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.