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In the late 1930s, the United States became involved World War II. This was one of the most memorable wars involving the U. S. Many countries fought for and against the U. S. throughout the few years of hardship. After the Soviet Union became neutral, Germany invaded Poland September 1, 1939 marking the beginning of WWII. Only a couple days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and within days, Poland was defeated and portioned between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. (World War II In Europe, 2013).During this time, Adolf Hitler had become the leader of the Nazi Party and was the most influential voice in the organization (Wistrich, 2014). After World War I, Hitler became angry that Germany lost and blamed the Jews for their misfortune. The Nazis who came to power believed Germans were “racially superior and that the Jews, deemed inferior and were an alien to the so-called German racial community (Introduction to the Holocaust , 2013).
The Holocaust began in 1935 in Nazi Germany. During this time, Dr. Josef Mengele took the opportunity to conduct medical experiments on the millions of Jews that were being taken prisoner to the concentration camps. Mengele was the leader of many experiments over the years of the Holocaust but had a particular interest in people with growth disorders and began experimenting on twins and gypsies in 1944 (Gutman & Berenbaum, 1994, p. 319). His obsession led him to believe that he could unlock the secrets of human reproduction and multiple births. His goal was to repopulate the world Germans. (The Ethics of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments, 2010).
When Mengele started his experiments on twins, he paid particular attention to their facial features such as...
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Dr. Nyiszli was a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp survivor which was located in Poland. Reading his story provided me and the rest of the world with a description of the horrors that took place in the concentration camp in 1944. Being separated from his wife and daughter, Dr. Nyiszli volunteered to work under the supervision of the head doctor at the concentration camp which was Josef Mengele. Being a Jew and a medical doctor, he was spared death to do worst then a death, to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates with the infamous “Angel of Death”- Dr. Josef Mengele. Dr. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. There were several thoughts that ran my mind after reading Dr.
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Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy medical research projects and medical experiments were conducted at Auschwitz and Dachau. (Auschwitz Medical Experimentation). Over two hundred doctors participated in such research projects and experiments, sentencing between 70,000 and 100,000 people, held against their will, to death through experimentation. These were mostly Jews, but also gypsies, homosexuals and other minorities. They were thought to be inferior to the human race. Such practices became widely accepted and embraced by the Germans, due to the Nazis propaganda. The experiments conducted were diverse, but could be categorized in three classes.
Many medical experiments went on during the holocaust, mostly in concentration camps. These subjects included Jews, Gypsies, twins, and political prisoners. The experiments included many of these people never survived many were killed for further examination. The Jewish people got the full wrath of the injections, inhumane surgeries, and other experimentations. Twins were also desirable in these experiments to show a controlled group. Gypsies and political prisoners were experimented with, because they were there for the Germans disposal. Thousands of people died in these horrible experiments. These experiments were performed to show how the Jewish race was inferior to the Aryan race.
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Epstein shows the process that the majority of Jews were being put through, such as the medical examinations, medical experimentations, gas chambers and crematoriums. Medical examinations were used to determine if the Jews were healthy enough to work. Dr. Mengele used the Jews as “lab rats” and performed many experiments such as a myriad of drug testing and different surgeries. The gas chamber was a room where Jews were poisoned to death with a preparation of prussic acid, called Cyclo...
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In 1930, young, teenage Mengele completed high school and left his home to study medicine at Munich University in Germany. Adolf Hitler was stirring up the Bavarian people at this time with his “anti-Jewish” ideas. He attracted large crowds, who gather...
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A newborn child; innocent and unknowing. We were all once this way. But as we got older, we began to lose our innocence and become less gullible to childish things. In 1911, Josef Mengele was born into a wealthy Bavarian family with a Catholic upbringing. His life seemed pretty typical and he was successful in his studies. Shockingly, he grew up and became a physician in a concentration camp. He was known as the “Angel of Death" because in the camp, he 'd spend most of his time experimenting on twins for medical advancements. His childhood life had no indications that he would do such things. What could 've possibly driven him to do such a horrendous act of humanity? Throughout all of history, entertainment,