Josef Mengele's Experiments During The Holocaust

Dr. Mengele indirectly performed 30 different experiments on helpless, unconsenting prisoners. Three of these experiments, conducted for the benefit of the German army, were: the High Altitude experiment, the Freezing Temperature experiment, and the Sea Water experiment. These experiments resulted in many scientific breakthroughs at the cost of the lives of thousands.

Mengele was one of the main doctors that everyone knows about, there were in fact other doctors during the holocaust. Dr. Carl Clauberg, He was a very disturbing man. This doctor ¨injected chemical substances into wombs of thousands of Jewish and Gypsy women.¨ They were sterilized by the injections causing horrible pain, inflamed ovaries, bursting spasms in the stomach, and bleeding.

Who was Dr. Joseph Mengele during the Holocaust? To some, he seemed a Doctor while others only saw death when his name was said. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, in Germany in Günzburg.

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” This quote by Josef Mengele speaks to his time spent as part of the Holocaust. Historically, many may also know him as the Angel of Death. He is infamous for the inhumane experiments he did on the Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Have you ever wondered about the experiments performed on humans during the Holocaust? Dr. Josef Mengele, or more commonly known as the Angel of Death, was one the the infamous doctors to experiment and torture humans, more specifically, children, twins. Dr. Josef Mengele is a man of pure evil who was devoid of all feelings for the young twins of Auschwitz. The following paragraphs will tell you about Josef Mengele and his crimes.

“He cut into me, without anesthetic,...The pain was indescribable. I felt every slice of the knife. Then I saw my kidney pulsating in his hand. I cried like a madman, I cried out the prayer; “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one...And I prayed to die, that I might not suffer this agony any more.” (Hall). This was said by a ‘patient’ of Dr. Josef Mengele, Mr. Yitzhak Ganon. Mr. Ganon was of the survivors of the inhumane experiments that took place in Auschwitz by the hand of the abominable man that is Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was one of the most infamous men associated with the Holocaust, his cruel experiments on twins, jews, gypsies, and the other being held at Auschwitz made him widely known for his cruelty, warranting him the title of “The Angel of Death".

On January 30, 1933 the worst thing in history began, the Holocaust. During this time six million Jews, 196,000 Gypsies, about 1,900 Jehovah’s Witnesses, and thousands of homosexuals were killed during the holocaust. Dr. Josef Mengele was a doctor during the holocaust who did terrible experiments on Jews. He became known as “the Angel of Death” and part of Hitler’s “final solution.” Josef Mengele was a cruel man who did horrible experiments on men, women, and children.

Josef Mengele was a physician that worked in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He was interested in experimenting on twins, Gypsies, dwarves, giants, and those that had physical abnormalities such as heterochromia, or a club foot [1]. Mengele would conduct pseudo-scientific experiments on his test subjects. He was a part of the ensemble of doctors that decided who would be sent to the gas chambers upon their arrival to Auschwitz. Most of these were pregnant women, the elderly, and children[2].

The people that were involved in helping the Nazi party in the Holocaust were ruthless people that were dedicated to trying to “purify” the German race. These people believed that there was a superior German race and that any other German race was inferior. This led to one of the biggest tragedies against humanity, the Holocaust. Josef Mengele, a medical scientist, did everything he could during his lifetime to purify the German race by doing heinous and cruel experiments on Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz during World War II.

He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945(Ewers). The camp inmates would call him the “Angel of Death”(McKale). They would call him this because he would do experiments on people and kill them. He personally selected over 400,000 prisoners to die in gas chambers(McKale). Josef used his service as a Nazi doctor as a springboard toward an academic career(Koren). He would pluck out hunchbacks, pinheads, hermaphrodites, giants, dwarfs, obese men, and corpulent women but spared Germans(Koren)(“Life”). He would traumatize prisoners and show them his wall of eyeballs(“Life”). He was a ruthless, cold blooded

Specific purpose: To inform the audience about Josef Mengele, a doctor in Auschwitz and a psychological quandary.

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

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

The Angel of Death Dehumanized, terrified, starving, lab rats: these are just a few words to describe the twins experimented on in death camps all around Germany during World War II. Josef Mengele, nicknamed “The Angel of Death,” was the man who is held responsible for the death of over 1.6 million men, women, and children. In order to trace the genetic origins of various diseases, Josef Mengele held cruel and inhumane experiments on twins. These experiments included surgeries, injections, blood drawn, and many more unsterile endeavors. Although there were hundreds of deaths under Mengele’s watch, there were some survivors who live to tell the cruelties he inflicted upon them.

Dr. Josef Mengele also known as the angel of death was the cruelest Nazi doctor(M.B. 1). During select where Jewish people were determined to be gassed or used for labor many doctors would have to get drunk, Mengele could do it sober, and he even covered shifts he wasn’t assigned to. Why doctor Mengele performed random, crucifying experiments? He thought he was helping science by performing these experiments. It is important to know for everybody so they know hopefully none of the modern doctors are performing these experiments.