Josef Mengele: Angel Of Death

Josef Mengele (Angel of Death)
During The Holocaust, Nazi doctors forcefully performed a number of painful, and often deadly, medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. These experiments were created to collect research on topics such as hypothermia, treating of illnesses and injuries, twins, and how people of different races responded to disease1. Josef Mengele was a SS physician, infamous for the brutal experiments he conducted on prisoners in Auschwitz between May 1943 and January 19452.
Pre-Nazi Party and Education
Mengele got his PhD in physical anthropology from the University of Munich, and begun working with Dr. Otmar von Verschuer at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in 1937. He assisted von Verschuer in his experiments on identical and fraternal twins, and

Mengele was also involved in the selection process, often being the one to decide who would live to work, and who would be sent to their deaths. Because of his participation in this process, he is well known as the “Angel of Death”6. He performed many inhumane experiments and is responsible for the deaths of an unknown number of victims.
Children: The majority of his experiments were performed on Roma and Jewish children who knew him as “Uncle Mengele”. They were kept separated from the rest and were given more food, better living quarters than the other prisoners. Some even attended a school Mengele had set up7.
Twins: The procedures he performed on twins included the removal of limbs, deliberate infections, blood transfusions, and on at least one occasion, attempting to sew the two together to create conjoined twins. After the tests were conducted, the twins were often killed and used for dissections9. Approximately 1,500 pairs of twins were experimented on during this