Dr Mengele in the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, thousands of doctors went to concentration camps to aid the injured. Approximately 30 doctors were stationed in Auschwitz to tend to the Jews ' wounds and perform necessary surgeries. Out of those doctors came the infamous Josef Mengele, famous for his unique preferences in the medical field. Dr. Mengele 's experiments were cruel, demeaning, and inhumane toward twins. Mengele 's cruelty and fascination for twins led him to be one of the most well-known doctors of the Holocaust. While in Auschwitz Mengele performed various experiments on twins:" (h)e performed vivisection(s), (and) injected chemical(s) into (the twins ') eyes to try to change them..." (Nazi Doctors). A vivisection is when a doctor performs any type of medical examination such as injecting chemicals into the patient 's eyes without giving the patient any type of anesthetic to numb the pain during an operation. Mengele tried to demonstrate anything which could be considered remotely of value in the name of science. To show his cruelty toward twins, one of his experiments," involve(d) (the) newborn babies being taken from their mother and left to starve to death; the next day the limbs (were) removed" (Evil and Medicine). When removing the limbs of the twins, Mengele forced the mother to witness her children being torn apart- limb from limb. Society cannot comprehend how Mengele appeared calm while leaving newborn babies to starve and their distraught mothers to watch. Within Mengele 's experiments on twins, he came across a pair of athletic and handsome twins, and Mengele ordered them to be placed in the examination room. Mengele took his experiments seriously, he examined, "all parts of their heads... (E)xamination took almost days. [Then] they were completely X-rayed. The next part of the examination consisted of tubes being forced through their noses and into their lungs. They were then ventilated with a gas which caused them to cough so severely they had to be

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