Josef Mengele (born March 16, 1911 - died February 7, 1979) is the most famous of the Nazi medical criminals. Chief physician of Auschwitz, who conducted medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. First education - a philosopher, in the 1920s he was imbued with the racial ideology of Alfred Rosenberg. In the concentration camp, he selected healthy Jews to work in industrial enterprises, and sent others to the gas chambers. On prisoners who were especially unlucky, the fanatic doctor conducted experiments in order to find the best way to breed the "right breed" of people. Tens of thousands of prisoners fell victim to the horrific experiments of the murderer. After the war, the Nazi managed to escape.
Origin. Life before Auschwitz
Originally from Günzburg, a small old town on the banks of the Danube, in Bavaria. His father was the owner of a factory for the production of agricultural machinery - "Karl Mengele and Sons", which employed many residents of the town. He studied philosophy at the University of Munich and medicine at Frankfurt. 1934 - joined CA and became a member of the NSDAP. 1937 - joined the SS. He worked at the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene.
During the Second World War, he served as a military doctor in the SS Viking Division. 1942 - was awarded the Iron Cross for rescuing two tankers from a burning tank. After the injury of the SS Hauptsturmführer, Mengele was declared unfit for military service and in 1943 he was appointed chief doctor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Soon, the prisoners called him "the angel of death."
Chief physician of the Auschwitz concentration camp
In addition to their main function - the destruction of representatives of "inferior races", prisoners of war, communists and simply dissatisfied, concentration camps in Nazi Germany performed one more function. With the appointment of Mengele as the head physician of the concentration camp, Auschwitz became "a major research center." Unfortunately, the range of "scientific" interests of Joseph Mengele was very wide.
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Josef Mengele - experiments
Josef Mengele injected harmful drugs into the veins and hearts of prisoners to determine the degree of suffering that could be achieved and to check how quickly they could lead to death.
People were specially infected with various diseases to test the effectiveness of new drugs.
He was doing research on female endurance. Why passed a high voltage current through them. Or, here's the famous case when the "angel of death" sterilized a whole group of Polish Catholic nuns. Do you know how? Using X-rays. I must say that for a sadist, all concentration camp prisoners were “subhuman”.
Even those who managed to survive after his terrible experiments were then killed. This bastard in a white coat felt sorry for the pain reliever, which was, of course, necessary for the "great German army." And all his experiments on living people, including amputations and even dissection (!) Of prisoners, he conducted without anesthesia.
Experiments: increasing and limiting fertility
He began with "work" to "increase the fertility of Aryan women." Of course, non-Aryan women served as material for research. Then a new, directly opposite task was set: the search for the cheapest and most effective methods of limiting the birth rate of "subhumans" - Jews, Gypsies and Slavs. After tens of thousands of men and women were maimed, Josef Mengele made a "strictly scientific" conclusion: the most reliable way to avoid conception is - castration.
Experience: Exposing a Soldier to Cold
"Research" went on as usual. The Wehrmacht ordered a topic: to find out everything about the effects of cold (hypothermia) on the body of soldiers. The "technique" of the experiments was the most straightforward: they took a prisoner, covered them with ice on all sides, the "SS doctors" constantly measured the body temperature … After the subject died, a new one was brought from the barracks. Conclusion: after cooling the body below 30 °, it is most likely impossible to save a person. The best way to warm up is a hot bath and "the natural warmth of the female body."
Experiments: Effect of high altitude on the pilot
The Luftwaffe - the Nazi air force - commissioned a study on the topic: "The effect of high altitude on pilot performance." A pressure chamber was built at Auschwitz. Thousands of prisoners took a terrible death: at ultra-low pressure, a person was simply torn apart. Conclusion: aircraft should be built with a pressurized cockpit. But none of this kind of aircraft in Nazi Germany took off until the very end of the war.
Experiment with eye color
The fanatic doctor, in his youth, carried away by racial theory, on his own initiative began to conduct experiments with eye color. For some reason, he wanted to prove in practice that the brown eyes of a Jew under no circumstances will become the blue eyes of a "true Aryan." He was injected with blue dye to hundreds of Jews - extremely painful and often leading to blindness. Conclusions: it is impossible to turn a Jew into an Aryan.
Experiments with twins
And what is the "study" of 3,000 young twins, of which only 200 people could survive! The twins received blood transfusions and organ transplants from each other. We did a lot of other things. The sisters were forced to bear children from brothers. They performed forced sex reassignment operations …
Before starting his experiments, “kind doctor Mengele” could stroke the child on the head, treat him with a chocolate … We can best judge the character of Dr. Mengele and his human, or rather, devilish, appearance by the following case.
Of the group of twins who were in the study, one child died a "natural" death, and an autopsy revealed some kind of anomaly in the chest organs. Then "greedy for scientific experiments" Josef Mengele immediately decided to establish whether it is possible to find such an anomaly in the surviving twin. He immediately got into the car, drove him to the concentration camp, gave the child a chocolate bar and then, promising to drive him by car, put him in the car. But the "car ride" ended in the courtyard of the Birkenau crematorium. Josef Mengele, together with the child, got out of the car, let the child a few steps forward, pulled out a revolver and almost point-blank shot the unfortunate victim in the back of the head. Then he immediately ordered to take him to the anatomical and there he proceeded to open the still warm corpse to make sureDo twins show the same organ abnormalities!..
So the fanatic doctor decided to create Siamese twins by stitching together gypsy twins. The children endured terrible torment, blood poisoning began.
After the war
After the defeat of the Nazis, the "angel of death", realizing that he would be executed, tried with all his might to hide from persecution. In 1945, he was detained in the uniform of a private near Nuremberg, but then he was released because they could not establish his identity. After that, the fanatic doctor hid for 35 years in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. During all this time, the Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD was looking for him and several times was close to capture.
They could not arrest the sadist. His grave was found in Brazil in 1985. 1992 - The body was exhumed and proven to belong to Josef Mengele. Now the remains of the killer doctor are at the Medical University of São Paulo.
Subsequent events
1998 - A former Auschwitz prisoner sues the German pharmaceutical company Bayer. The creators of aspirin were accused of using concentration camp prisoners during the war to test their sleeping pills. Judging by the fact that soon after the start of the "approbation" the concern acquired an additional 150 prisoners of Auschwitz, no one woke up after taking a new sleeping pill.
It should be noted that other representatives of German business also collaborated with the concentration camp system. The largest German chemical concern IG Farbenindustri produced not only synthetic gasoline for tanks, but also Cyclone-B gas for the gas chambers of the same Auschwitz. Some of the fragments of IG Farbenindustry are well known in the world today. Including as drug manufacturers.