sources used for information

abc-clio.com
galegroup.com
www.ushmm.org
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
www.isurvived.org
www.history.ucsb.edu
Night by Elie Wiesel

The experiments

Dr. Mengele had a degree in anthropology, genetics, and eugenics. He was known to be more on the selection line than the operating room, and he was deemed responsible for the death of over 400000 people. His experiments involved chemicals, diseases, sewing, killing, and but most painful of them all, not using anesthetics. Patients could feel every single incision, poke, stab, cut, drop, and injection and the pain must have been unbearable. Many of his experiments even involved killing his patients, which we he would do by injecting chloroform into their hearts. Some of his experiments involved eye color, in which he would drop chemicals into their eyes to see the reaction and note any changes. He also studied dwarfism because he wanted to create giants. He would also test to see how different diseases affected different people. in a few of his experiments he even would sew twins together in an attempt to create artificial Siamese twins. He did have a license to kill his patients and many patients were killed to study a various number of things. When he did kill them, he made sure that they were in as best health as he could get them, however. His record as "angel of death" definitely suited him well

Mengele's children

Mengele was able to select the people he did when they were at the first selection line, where you were chosen for either life or death. He looked for people with deformities and looked even harder for twins. His patients had extremely harsh experiments done to them. (which will be described in another post) Mengele would also have the SS yell for twins at the selection line and, not sure if it was better to be a twin or not, parents would either let their children go or keep their children with them. All the people who were taken by Mengele and the SS were known as "Mengele's children" despite their age. Their living conditions were nicer than that of many in the concentration camps, but the experiments done to them were brutal. They got to keep their hair and clothes, their inspections weren't as brutal as all the others, and Mengele was known to play with them, talk with them, and even give them candy. They all had blood drawn from them daily. "The youngest children, whose arms and hands were very small, suffered the most: blood was drawn from their necks, a painful and frightening procedure." (isurvived.org) but besides that, their lives were easy compared to the others.

Biographic information

 
 (Dr. Josef Mengele)

Dr. Josef Mengele was born March 16, 1911 and died in Bertioga, Brazil on February 7, 1979. His study in medicine began in 1930 when he studied anthropology and genetics. "Mengele became a research assistant at an institute for heredity and 'racial purity' at Frankfurt University." (abc-clio.com) "He volunteered for the German army in 1940 and took part in the invasion of the soviet union before an injury rendered him unfit for military service." (abc-clio.com) In May of 1943 he went to Auschwitz and began medical experimentation. working at Auschwitz , he had an infinite supply of test subjects, whether it be Roma, deformed people, or twins. on January 17, 1945 he was captured by U.S. armed forces, but he escaped despite being labeled as a "war criminal". He went back to Germany and changed his name and, with financial suppoert from his family, fled to South America where he lived out the rest of his life. he died by having a stroke when swimming in Brazil on February 7, 1979 (34 years after his capture)