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Josef Mengele
Who was Dr. Josef Mengele? Some call him the angel of death, evil, or maybe even a monster. He was infamous for his many gruesome experiments and tests It was proven that Mengele murdered up to 732 pairs of twins. In this essay you will be learning all about the man named Josef Mengele.
Dr. Josef Mengele made many decisions during the “selecting” process. What was the reasoning behind these decisions, The selecting process occurs when the Jews were deported to concentration camps. The physicians stood outside the train cars where the Jews were, and when they came out he would either send one of them to the gas chamber or keep one of them for labor. “Like other SS doctors there, Mengele had the task of selecting prisoners for the chamber - the vast majority - and for the slave labor force” (Lifton 3).His decisions were based on appearance, if you appeared to be big and burly, then you were to be labeled as useful and kept for work. The small and skinny ones were said to be useless and sent to the gas chambers. As was the same for the healthy and sick, healthy worked, sick were sent to the gas chamber. Dr. Mengele was very interested in the selection process, and every aspect of it. He liked doing it so much that he would volunteer to take the shifts of the other officers because enjoyed bringing prisoners to their death. Mengele conducted many experiments, did he have any variations in doing them? What was the purpose of them? He did tests and experiments on many races and minorities. He was really fascinated by twins. He wanted to know the genetic reasoning of diseases, he worked with identical and fraternal twins. Most interested in Jewish and Roma twins. He had a variety in experiments too, he ran tests on dwarfs, disabled, and abnormally large people.. If he tested and one twin died after an injection he would just murder the other one. He collected an extraordinary amount of twins, a quantity that hasn’t been available to any scientist before. The experiments that he did consisted of measuring body parts and injecting them with diseases. He was mostly famous for running tests of twins more than anything else. When new groups of prisoners came in, he used to force twins out of the group. He would do anything to get his hands on a pair of twins, no matter what it
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The angel of death treated people like lab rats and one of the most reckless people in WWII. People were terrified of Auschwitz and Mengele made it worse once they got there. Josef Mengele did terrible things to people, and no one else should experience what he did.

Works Cited
“Josef Mengele.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060.
“Josef Mengele, The Angel Of Death.” Josef Mengele, The Angel Of Death, www.mengele.dk/.
Lifton, Robert Jay. “WHAT MADE THIS MAN? MENGELE.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 July 1985, www.nytimes.com/1985/07/21/magazine/what-made-this-man-mengele.html?pagewanted=all.
Stockton, Richard. “The Sickening Experiments Of Dr. Josef Mengele, The Nazi ‘Angel Of Death.’” All That's Interesting, 14 Dec. 2017, allthatsinteresting.com/josef-mengele-nazi-experiments.
Walker, Andy. “The Twins of Auschwitz.” BBC News, BBC, 28 Jan. 2015,

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