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Dr
Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death, was a
Nazi German SS officer and a physician in Auschwitz
Nazi concentration camp. He gained notoriety
chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who
supervised the selection of arriving transports of
prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who
was to become a forced laborer, and for performing
human experiments of dubious scientific value on
camp inmates including attempts to change eye color
by injecting chemicals into children's eyes,
various amputations of limbs, and shock treatments.
Most of those Mengele experimented on died, either
due to the experiments or later infections. On
several occasions, he killed subjects simply to be
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At
the end of the war, Mengele was captured but
paradoxically released from a U.S. detention center and
fled abroad. He remained in hiding in Argentina,
Paraguay, and Brazil until his death of an apparent
drowning in 1979.
Dr.
Mengele's home in Hohenau, Itapua, Paraguay. Photo taken
August 2007.
Mengele
promoted medical experimentation on inmates, especially
dwarfs and twins. He is said to have supervised an
operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn together
to create Siamses twins; the hands of the children became
badly infected where the veins had been resected.
(Snyder)
He
then killed them himself by injecting chloroform into
their hearts, so as to carry out comparative
pathological examinations of their internal organs.
Mengele's purpose, according to Dr. Nyiszli, was to
establish the genetic cause for the birth of twins, in
order to facilitate the formulation of a program for
doubling the birthrate of the 'Aryan' race. The
experiments on twins affected 180 persons, adults and
children.
