Dr. Josef MengeleDr. Josef Mengele

By Samantha HendersonBy Samantha Henderson

Who was Dr. Mengele and what were Who was Dr. Mengele and what were some of his experiments?some of his experiments?

Who was Dr. Mengele?Who was Dr. Mengele?

Josef Mengele was born on March 16th 1911. In 1937 Mengele joined the Nazi Party. He volunteered to work at the concentration camp, Auschwitz. As a doctor, Mengele performed many crucial experiments to young children and Adults.

Dr. Mengele’s ExperimentsDr. Mengele’s Experiments

Dr. Mengele was very interested in many Dr. Mengele was very interested in many things about the human body. Some of his things about the human body. Some of his experiments caused death, or serious experiments caused death, or serious injury. For one of his experiments he injury. For one of his experiments he wanted to see if you could change the color wanted to see if you could change the color of the people’s eyes, so he injected harmful of the people’s eyes, so he injected harmful chemicals into their eyes. He also injected chemicals into their eyes. He also injected chloroform into their hearts, which made chloroform into their hearts, which made them suffer death, or making them be them suffer death, or making them be paralyzed for the rest of their lives. That’s paralyzed for the rest of their lives. That’s why his nickname was the “Angel of Death.”why his nickname was the “Angel of Death.”

Twins Twins

Dr. Mengele had a huge interest on twins. He wanted all Dr. Mengele had a huge interest on twins. He wanted all the Nazi’s to find a set of twins at the camp, so he could the Nazi’s to find a set of twins at the camp, so he could experiment with them. Some mothers tried to hide their experiment with them. Some mothers tried to hide their twins, and other mothers would announce their twins to twins, and other mothers would announce their twins to the Nazi’s. Every time Mengele had a set of twins he the Nazi’s. Every time Mengele had a set of twins he often called twins his “children.” Except, if the twins were often called twins his “children.” Except, if the twins were at a young age, Mengele would let the mothers be with at a young age, Mengele would let the mothers be with them for a few days. Twins often got special treatment, them for a few days. Twins often got special treatment, by being fed more often, and being allowed to play by being fed more often, and being allowed to play sports. The twins had no idea what was in store for them, sports. The twins had no idea what was in store for them, until they were in the experiment lab ready to be tested until they were in the experiment lab ready to be tested on. on.

What happened to Mengele after the War?What happened to Mengele after the War?

• After the war, Dr. Mengele was captured, but released After the war, Dr. Mengele was captured, but released by a U.S. detention center. After being released he went by a U.S. detention center. After being released he went to Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil to stay in hiding. He to Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil to stay in hiding. He stayed in those places until his death, he was stayed in those places until his death, he was supposed to have drowned.supposed to have drowned.

Annotated Link Number 1

1.) About.com is a fairly good website to find information. If you type in a topic you will receive two or more pages on the topic you choose. About.com will help you with almost anything you want. For example it will help you with travel, or school work. It helped me find the topic the twins in Auschwitz, and it gave me two pages of information on the subject. That’s why I like About.com.

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Google.com is a pretty good search engine to find certain things. I found most of my information on Google. Google gives you many choices on your subject. All of the choices are from different websites all over the internet. Google helped me find Dr. Mengele’s experiments. I chose the information from Wikipedia on Google. It came up with a lot of information, but some of the information was completely off subject. Although some information contained a lot of important facts. That’s why I chose Google.com to be one of my links.

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Wikipedia is designed to help kids with research. There are positives and negatives to Wikipedia. The negatives are; people can go onto the Wikipedia and change any information they want. They can say for example the moon is made of Swiss cheese if they want to. The positives are; they can come up with two or more pages of wonderful information. Wikipedia helped me find two pages of information on Dr. Mengele that’s why I like Wikipedia as an information source.

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