Dr Josef Mengele

By Emma Spittel

I must warn that the following pictures and stories are very

sad and gruesome. Watch this slide show at your own

risk.

Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911. He was the eldest of three sons in an upper middle-class family. Mengele was Born with strikingly good looks which

he used to his advantage.

After being taken by waves of sickness as a teenager Mengele set his mind on

medicine. This choice, is one which doomed thousands of

lives.

When WWII began Josef was itching to get in on the action. For a year or so he was a medical officer and then a soldier. In time he was sent to Aushwitz which is where his “career” really began.

Mengele was given a position as camp doctor. This is where he decided who was to go into the gas chambers and who would do slave work. He was the grim reaper for tens of thousands.

“They come here as jews and leave as smoke up the chimney.”

In one instance a block was reported

to have been infected with lice;

so to solve the problem a 32 year old Mengele sent the whole block,

750 women, to the gas chambers.

It is said the he casually waved to the left, with a cane held in a gloved hand four

hundred thousand grandparents, mothers, fathers, teenagers, children, and babies.

The Experiments Mengeles experiments were

what he really loved to do. Because he got to choose who lived and who died, he was able to hand pick people he wanted to experiment on. He loved deformities, different skin color, dwarfs, and most of all twins.

Mothers let Mengele take their children because he was so charming that they trusted him. The children trusted him too because he gave them candy and sweets and a better amount of food.

They called the children he experimented on, Mengeles children.

Little did they know of the unthinkable experiments

awaiting them.

He had many murderous policies like drawing a line on the wall five feet from the floor in the children’s block and those whose

heads couldn’t reach the line were sent to the gas

chamber.

Mengele attempted to sew a set of twins together in attempt to make Siamese twins

Sometimes Mengele did surgeries without putting

people to sleep or giving them any pain medication. He once

did this while taking apart a patients stomach, and

another time when removing a heart.

He would inject dye

into patients eyes in

attempt to change

the color. In these

experiments at least

one child would

always end up blind

In the case of twins

he would inject one

with a disease and

then kill them both

to see how the

disease affected a

person

Vera Kriegal, a twin who went into the lab

saw a collection of eyeballs displayed on the wall said Jews called him The Angel of

Death, Beautiful Devil, and Jewish Calendar because on Jewish holidays he made sure to do more experiments than usual.

He could kill all those people yet still keep a smirk on his face.

“They were pinned up, like butterflies, I thought I was dead and already living in hell.”

Mengele truly believed that he was among the top scientific

researchers of the day. He was obsessed with his work and

thought everything thing he did was extremely important. He saw no wrong in doing these things because it was jews he

experimented on. In sentencing people to the gas chambers he

once proclaimed, “Away with this shit!”

It is said that three thousand twins passed through Aushwitz, into Mengele’s care. Very few ever left.

Many documents of his experiments were destroyed as the camp was liberated, so we will never know

the true extent of his terror

Unfortunately Mengele evacuated Germany when Aushwitz was liberated. He went to south America where he lived for 35 years under different names

untill he died in 1979. He never received any punishment for his crimes.