Now many are wondering if Josef Mengele was not a simple sadist who, in addition to scientific work, enjoyed watching the suffering of people. Those who worked with him said that Mengele, to the surprise of many colleagues, sometimes did it himself lethal injections test subjects, beat them and threw capsules with lethal gas into the cells, watching the prisoners die.
On the territory of the Auschwitz concentration camp there is a large pond where the unclaimed ashes of the prisoners burned in the crematorium ovens were dumped. The rest of the ash was transported by wagons to Germany, where it was used as fertilizer for the soil. In the same wagons, new prisoners were carried for Auschwitz, who were personally greeted on arrival by a tall, smiling young man who was barely 32 years old. This was new doctor Auschwitz Josef Mengele, after being wounded declared unfit for service in active army. He appeared with his retinue in front of the newly arrived prisoners to select "material" for his monstrous experiments. The prisoners were stripped naked and lined up in a row along which Mengele walked, now and then pointing at the right people with its immutable stack
ohm. He also decided who to immediately send to the gas chamber, and who else could work for the good of the Third Reich. Death is to the left, life is to the right. Sickly-looking people, old people, women with babies - Mengele, as a rule, sent them to the left with a careless movement of a stack squeezed in his hand.
Former prisoners, when they just arrived at the station to enter the concentration camp, Mengele was remembered as fit, well-groomed man with kind smile, in a well-fitted and ironed dark green tunic and a cap, which he wore slightly to one side; black boots polished to a perfect shine. One of the prisoners of Auschwitz, Kristina Zhivulskaya, wrote later: "He looked like a film actor - a sleek, pleasant face with regular features. Tall, slim...
his smile and pleasantly courteous manner, which did not fit in with his inhuman experiences, the prisoners nicknamed Mengele the "Angel of Death". He conducted his experiments on people in block number 10. "No one ever got out of there alive," says former prisoner Igor Fedorovich Malitsky, who ended up in Auschwitz at the age of 16.
The young doctor began his work in Auschwitz by stopping the typhus epidemic, which he discovered in several gypsies. To prevent the disease from spreading to other prisoners, he sent the entire barracks (more than a thousand people) to the gas chamber. Later, typhus was found in the women's barracks, and this time the entire barracks - about 600 women - also went to their deaths. How to deal with typhus differently in such conditions, Mengel
could not think of.
Before the war, Josef Mengele studied medicine and even defended his thesis on " Racial differences structures mandible"in 1935, and a little later received doctoral degree. Genetics was of particular interest to him, and in Auschwitz greatest degree he showed interest in the twins. He performed experiments without resorting to anesthetics and dissected live babies. He tried to stitch twins together, change their eye color with chemicals; he pulled out teeth, implanted them and built new ones. In parallel with this, the development of a substance capable of causing infertility was carried out; he castrated boys and sterilized women. According to some reports, he succeeded with the help of x-ray radiation sterilize a whole group of monks
Mengele's interest in twins was not accidental. The Third Reich set scientists the task of increasing the birth rate, as a result of which the artificial increase in the birth of twins and triplets became the main task of scientists. However, the offspring of the Aryan race had to have blond hair and Blue eyes- hence Mengele's attempts to change the color of children's eyes through various chemicals. After the war, he was going to become a professor and for the sake of science he was ready for anything.
The twins were carefully measured by the assistants of the "Angel of Death" to fix common signs and differences, and then the experiments of the doctor himself came into play. Children's limbs were amputated and transplanted various bodies, infected with typhus and transfused blood. Mengele wanted to trace
how identical organisms of twins will react to the same intervention in them. Then the experimental subjects were killed, after which the doctor conducted a thorough analysis of the corpses, examining internal organs.
He launched a rather violent activity, and therefore many mistakenly considered him the chief doctor of the concentration camp. In fact, Josef Mengele held the position of senior doctor of the women's barracks, to which he was appointed by Eduard Wirts - chief physician Auschwitz, who later described Mengele as a responsible employee who sacrificed his personal time to devote it to self-education, exploring the material that the concentration camp had.
Mengele and his colleagues believed that hungry children have very pure blood, which means that she
There is a lot to help the wounded German soldiers in hospitals. This was mentioned by another former prisoner Auschwitz Ivan Vasilievich Chuprin. The newly arrived very young children, the eldest of whom were 5-6 years old, were herded into block number 19, from which screams and crying could be heard for some time, but soon there was silence. The blood from the young prisoners was pumped out completely. And in the evening, prisoners returning from work saw piles of children's bodies, which were later burned in dug pits, the flames from which burst up several meters.
For Mengele, working in a concentration camp was a kind of scientific mission, and the experiments that he put on the prisoners were carried out, from his point of view, for the benefit of science. Many tales are told about Doctor "Death"
and one of them - that his office was "decorated" by the eyes of children. In fact, as one of the doctors who worked with Mengele in Auschwitz recalled, he could stand for hours near a row of test tubes, examining the materials obtained under a microscope, or spend time at the anatomical table, opening the bodies, in an apron stained with blood. He considered himself a real scientist, whose goal was something more than eyes hanging all over the office.
The doctors who worked with Mengele noted that they hated their work, and in order to somehow relieve tension, they got completely drunk after a working day, which could not be said about Dr. Death himself. It seemed that his work did not tire him at all.
Now many are wondering if Josef Mengele was not a simple sadist who
To whom, in addition to scientific work, it was a pleasure to observe the suffering of people. Those who worked with him said that Mengele, to the surprise of many colleagues, sometimes lethally injected his subjects himself, beat them and threw capsules with lethal gas into the cells while watching the prisoners die.
After the war, Josef Mengele was declared a war criminal, but he managed to escape. He spent the rest of his life in Brazil, and February 7, 1979 was his last day - while swimming, he had a stroke and drowned. His grave was found only in 1985, and after the exhumation of the remains in 1992, they finally became convinced that it was Josef Mengele who had earned himself a reputation as one of the most terrible and dangerous Nazis in this grave.
This article is where I start new section on the blog - section wonderful people. This will include biographies of some personalities, maniacs, murderers, scientists who in one way or another had a hand in the death or torment of people. And let it not seem strange to you that I put all of the above on a par, because if a psychopath has no education and power, he becomes a maniac, and if he has, he already becomes a scientist. And this section opens with Josef Mengele, a man who has become a terrible legend.
Since there is a goal to write a complete and detailed article, I will break the text into several parts.
- Biography
- Ideology
- Psyche
- Mengele's experiments
- Escape from justice
Biography of Josef Mengele
He was born on March 16, 1911 in Bavaria in the family of a prominent businessman, as they say now. His father founded a farming equipment company called Carl Mengele & Sons. Yes, the Angel of Death had a full-fledged family, there were parents, there were also brothers. Father - Karl Mengele, mother - Walburgi Hapfaue, two brothers - Alois and Karl. From the memoirs of the scientist himself, if he can be called that, a cruel matriarchy reigned in the family. Everything obeyed the routine, which was established by the mother of the family. She often humiliated her husband in front of her children, quarreled with him about financial and social issues. There is information that when Karl bought a car, his wife sawed him for a long time and cruelly for embezzlement family funds. Josef also recalls that both parents did not show much love for children, they demanded unquestioning obedience, diligence and diligence in their studies. Maybe this is one of the reasons why Mengele's experiments will make whole generations of people horrified in the future.
The future doctor of Auschwitz was trained in best universities Germany, then German Empire. He studied anthropology and medicine, after which he wrote scientific work"Racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw" in 1935, and already in 1938 he received his doctorate.
In the same year, the doctor joined the SS army, where he was awarded the Iron Cross and the title of Hauptsturmführer for rescuing two wounded soldiers from a burning tank. A year later, he was injured and was transferred to the reserve due to a discrepancy in health. He became a doctor at Auschwitz in 1943, and in twenty-one months he managed to kill and torture hundreds of prisoners.
Ideology
Naturally, the root cause of such a brutal attitude towards people was ideology. At that time, many questions worried the German authorities, and they gave various scientific assignments to his wards, the benefit of the material for conducting experiments was more than enough - there was a war. Josef believed that the only worthy race, the Aryans, should become the leader on the planet and control all the others,
Psyche
I do not have the education to make any diagnosis to the doctor. I will just list a few psychological features his behavior and you will understand everything. Josef was very pedantic. When the twins were brought into his laboratory, the assistants measured all parts of their bodies to the millimeter, physical and psychological indicators, the doctor himself compiled these data into huge tables filled with calligraphic even handwriting. There were hundreds of such tables. He did not drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. He often looked in the mirror, because he considered his appearance to be ideal, he even refused to get a tattoo, which at that time was done to all purebred Aryans. The reason is the reluctance to spoil the perfect skin.Prisoners of Auschwitz remember him as tall, self-confident young man with perfect posture. The form is patiently ironed, and the shoes are polished to a shine. Smiling, always in a good mood, he could send people to their deaths and hum a simple melody under his breath.
There is a known case when he grabbed a Jewish woman by the throat who was trying to escape the gas chamber and began to beat her, striking her in the face and stomach. In a few minutes, the woman's face turned into a bloody mess, and when it was all over, the doctor calmly washed his hands and returned to his business. Nerves of steel and a pedantic approach to business defined him as the perfect psychopath.
Mengele's experiments
To write this article, I shoveled a bunch of information on the net and was surprised by what people write about Josef. Yes, he was a ruthless psychopath who killed hundreds of people, but the results of many experiments are used in medical textbooks still. Thanks to pedantry and developed intellect, he contributed huge contribution to the science of the human body. And his activities concerned not only dwarfs and twins. At the beginning of his, so to speak, career, Mengele conducted experiments to find out the limits of human capabilities and options for resuscitation of the victims. In the laboratory, they were interested in frostbite, when a person was covered with ice and biometric indicators were measured until death, and sometimes they tried to resuscitate. When one of the prisoners died, they brought another.
Above is one of the experiments with cold water.
Much of the data on dehydration, drowning, and the effects of G-forces on human body were received at that black time. Mengele's experiments also concerned various diseases, such as cholera and hepatitis. Obtaining such results would not have been possible without the incredible number of human victims.Of course, most of all the doctor was interested in genetics. He selected among the prisoners people with various congenital abnormalities - dwarfs and invalids, as well as twins. Became famous story with the Jewish family of dwarfs Ovitz, which the scientist perceived as personal pets. He named them after the seven dwarfs from Snow White, provided them with good food and maintenance between inhuman experiments.
The Ovitz family is pictured above. It is not clear what could make these people smile.
In general, his last works were divided into two types: how to make an Aryan woman give birth to two children at once instead of one, and how to limit the birth rate of objectionable races. People were castrated without anesthesia, sex changed, sterilized with X-rays, shocked to understand the limit of endurance. The twins were stitched together, blood was transfused and organs were transplanted from one to the other. There is a known case of fusion of two twins from gypsy family, the children experienced incredible torment and soon died of blood poisoning. For the entire time of the experiments, out of more than sixteen thousand twins, no more than three hundred people survived.Escape from justice
Human nature demands that the perpetrator of such acts be punished, but Josef avoided this. Fearing that the enemies of the Aryan race will use the results of the experiments, he collected invaluable data and, dressed in a soldier's uniform, left the camp. All the wards were supposed to be destroyed, but Cyclone-B ended, and then the Soviet troops saved the lucky ones. So the long-awaited freedom was given to the Ovitz family of dwarfs and another 168 twins. What about our doctor? He left Germany and traveled to South America on fake passports. There, he developed paranoia, moved from place to place, and even a reward of $ 50,000 did not make the special services catch him. I think the reason for this indulgence was the very medical data that he possessed. Thus, the tanned and contented doctor died in Brazil in 1979 of a stroke in the water. Mengele never got punished. Could the secret services turn a blind eye to his presence more than once, because according to some reports, Joseph had a family in Europe and he visited them? This we will never know. In any case, Mengele's experiments, the results of which are still recorded in medical publications, make the hair move in all places. Sometimes sadism, a developed mind and power give rise to a really explosive cocktail of cruelty and impunity.What do you think of these experiences? Was it worth it and does it justify the Angel of Death? Write below in the comments.
Interested historical figures? Read the whole truth about the bloodthirsty
The Auschwitz prisoners were released four months before the end of World War II. By that time there were few of them left. Almost one and a half million people died, most of them were Jews. For several years, the investigation continued, which led to terrible discoveries: people not only died in gas chambers, but also became victims of Dr. Mengele, who used them as guinea pigs.
Auschwitz: the history of one city
A small Polish town, in which more than a million innocent people were killed, is called Auschwitz all over the world. We call it Auschwitz. Concentration camp, experiments on women and children, gas chambers, torture, executions - all these words have been associated with the name of the city for more than 70 years.
It will sound rather strange in Russian Ich lebe in Auschwitz - "I live in Auschwitz." Is it possible to live in Auschwitz? They learned about the experiments on women in the concentration camp after the end of the war. Over the years, new facts have been discovered. One is scarier than the other. The truth about the camp called shocked the whole world. Research is still ongoing today. Many books have been written and many films have been made on the subject. Auschwitz has entered our symbol of a painful, difficult death.
Where did massacres children and conducted terrible experiments on women? In Which city do millions of inhabitants on earth associate with the phrase "factory of death"? Auschwitz.
Experiments on people were carried out in a camp located near the city, which today is home to 40,000 people. It's calm locality with good climate. Auschwitz for the first time historical documents mentioned in the twelfth century. In the XIII century there were already so many Germans here that their language began to prevail over Polish. AT XVII century The city was taken over by the Swedes. In 1918 it became Polish again. After 20 years, a camp was organized here, on the territory of which crimes took place, the likes of which mankind had not yet known.
Gas chamber or experiment
In the early forties, the answer to the question of where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located was known only to those who were doomed to death. Unless, of course, do not take into account the SS. Some of the prisoners, fortunately, survived. Later they talked about what happened within the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Experiments on women and children, which were conducted by a man whose name terrified the prisoners, is terrible truth which not everyone is ready to listen to.
The gas chamber is a terrible invention of the Nazis. But there are things even worse. Christina Zhivulskaya is one of the few who managed to get out of Auschwitz alive. In her book of memoirs, she mentions a case: a prisoner, sentenced to death by Dr. Mengel, does not go, but runs into the gas chamber. Because death from poisonous gas is not as terrible as the torment from the experiments of the same Mengele.
The creators of the "factory of death"
So what is Auschwitz? This is a camp that was originally intended for political prisoners. The author of the idea is Erich Bach-Zalewski. This man had the rank of SS Gruppenfuehrer, during the Second World War he led punitive operations. With his light hand Dozens were sentenced to death. He accepted Active participation in the suppression of the uprising that took place in Warsaw in 1944.
The assistants of the SS Gruppenfuehrer found a suitable place in a small Polish town. There were already military barracks here, in addition, it was well established railway communication. In 1940, a man named came here. He will be hanged by the gas chambers by decision of the Polish court. But this will happen two years after the end of the war. And then, in 1940, Hess liked these places. He set to work with great enthusiasm.
Inhabitants of the concentration camp
This camp did not immediately become a "factory of death". At first, mainly Polish prisoners were sent here. Only a year after the camp was organized, a tradition appeared to display a prisoner on the arm. serial number. More and more Jews were brought in every month. By the end of the existence of Auschwitz, they accounted for 90% of total number prisoners. The number of SS men here also grew steadily. In total, the concentration camp received about six thousand overseers, punishers and other "specialists". Many of them were put on trial. Some disappeared without a trace, including Josef Mengele, whose experiments terrified the prisoners for several years.
We will not give the exact number of victims of Auschwitz here. Let's just say that more than two hundred children died in the camp. Most of them were sent to the gas chambers. Some fell into the hand of Josef Mengele. But this man was not the only one who conducted experiments on people. Another so-called doctor is Carl Clauberg.
Beginning in 1943, the camp received great amount prisoners. Most should have been destroyed. But the organizers of the concentration camp were practical people, and therefore decided to take advantage of the situation and use certain part prisoners as material for research.
Carl Cauberg
This man supervised the experiments conducted on women. His victims were predominantly Jews and Gypsies. The experiments included the removal of organs, the testing of new drugs, and irradiation. What kind of person is Karl Cauberg? Who is he? In what family did you grow up, how was his life? And most importantly, where did the cruelty that goes beyond human understanding come from?
By the beginning of the war, Karl Cauberg was already 41 years old. In the twenties, he served as chief physician at the clinic at the University of Königsberg. Kaulberg was not a hereditary doctor. He was born into a family of artisans. Why he decided to connect his life with medicine is unknown. But there is evidence according to which, in the First World War, he served as an infantryman. Then he graduated from the University of Hamburg. Apparently, medicine fascinated him so much that military career he refused. But Kaulberg was not interested in medicine, but in research. In the early forties, he began searching for the most practical way sterilization of women who were not of the Aryan race. For experiments, he was transferred to Auschwitz.
Kaulberg's experiments
The experiments consisted of introducing a special solution into the uterus, which led to serious violations. After the experiment reproductive organs retired and went to Berlin for further research. There is no data on exactly how many women became victims of this "scientist". After the end of the war, he was captured, but soon, just seven years later, oddly enough, he was released according to an agreement on the exchange of prisoners of war. Returning to Germany, Kaulberg did not suffer from remorse at all. On the contrary, he was proud of his "achievements in science." As a result, complaints began to come in from people who had suffered from Nazism. He was arrested again in 1955. He spent even less time in prison this time. He died two years after his arrest.
Josef Mengele
The prisoners called this man "the angel of death". Josef Mengele personally met the trains with new prisoners and conducted the selection. Some went to the gas chambers. Others are at work. The third he used in his experiments. One of the prisoners of Auschwitz described this man as follows: "Tall, with a pleasant appearance, like a movie actor." He never raised his voice, he spoke politely - and this terrified the prisoners in particular.
From the biography of the Angel of Death
Josef Mengele was the son of a German entrepreneur. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and anthropology. In the early thirties, he joined the Nazi organization, but soon, for health reasons, left it. In 1932, Mengele joined the SS. During the war, he served in the medical troops and even received the Iron Cross for bravery, but was wounded and declared unfit for service. Mengele spent several months in the hospital. After recovery, he was sent to Auschwitz, where he launched his scientific activities.
Selection
Selecting victims for experiments was Mengele's favorite pastime. The doctor only needed one look at the prisoner in order to determine the state of his health. He sent most of the prisoners to the gas chambers. And only a few captives managed to delay death. It was hard to deal with those in whom Mengele saw "guinea pigs."
Most likely, this person suffered extreme form mental disorder. He enjoyed even the thought that he had in his hands a huge amount of human lives. That is why he was always next to the arriving train. Even when it was not required of him. His criminal actions were guided not only by the desire for scientific research, but also by the desire to rule. Just one word of his was enough to send tens or hundreds of people to the gas chambers. Those that were sent to the laboratories became the material for experiments. But what was the purpose of these experiments?
Invincible faith in the Aryan utopia, explicit psychical deviations- these are the components of the personality of Josef Mengele. All his experiments were aimed at creating a new tool that could stop the reproduction of representatives of objectionable peoples. Mengele not only equated himself with God, he placed himself above him.
Josef Mengele's experiments
The angel of death dissected babies, castrated boys and men. He performed operations without anesthesia. Experiments on women consisted of high voltage shocks. He conducted these experiments in order to test endurance. Mengele once sterilized several Polish nuns with X-rays. But the main passion of the "doctor of death" was experiments on twins and people with physical defects.
To each his own
On the gates of Auschwitz was written: Arbeit macht frei, which means "work sets you free." The words Jedem das Seine were also present here. Translated into Russian - "To each his own." On the gates of Auschwitz, at the entrance to the camp, in which more than a million people died, a saying of the ancient Greek sages appeared. The principle of justice was used by the SS as the motto of the most cruel idea in the history of mankind.
Josef Mengele
In world history, many facts are known about bloody dictators, rulers and tyrants, distinguished by particular cruelty and violence, who killed millions of innocent people. But special place among them is a man with a seemingly peaceful and most humane profession, namely the doctor Josef Mengele, who in his cruelty and sadism surpassed many famous killers and maniacs.
Curriculum vitae
Josef was born on March 16, 1911 in German city Gunzburg in the family of an agricultural machinery manufacturer. He was the eldest child in the family. The father was constantly busy with affairs at the factory, and the mother was distinguished by a rather strict and despotic character, both to the factory staff and to her own children.
At school, little Mengele studied well, as befits a child of a strict Catholic upbringing. Continuing his studies at the universities of Vienna, Bonn and Munich, he studied medicine and at the age of 27 he received a medical degree. Two years later, Mengele joined the ranks of the SS troops, where he was appointed to the post of doctor in the sapper unit and rose to the rank of Hauptsturmführer. In 1943, he was commissioned for injury and appointed as a doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
welcome to Hell
To most of the surviving victims of the "Death Factory", as Auschwitz was called, Mengele, at their first meeting, seemed to be a fairly humane young man: tall, with a sincere smile on his face. He always smelled of expensive cologne, and uniform was perfectly ironed, boots are always polished. But these were only illusions about humanity.
As soon as new batches of prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, the doctor lined them up, stripped them naked and slowly walked among the prisoners, looking for suitable victims for his monstrous experiments. Those who were sick, the elderly and many women with babies in their arms, the doctor determined in the gas chambers. Only those prisoners who were able to work, Mengele left alive. Thus began hell for hundreds of thousands of people.
The "Angel of Death", as the prisoners called Mengele, began his bloody activities with the destruction of all the gypsies and several barracks with women and children. The reason for such bloodthirstiness was the typhus epidemic, with which the doctor decided to fight extremely radically. Imagining himself the arbiter of human destinies, he himself chose who to take life, who to operate on, and who to leave alive. But Josef was especially interested in inhuman experiments on prisoners.
Experiments on prisoners of Auschwitz
Hauptsturmführer Mengele was very interested in genetic changes in the body. In his opinion, torture was carried out for the benefit of the Third Reich and the science of genetics. So he looked for ways to increase the birth rate of the superior race and ways to reduce the birth rate of other races.
- To study the effect of cold on German soldiers in the field, the "Angel of Death" surrounded the prisoners of the concentration camp with large pieces of ice and periodically measured their body temperature.
- To determine the maximum critical pressure that a person can withstand, a pressure chamber was created. In it, the prisoners were torn to pieces.
- Also, prisoners of war were given lethal injections to determine endurance.
- Inspired by the idea of destroying non-Aryan nationalities, the doctor performed operations to sterilize women by injecting various chemicals into the ovaries and exposing them to X-rays.
People for Mengele were just biomaterial for work. He easily pulled out teeth, broke out bones, pumped out blood from prisoners for the needs of the Wehrmacht, or performed sex change operations. Especially for the "Angel of Death" were of interest to people with genetic diseases or deviations, for example, such as midgets
Dr. Mengele's experiments on children
Children in the activities of the Hauptsturmführer occupied a special position. Since, according to the ideas of the Third Reich, little Aryans were supposed to have only light skin, eyes and hair, the doctor injected special dyes into the eyes of Auschwitz children. In addition, he conducted experiments, introducing various injections into the heart, forcibly infected children with venereal or infectious diseases, cut out organs, amputated limbs, pulled out teeth and inserted others.
The twins were subjected to the most cruel experiments. When the twins were brought to the concentration camp, they were immediately isolated from other prisoners. Each pair was carefully examined, weighed, measured for height, length of arms, legs and fingers, as well as other physical parameters. At that time, the top leadership of Nazi Germany set the task - so that every healthy Aryan could give birth to two, three or more future Wehrmacht soldiers. "Doctor death" transplanted organs to the twins, pumped blood to each other, while he entered all the data and results of bloody operations into tables and notebooks. Enlightened by the idea of creating a Siamese pair of twins, Mengele performed an operation to sew together two little gypsies, who soon died.
All operations were performed without anesthesia. Children endured unbearable hellish pain. Most of the little prisoners did not live to see the end of the operation, and those who fell ill or were very bad condition after the operation, they were placed in the gas chambers or an anatomical autopsy was performed.
All the results of the experiments were periodically sent to the table higher ranks Germany. Josef Mengele himself often held consultations and conferences at which he read out reports on his work.
The further fate of the executioner
When in April 1945 Soviet troops approached Auschwitz, Hauptsturmführer Mengele quickly left the "factory of death", taking with him his notebooks, notes and tables. Being declared a war criminal, he was able to escape to the West, disguised as an ordinary soldier's uniform. Since no one identified him, and the identity was not established, the doctor avoided arrest, wandering first in Bavaria, and then moved to Argentina. Before the court, the bloody doctor never appeared, fleeing from justice in Paraguay and Brazil. AT South America, "Doctor death" was engaged in medical activities, usually illegal.
Suffering from paranoia, the "Angel of Death" died, according to some sources, on February 7, 1979. The cause of death was a stroke while swimming in the ocean. Only 13 years later, the location of his grave was officially confirmed.
Video about the terrible experiments of the Nazis on prisoners of concentration camps
"Factory of death" Auschwitz (Auschwitz) more and more overgrown with terrible glory. If in the rest of the concentration camps there was at least some hope of surviving, then most of the Jews, Gypsies and Slavs staying in Auschwitz were destined to die either in gas chambers or from overwork and serious illnesses, or from the experiments of a sinister doctor who was one of the first people to meet new arrivals at the train. It was the Auschwitz concentration camp that gained notoriety places where people were experimented on.
Mengele was appointed chief physician in Birkenau - in the inner camp of Auschwitz, where he behaved unambiguously as chief. His skin ambitions haunted him. Only here, in a place where people do not have the slightest hope of salvation, he could feel like the master of fate.
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Participation in the selection was one of his favorite "entertainments". He always came to the train, even when it was not required of him. Constantly looking perfect (as befits the owner of the anal vector), smiling, contented, he decided who would die now and who would go to work.
It was difficult to deceive his keen analytical gaze: Mengele always accurately saw the age and state of health of people. Many women, children under 15, and the elderly were immediately sent to the gas chambers. Only 30 percent of the prisoners were lucky enough to avoid this fate and temporarily delay the date of their death.
Chief physician of Birkenau (one of the inner camps of Auschwitz) and
manager research laboratory Dr. Josef Mengele.
First days in Auschwitz
soundman Josef Mengele craved power over human destinies. It is not surprising that Auschwitz became a real paradise for the Doctor, who was able to exterminate hundreds of thousands of defenseless people at a time, which he demonstrated in the very first days of work in a new place, when he ordered the destruction of 200,000 gypsies.
“On the night of July 31, 1944, there was a terrible scene of the destruction of the gypsy camp. Kneeling before Mengele and Boger, women and children begged for mercy. But it did not help. They were brutally beaten and forced into trucks. It was a terrible, nightmarish sight.", — say surviving eyewitnesses.
Human life has appointed nothing for the Angel of Death. All actions of Mengele were cardinal and merciless. Is there a typhus epidemic in the barracks? So we send the whole barrack to the gas chambers. This is the best remedy stop the disease. Did the women have lice in the barracks? Kill all 750 women! Just think: one thousand objectionable people more, one less.
He chose who would live and who would die, who would be sterilized, who would be operated on... Dr. Mengele didn't just feel equal to God. He put himself in the place of God. A typical crazy idea in a sick sound vector, which, against the backdrop of the sadism of the anal vector, resulted in the idea of erasing objectionable peoples from the face of the earth and creating a new noble Aryan race.
All experiments of the Angel of Death boiled down to two main tasks: to find effective method, which can influence the decline in the birth rate of objectionable races, and by all means increase the birth rate of Aryan healthy children. Just imagine how much pleasure it brought him to stay in a place that other people preferred not to remember at all.
Head of the labor service of the women's unit of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Irma Grese
and his commandant SS Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Josef Kramer
under British escort in the courtyard of the celle prison, Germany.
Mengele also had his associates and followers. One of them was Irma Grese, an anal-muscular-muscular sound worker, a sadist with a sick sound, who worked as a warden in the women's block. The girl enjoyed tormenting the prisoners, she could take the lives of prisoners only because she was in a bad mood.
The first task of Josef Mengele to reduce the birth rate of Jews, Slavs and Gypsies was to develop the most effective method sterilization for men and women. So he operated on boys and men without anesthesia, exposed women to x-rays ...
The opportunity to experiment on innocent people freed the Doctor's sadistic frustrations: it seemed that he enjoyed not so much the sound search for truth, but the inhuman treatment of prisoners. Mengele studied the possibilities of human endurance: he subjected the unfortunate to the test of cold, heat, various infections ...
However, medicine itself did not seem so interesting to the Angel of Death, unlike his beloved eugenics - the science of creating a "pure race".
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1945 Poland. Auschwitz concentration camp. Children, prisoners of the camp, are waiting for their release.
Eugenics, if we turn to encyclopedias, is the doctrine of human selection, i.e. the science that seeks to improve the properties of heredity. Scientists making discoveries in eugenics argue that the human gene pool is degenerating and this must be fought.
In fact, the basis of eugenics, as well as the basis of the phenomena of Nazism and fascism, is anal division into "clean" and "dirty": healthy - sick, good - bad, what is allowed to live, and what can "harm future generations", therefore, does not have the right to exist and reproduce, from which it is necessary to “cleanse” society. Therefore, there are calls to sterilize "defective" people in order to clean up the gene pool.
Before Josef Mengele, as a representative of eugenics, stood important task: to bring out a pure race, it is necessary to understand the reasons for the appearance of people with genetic "anomalies". That is why the Angel of Death was of great interest to dwarfs, giants, various freaks and other people whose deviations are associated with certain disorders in the genes.
So among the "favorites" of Josef Mengele was the Jewish family of Lilliputian musicians Ovits from Romania (and later the Shlomovits family who joined them), for the maintenance of which, by order of the Angel of Death, better conditions were created in the camp.
The Ovits family was interesting to Mengele, first of all, because, along with the Lilliputians, it included ordinary people. The sheep were well fed, allowed to wear their own clothes and not shave their hair. In the evenings, Ovitz entertained Doctor Death by playing musical instruments. Josef Mengele called his "favorites" by the names of the seven dwarfs from "Snow White".
Seven brothers and sisters, originally from the Romanian town of Roswell, lived in the labor camp for almost a year.
One might think that the Angel of Death was attached to the Lilliputians, but it was not so. When it came to experiments, he already treated his “friends” in a completely unfriendly way: the poor people had their teeth and hair pulled out, extracts of cerebrospinal fluid were taken, unbearably hot and unbearably cold substances were poured into their ears, terrible gynecological experiments were performed.
“The most terrible experiments of all [were] gynecological. Only those of us who were married passed through them. We were tied to a table, and systematic torture began. They introduced some objects into the uterus, pumped out blood from there, opened up the insides, pierced us with something and took pieces of samples. The pain was unbearable."
The results of the experiments were sent to Germany. Many learned minds came to Auschwitz to listen to reports by Josef Mengele on eugenics and experiments on midgets. The entire Ovitz family was stripped naked and put in front of large audience like scientific exhibits.
Doctor Mengele twins
"Twins!"- this cry was carried over the crowd of prisoners, when the next twins or triplets timidly clinging to each other were suddenly discovered. They were spared their lives, taken to a separate barrack, where the children were well fed and even given toys. A cute smiling doctor with a steely look often came to them: treated them with sweets, drove around the camp in a car.
However, Mengele did all this not out of sympathy and not out of love for the children, but only with the cold expectation that they would not be afraid of his appearance when the time came for the next twins to go to the operating table. That's the whole price of the initial "luck". "My guinea pigs" called the twin children the terrible and merciless Doctor Death.
Interest in twins was not accidental. Josef Mengele worried main idea: if every German woman, instead of one child, immediately gives birth to two or three healthy ones, the Aryan race will finally be able to be reborn. That is why it was very important for the Angel of Death to study to the smallest detail all the structural features of identical twins. He hoped to understand how to artificially increase the birth rate of twins.
In experiments on twins, 1500 pairs of twins were involved, of which only 200 survived.
The first part of the twin experiments was harmless enough. The doctor had to carefully examine each pair of twins and compare all their body parts. Centimeter by centimeter measured arms, legs, fingers, hands, ears, noses and everything.
Such meticulousness in the study was not accidental. After all, the anal vector, which is available not only for Josef Mengele, but also for many other scientists, does not tolerate haste, but, on the contrary, requires detailed analysis. Every little thing needs to be taken into account.
All measurements Angel of Death scrupulously recorded in the table. Everything, as it should be for the anal vector: on the shelves, neatly, accurately. As soon as the measurements were over, the experiments on the twins moved into another phase.
It was very important to check the body's reactions to certain stimuli. For this, one of the twins was taken: he was injected with some dangerous virus, and the doctor observed: what will happen next? All results were again recorded and compared with the results of the other twin. If a child became very ill and was on the verge of death, then he was no longer interesting: he, while still alive, was either opened or sent to the gas chamber.
The twins were transfused with each other's blood, transplanted internal organs (often from a pair of other twins), injected with coloring segments into the eyes (to test whether brown Jewish eyes could become blue Aryan). Many experiments were carried out without anesthesia. Children screamed, begged for mercy, but nothing could stop the one who imagined himself to be the Creator.
The idea is primary, the life of "little people" is secondary. This in a simple way guided by many unhealthy sound people. Dr. Mengele dreamed of turning the world (in particular the world of genetics) with his discoveries. What does he care about some children!
So the Angel of Death decided to create Siamese twins by sewing gypsy twins together. The children suffered terrible torment, blood poisoning began. Parents could not watch this and strangled the test subjects at night in order to alleviate the suffering.
A little more about Mengele's ideas
Josef Mengele with a colleague at the Institute of Anthropology, Genetics
human and eugenics. Kaiser Wilhelm. Late 1930s.
Doing terrible deeds and spending inhuman experiments above people, Josef Mengele everywhere hides behind science and his idea. At the same time, many of his experiments were not only inhumane, but also meaningless, not carrying any discovery to science. Experiments for the sake of experiments, torture, pain.
My cruelty and Mengele covered his actions with the laws of nature. “We know that natural selection controls nature, exterminating inferior individuals. Weaker ones are excluded from the reproduction process. This is the only way maintaining a healthy human population. AT modern conditions we must protect nature: prevent the defective from multiplying. Such people should be subjected to forced sterilization.”.
People for him are just “human material”, which, like any other material, is divided only into high-quality or low-quality ones. Poor quality and don't mind throwing it away. It can be burned in ovens and poisoned in cells, inflicted inhuman pain and carried out terrible experiments: i.e. be used to create "quality human material", which has not only excellent health and high intelligence, but generally devoid of any "defects".
How to achieve the creation of a higher caste? “There is only one way to achieve this - by selecting the best human material. Everything will end in disaster if the principle natural selection will be rejected. A few gifted people will not be able to withstand a multibillion-dollar mass of idiots. Perhaps the gifted will survive, as the reptiles once survived, and billions of idiots will disappear, as the dinosaurs once disappeared. We must not allow a landslide increase in the number of such idiots. The egocentrism of the sound vector in these lines reaches its climax. A look at other people "from top to bottom", deep contempt and hatred - that's what moved the Doctor.
When the sound vector is in a sick state, any ethical norms begin to shift in a person's head. At the output we get: “From the point of view of ethics, the problem is this: it is necessary to determine in which cases a person should be saved, and in which cases he should be destroyed. Nature has shown us the ideal of truth and the ideal of beauty. What does not correspond to these ideals perishes as a result of the selection arranged by nature itself.
Speaking of the blessings of mankind, the Angel of Death does not at all mean all of humanity as such, for such peoples as Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and others do not at all deserve, in his opinion, life. He feared that if his research were in the hands of the Slavs, they would be able to use the discoveries for the benefit of their people.
That is why Josef Mengele, when the Soviet troops were approaching Germany and the defeat of the Germans was inevitable, in a hurry collected all his tables, notebooks, notes and left the camp, ordering to destroy the traces of his crimes - the surviving twins and midgets.
When the twins were taken to the gas chambers, Zyklon-B suddenly ended, and the execution was postponed. Fortunately, the Soviet troops were already quite close, and the Germans fled.
