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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 able to
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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.
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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)
"The only firsthand evidence on these experiments comes from a handful of survivors and from a Jewish doctor, Miklos Nyiszli, who worked under Mengele as a pathologist. Mengele subjected his victims - twins and dwarfs aged two and above - to clinical examinations, blood tests, X rays, and anthropological measurements.
In the case of the twins, he considered them to be the perfect specimens as he could use one to observe while torture the other. He first drew sketches of each twin, for comparison. Then, he injected his victims with various substances, dripping chemicals into their eyes (apparently in an attempt to change their color).
Mengele also carried out a large number of experiments in the field of contageous diseases, (typhoid and tuberculosis) to find out how human beings of different races withstood these diseases. He used Gypsy twins for this purpose. Mengele's experiments combined scientific (perhaps even important) research with the racist and ideological aims of the Nazi regime which made use of government offices, scientific institutions, and concentration camps.
From the scanty information available, it appears that his research differed from the other medical experiments in that the victims' death was programmed into his experiments and formed a central element in it."
(Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, 964)
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-49276/docs/auschwitz/block10_.htm
Selected Links:
Dr. Mengele (right) relaxing at Solahutte retreat outside of Auschwitz with Richard Baer (commandant of the Auschwitz Camp) and with other members of the "Master Race."
Josef Mengele (1911-1979)
.- Mengele's Children: The Twins of Auschwitz
- Mengele Surfaced Diary Shows No Regrets Nor Remorse
- How Mengele Was Able to Escape Justice for 34 Years...
- Uncovering Lost Path of Dr. Aribert Heim,
a Most Wanted Nazi Doctor in Egypt
On The Run In South America
...With Nazi sympathizers in Bariloche, Argentina.
...In a remote place in Paraguay.
A closer view of Mengele's home in Hohenau, Itapua, Paraguay.
And, on his last run in Brazil ...
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The fugitive Dr. Mengele (left above, center below) enjoying life in Brazil.
Last known picture of Mengele
.Mengele drowned in 1979 off a São Paulo cost, in the sea side town of Bertioga, Brazil, after suffering a stroke while swimming.
.Retired policeman Expedito Dias Romao was the officer who found Mengele's body.
.Mengele died bearing the false name of Wolfgang Gerhard who was a German friend that lived temporarily in Brazil and who, in 1978 died in Austria.In 1985, at the cemetery in Embu near São Paulo, the cadaver remains of Josef Mengele have been positively identified through rigorous osteometrical and osteological findings coupled with a method of electronic visual mixing for the identification of the skull.
Finally, in 1992, a DNA analysis verfied the findings.
Special Selected Links:
• Mengele Diary Found
• How Mengele Was Able to Escape Justice
