"Angel of Death" Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele, the most famous of the Nazi criminal doctors, was born in 1911 in Bavaria. He studied philosophy at the University of Munich and medicine at Frankfurt. In 1934 he joined the CA and became a member of the NSDAP, in 1937 he joined the SS. He worked at the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. The topic of the dissertation is “Morphological studies of the structure of the lower jaw of representatives of four races”.
During World War II he served as a military doctor in the SS division "Viking". In 1942 he received the Iron Cross for rescuing two tankers from a burning tank. After being wounded, SS Hauptsturmführer Mengele was declared unfit for military service and in 1943 was appointed chief physician of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Soon the prisoners called him "the angel of death."
Scientist sadistic doctor
Dr. Josef Mengele
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 also performed another function. With the arrival of Mengele, Auschwitz became a "major research center". Unfortunately, the range of "scientific" interests of Josef Mengele was unusually wide. He began with "works" to "increase the fertility of Aryan women." It is clear that non-Aryan women served as material for research. Then the fatherland set a new, directly opposite task: to find the cheapest and most effective methods of limiting the birth rate of "subhumans" - Jews, gypsies and Slavs. Having crippled tens of thousands of men and women, Mengele came to a “strictly scientific” conclusion: the most reliable way to avoid conception is castration.
"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 “method” of the experiments was the most straightforward: a concentration camp prisoner was taken, covered with ice on all sides, “doctors” in SS uniform constantly measured body temperature ... When the experimental person died, a new one was brought from the barracks. Conclusion: after cooling the body below 30 degrees, 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."
The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - commissioned a study on the topic: "The effect of high altitude on the performance of the pilot." A pressure chamber was built in Auschwitz. Thousands of prisoners took a terrible death: at ultra-low pressure, a person was simply torn apart. Conclusion: it is necessary to build aircraft with a pressurized cabin. But none of these aircraft in Germany took off until the very end of the war.
Josef Mengele, carried away by racial theory in his youth, on his own initiative conducted experiments with eye color. For some reason, he needed to prove in practice that the brown eyes of a Jew under no circumstances could become the blue eyes of a “true Aryan”. He gave hundreds of Jews injections of blue dye - extremely painful and often leading to blindness. Conclusion: it is impossible to turn a Jew into an Aryan.
Tens of thousands of people became victims of Mengele's monstrous experiments. What are some studies of the effects of physical and mental exhaustion on the human body! And the "study" of three thousand infant twins, of which only 200 survived! The twins received blood transfusions and transplanted organs from each other. A lot more was being done. Sisters were forced to have children from brothers. Sex reassignment operations were carried out ...
And before starting his experiments, the “good doctor Mengele” could pat the child on the head, treat him with chocolate ...
The concentration camp prisoners were deliberately infected with various diseases in order to test the effectiveness of new drugs on them. In 1998, one of the former prisoners of Auschwitz sued 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 shortly after the start of the “testing”, the concern additionally acquired another 150 prisoners of Auschwitz, no one could wake up after a new sleeping pill. By the way, other representatives of German business also cooperated with the concentration camp system. The largest chemical concern in Germany, IG Farbenindustry, made not only synthetic gasoline for tanks, but also Zyklon-B gas for the gas chambers of the same Auschwitz. After the war, the giant company was "unbundled". Some of the fragments of IG Farbenindustry are well known in our country. Including as drug manufacturers.
So what did Josef Mengele achieve? In medical terms, the Nazi fanatic failed in the same way as in moral, ethical, human ... Having unlimited opportunities for experiments at his disposal, he still did not achieve anything. It is impossible to consider as a scientific result the conclusion that if a person is not allowed to sleep and not fed, he will first go crazy and then die.
Quiet "departure from grandfather"
In 1945, Josef Mengele carefully destroyed all the collected "data" and escaped from Auschwitz. Until 1949, he quietly worked in his native Gunzburg in his father's company. Then, with new documents in the name of Helmut Gregor, he emigrated to Argentina. He received his passport quite legally, through the Red Cross. In those years, this organization issued passports and travel documents to tens of thousands of refugees from Germany. Perhaps Mengele's fake ID was simply not carefully verified. Moreover, the art of forging documents reached unprecedented heights in the Third Reich.
One way or another, Mengele ended up in South America. In the early 50s, when Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest (with the right to kill him upon arrest), the Nazi criminal moved to Paraguay, where he disappeared from view. Checking all subsequent reports about his future fate showed that they are not true.
After the end of the war, many journalists were looking for at least some information that could put them on the trail of Josef Mengele ... The fact is that for forty years after the end of the Second World War, "fake" Mengele appeared in various places. So, in 1968, a former Brazilian policeman claimed that he allegedly managed to find traces of the "angel of death" on the border of Paraguay and Argentina. Shimon Wiesenthal announced in 1979 that Mengele was hiding in a secret Nazi colony in the Chilean Andes. In 1981, a message appeared in the American Life magazine: Mengele lives in the Bedford Hills area, located fifty kilometers north of New York. And in 1985, in Lisbon, a suicide left a note in which he admitted that it was he who was the wanted Nazi criminal Josef Mengele.
Where was it found
And only in 1985, it seems, it became known about the true whereabouts of Mengele. Or rather, his grave. An Austrian couple living in Brazil reported that Mengele was Wolfgang Gerhard, who had been their neighbor for several years. The couple claimed that six years ago he drowned, that he was then 67 years old, and indicated the location of his grave - the town of Embu.
In the same year, 1985, the remains of the deceased were exhumed. At each stage of this event, three independent panels of forensic experts participated in it, and live television broadcast from the cemetery was received in almost all countries of the world. In the coffin were only the decayed bones of the deceased. However, everyone was looking forward to the results of their identification. For millions of people wanted to know whether these remains really belong to the cruel misanthrope and executioner wanted for many years.
The chances of scientists to establish the identity of the deceased were regarded as quite high. The fact is that they had at their disposal an extensive archive of data on Mengele: since the war, the SS file contained information about his height, weight, skull geometry, and the condition of his teeth. The photographs clearly showed a characteristic gap between the front upper teeth.
Specialists who investigated the burial in Emba had to be very careful when making conclusions. The desire to find Josef Mengele was so great that there had already been cases of his erroneous identification, including falsified ones. Many such deceptions are described in the book Witness From the Grave by Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover, which presents readers with the compelling story of the professional career of Clyde Snow, the chief Embu.
How was he identified
The bones found in the grave were subjected to a thorough and comprehensive examination, which was carried out by three independent groups of experts - from Germany, the USA and from the Shimon Wiesenthal Center, located in Austria.
At the end of the exhumation, scientists examined the grave for the second time in search of possibly fallen dental fillings and bone fragments. Then all parts of the skeleton were taken to Sao Paulo, to the Institute of Forensic Medicine. Here further research continued.
The results obtained, compared with data on the identity of Mengele from the SS file, gave the experts reason to almost certainly consider the examined remains to be those of a wanted war criminal. However, they needed absolute certainty, they needed an argument convincingly confirming such a conclusion. And then Richard Helmer, a West German forensic anthropologist, joined the work of experts. Thanks to his participation, it was possible to brilliantly complete the final stage of the entire operation.
Helmer was able to recreate the appearance of a deceased person from his skull. It was difficult and painstaking work. First of all, it was necessary to mark on the skull the points that were to serve as starting points for restoring the appearance of the face, and to accurately determine the distances between them. After that, the researcher created a computer "image" of the skull. Further, based on his professional knowledge of the thickness and distribution of soft tissues, muscles and skin on the face, he received a new computer image that already clearly reproduced the features of the restored face. The last - and most crucial - moment of the entire procedure came when the face, recreated by computer graphics, was combined with the face in Mengele's photograph. Both images are exactly the same. Thus, it was finally proved that the man who had been hiding in Brazil for many years under the names of Helmut Gregor and Wolfgang Gerhard and who drowned in 1979 at the age of 67 was indeed the "angel of death" of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the cruel Nazi executioner Dr. Josef Mengele.
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With this article, I am starting a new section on the blog - the section of 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 of 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 studied at the best universities in Germany, then still the German Empire. He studied anthropology and medicine, after which he wrote the 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 tasks to their wards, since there was more than enough material for experiments - there was a war going on. 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 some of the psychological features of his behavior and you will understand everything. Josef was very pedantic. When the twins were brought to his laboratory, the assistants measured all parts of their bodies down to a millimeter, physical and psychological indicators, the doctor personally summarized these data in 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 a tall, 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 still used in medical textbooks. Thanks to pedantry and developed intellect, he made a great 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 the human body was obtained during 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. The story of the Jewish family of dwarfs Ovitz, which the scientist perceived as personal pets, became known. 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 stitching together two twins from a gypsy family, the children experienced incredible torment and soon died from 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 requires 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 repeatedly turn a blind eye to his presence, 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.
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Josef Mengele, the most famous of the Nazi criminal doctors, was born in Bavaria in 1911. He studied philosophy at the University of Munich and medicine at Frankfurt. In 1934 he joined the SA and became a member of the National Socialist Party, in 1937 he joined the SS. He worked at the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. Dissertation topic: "Morphological studies of the structure of the lower jaw of representatives of four races."
After the outbreak of World War II, he served as a military doctor in the SS division "Viking" in France, Poland and Russia. In 1942 he received the Iron Cross for rescuing two tankers from a burning tank. After being wounded, SS Hauptsturmführer Mengele was declared unfit for military service and in 1943 was appointed chief physician of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The prisoners soon nicknamed him "the angel of death".
Dr. Mengele had to answer the question: how to increase the reproductive capacity of the German people so that it satisfies the needs of the planned large-scale settlement by Germans of the occupied regions of the countries of Eastern Europe. His focus was on the problem of twins, as well as the physiology and pathology of dwarfism. Monozygotic twins were subjected to experiments, mainly children, dwarfs and persons with congenital disabilities. They were searched for among those arriving at the camp.
Tens of thousands of people became victims of Mengele's monstrous experiments. What are some studies of the effects of physical and mental exhaustion on the human body! And the "study" of 3,000 infant twins, of which only 200 survived! The twins received blood transfusions and transplanted organs from each other. Sisters were forced to have children from brothers. Sex reassignment operations were carried out. Before starting the experiments, the kind doctor Mengele could stroke the child on the head, treat him with chocolate ...
The twins were given blood transfusions from one to the other and x-rayed. The second stage covered a comparative analysis of the internal organs, which was performed during the autopsy. Such an analysis would be difficult to carry out under normal conditions due to the low probability of the simultaneous death of both twins. At the camp, twin comparisons were made hundreds of times. For this purpose, Dr. Mengele killed them with phenol injections. He once led an operation in which two gypsy boys were sewn together to create Siamese twins. The children's hands turned out to be heavily infected at the sites of resection of blood vessels. Mengele usually, without any anesthesia, cut off part of the liver or other vital organs from Jewish children and killed them with monstrous blows to the head if there was a need for a just-dead "guinea pig". He injected chloroform into the hearts of many children, he infected other of his experimental subjects with typhus. Mengele injected many women with pathogenic bacteria into the ovaries. Some twins with different eye colors had colorants injected into their eye sockets and pupils to change eye color and explore the possibility of producing blue-eyed Aryan twins. In the end, the children were left with granular clots instead of eyes.
The Wehrmacht ordered a topic: to find out everything about the effects of cold on the body of a soldier (hypothermia). The experimental methodology was the most straightforward: a prisoner from a concentration camp is taken, covered with ice on all sides, "doctors" in SS uniform constantly measure body temperature ... When an experimental person dies, a new one is brought from the barracks. Conclusion: after cooling the body below 30 degrees, 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."
In 1945, Josef Mengele carefully destroyed all the collected "data" and escaped from Auschwitz. Until 1949, Mengele worked quietly in his native Gunzburg at his father's firm. Then, according to new documents in the name of Helmut Gregor, he emigrated to Argentina. He received his passport quite legally, through... the Red Cross. In those years, this organization provided charity, issued passports and travel documents to tens of thousands of refugees from Germany. It is possible that Mengele's fake ID was simply not thoroughly verified. Moreover, the art of forging documents in the Third Reich reached unprecedented heights.
One way or another, Mengele ended up in South America. In the early 50s, when Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest (with the right to kill him upon arrest), Iozef moved to Paraguay. However, all this was, rather, a sham, a game of catching the Nazis. All with the same passport in the name of Gregor, Josef Mengele repeatedly visited Europe, where his wife and son remained. The Swiss police watched his every move - and did nothing.
The terrible experiments on people by Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death of Auschwitz", did not end after his flight to South America. His dream came true. A new book by Argentinean historian Jorge Camaraza, Mengele: The Angel of Death in South America, has just been released, claiming that Josef Mengele's experiments did not end after he fled to South America after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. There is evidence that the "Angel of Death of Auschwitz" continued his terrible experiments in Brazil, in a small town that later received the nickname "Twin City".
Josef Mengele managed a lot in his life: to live a happy childhood, get an excellent education at the university, make a happy family, raise children, get to know the taste of war and front-line life, engage in "scientific research", many of which were important for modern medicine, since vaccines against various diseases were developed, and many other useful experiments were carried out that would not have been possible in a democratic state (in fact, the crimes of Mengele, like many of his colleagues, made a huge contribution to medicine), finally, being already on the run, Josef received a quiet rest on the sandy shores of Latin America. Already on this well-deserved rest, Mengele was repeatedly forced to remember his past affairs - he repeatedly read articles in newspapers about his search, about a fee of 50,000 US dollars assigned for providing information about his whereabouts, about his atrocities with prisoners. Reading these articles, Josef Mengele could not hide his sarcastic sad smile, for which he was remembered by many of his victims - after all, he was in full view, swam on public beaches, conducted active correspondence, visited entertainment establishments. And he could not understand the accusations of committed atrocities - he always looked at his experimental subjects only as material for experiments. He did not see the difference between the experiments he did at school on beetles and those he did at Auschwitz.
In Brazil, he lived until February 7, 1979, when he suffered a stroke while swimming in the sea, as a result of which he drowned.
The German doctor Josef Mengele is known in world history as the most cruel Nazi criminal who subjected tens of thousands of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp to inhuman experiments.
For his crimes against humanity, Mengele has forever earned the nickname "Doctor Death".
Origin
Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in Bavaria, in Gunzburg. The ancestors of the future fascist executioner were ordinary German farmers. Father Carl founded the agricultural equipment company Carl Mengele & Sons. The mother was involved in raising three children. When Hitler came to power with the Nazi party, the wealthy Mengele family began to actively support him. Hitler protected the interests of the very farmers on whom the well-being of this family depended.
Josef was not going to continue his father's work and went to study as a doctor. He studied at the Vienna and Munich universities. In 1932, he joined the ranks of the Nazi stormtroopers "Steel Helmet", but soon left this organization due to health problems. After graduating from the university, Mengele received a doctorate. He wrote his dissertation on the topic of racial differences in the structure of the jaw.
Military service and professional activities
In 1938, Mengele joined the SS and at the same time the Nazi Party. With the outbreak of war, he entered the reserve troops of the SS Panzer Division, rose to the rank of SS Hauptsturmführer and received an iron cross for rescuing 2 soldiers from a flaming tank. After being wounded in 1942, he was declared unfit for further service in the active troops and went to "work" in Auschwitz.
In the concentration camp, he decided to realize his lifelong dream of becoming an outstanding doctor and research scientist. Mengele calmly justified Hitler's sadistic views with scientific expediency: he believed that if inhuman cruelty is needed for the development of science and the breeding of a "pure race", then it can be forgiven. This view translated into thousands of crippled lives and even more deaths.
In Auschwitz, Mengele found the most fertile ground for his experiments. The SS not only did not control, but even encouraged the most extreme forms of sadism. In addition, the killing of thousands of gypsies, Jews and other people of the "wrong" nationality was the primary task of the concentration camp. Thus, in the hands of Mengele was a huge amount of "human material", which was supposed to be spent. "Doctor death" could do whatever he wanted. And he created.
Experiments "doctor death"
Josef Mengele has conducted thousands of monstrous experiments over the years of his activity. He amputated body parts and internal organs without anesthesia, sewed twins together, injected children with poisonous chemicals into the eyes to see if the color of the iris would change after that. Prisoners were deliberately infected with smallpox, tuberculosis and other diseases. They tested all new and untested medicines, chemicals, poisons and poisonous gases.
Most of all, Mengele was interested in various developmental anomalies. A huge number of experiments were carried out on dwarfs and twins. Of the latter, about 1,500 couples were subjected to his brutal experiments. About 200 people survived.
All operations for the fusion of people, removal and transplantation of organs were performed without anesthesia. The Nazis did not consider it expedient to spend expensive medicines on "sub-humans." Even if the patient survived after the experience, he was expected to be destroyed. In many cases, the autopsy of the body was performed at a time when the person was still alive and felt everything.
After the war
After Hitler's defeat, "doctor death", realizing that he was facing execution, did his best to hide from persecution. In 1945, he was detained in the form of a private near Nuremberg, but then released because they could not identify him. After that, Mengele hid for 35 years in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. All this time, the Israeli intelligence MOSSAD was looking for him and several times was close to catching him.
It was not possible to arrest the cunning Nazi. His grave was discovered in Brazil in 1985. In 1992, the body was exhumed and proved that it belongs to Josef Mengele. Now the remains of a sadistic doctor are at the Medical University of São Paulo.
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. It was the new doctor of Auschwitz, Josef Mengele, after being wounded, declared unfit for service in the 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 suitable people with his unchanging stack. 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 a smart, well-groomed man with a kind smile, in a well-fitted and ironed dark green tunic and in a cap, which he wore slightly to one side; black boots polished to a perfect shine. One of the prisoners of Auschwitz Christina Zhivulskaya will write later: "He looked like a film actor - a sleek, pleasant face with regular features. Tall, slender ...". For his smile and pleasant, 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 else to deal with typhus in such conditions, Mengele could not think of.
Before the war, Josef Mengele studied medicine and even defended his thesis on "Racial Differences in the Structure of the Lower Jaw" in 1935, and later received his doctorate. Genetics was of particular interest to him, and in Auschwitz he showed the greatest degree of interest in 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 managed to sterilize a whole group of nuns using X-rays.
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 the eyes of children 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" in order to fix common signs and differences, and then the experiments of the doctor himself came into play. Children were amputated limbs and transplanted various organs, infected with typhus and transfused with blood. Mengele wanted to track how the identical organisms of the twins would 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 the 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 physician of the women's barracks, to which he was appointed by Eduard Wirths, the chief physician of Auschwitz, who later described Mengele as a responsible employee who sacrificed his personal time to devote his 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 it can greatly help wounded German soldiers in hospitals. This was recalled by another former prisoner of 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.
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For Mengele, work in a concentration camp was a kind of scientific mission, and the experiments that he performed on prisoners were, from his point of view, for the benefit of science. Many tales are told about Dr. "Death", and one of them is that the eyes of children "decorated" his office. 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, 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 gave lethal injections to test 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 were finally convinced that it was Josef Mengele who had earned his reputation as one of the most terrible and dangerous Nazis in this grave.
Creature!!!
G_Fox 06.04.2010 07:03:22
It is a pity that he died easily, he would have been fed to the ants alive !!!
Josef Mengele
Vovan 10.05.2016 10:23:16
In fact, many doctors look at people like meat. The district hospitals are full of doctors sending old people without relatives and money to the morgue, not wanting to overwork helping them, and taking advantage of complete impunity, though without scientific goals. In the concentration camp, people were still processed for fertilizers, and Mengele, with the rationality of a robot, used them as material for scientific purposes. The ideology of the superiority of some people over others is a terrible thing
He is a creature!
Ivan 09.06.2017 04:57:22
Yaroslav, you should be given to him for experiments!
Deception of the millennium.
Leeb 17.08.2017 03:28:22
And the most interesting thing was not said that Mendele was a Jew. And Hitler was a Jew. Goebbels - the main propagandist of the 3rd Reich, was also a Jew and his wife belonged to God's chosen ones. And the result? The most competent scam of millennia called the Holocaust. The Jews received the state of Israel as a gift, multimillion-dollar payments and a green light for them everywhere. Bravo.
Mengele created in the name of science and self-education. It's worth recognizing this. It’s just that a person has an iron will and an unprecedented passion for his profession. Not everyone has been given this yet.
To be afraid of bones, corpses ... what kind of nonsense? We all have bones and we will all be corpses someday. Please note. Disgustingly accurate, hehehehe :))
oh what mother's cynics have gathered here ...
Thrgathering 26.06.2018 11:13:57
Especially Ms. Morgenstern.
So she tries to highlight the fact that she is fearless and cold-blooded. Unfortunately, on the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone. Even an admirer of Dr. Mengele. You, dear, are still too young in mind to be aware of such things as life and death. When you go to honey, unlearn, get married. You will view your work in a completely different way and relate to life and death in a completely different way. It will seem to you that such cynical (empty) statements are nothing more than the stupidity of an absurd, narrow-minded girl who has seen enough films about divergents and considers herself special.
My advice to you is to become well acquainted with such things as psychology (in particular, cognitive distortions and the mechanisms of our psyche) and you yourself will understand that such stupid impulses are nothing more than an empty phrase and a desire for self-realization where it will never be.
