. Mengele picked them up and brought them back mutilated in a perverse way. They had been sewn together at the back like Siamese twins.” Mengele sewed the set of twins at the back like Alexander said, and he had even sewn the veins in their hands together. The twins called out day and night in pain. Their mother eventually put an end to their suffering by injecting them with morphine a nurse had given to her. Another one of Mengele’s experiments was to inject chemicals and dyes into twins’ eyes in an attempt to change the color of their eyes. He also attempted to change a boy from a girl and vice versa by transferring blood from a set of boy twins to a set of girl twins, and then transfusing the blood from the girls to the boys. In an even viler approach to this, Mengele cut off parts of twin boys’ genitalia to see if he could turn them into girls. These experiments show the self-serving side of Mengele. He did not have to perform these more horrendous experiments, but he did so to test his own personal
Josef Mengele, also known as The Angel of Death, was responsible for the deaths of many innocent people during the Holocaust. His ideas for experimenting were strongly influenced by his family, childhood, and past. He caused human suffering through his lethal experiments. By committing all of these atrocities, one could easily argue that he did not get proper justice.