Dr. Mengele’s twin experiments
Have you ever heard stories of Dr. Mengele, “The Angel of Death’’? Have you listened to any twin survivors interviews talk about their experience in the Holocaust and how it changed them? He was an evil doctor that performed unimaginable experiments on twins during the Holocaust. Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why - perhaps because he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left him paralyzed. He could not walk anymore. They took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi anymore. I cannot tell you how I felt. It is impossible to put into words how I felt. They had taken away my father, my
mother, …show more content…
At six o'clock every morning, no matter what kind of weather, the twins were up for roll call and a very small breakfast. Each twin was examined head to toe, the head examination itself took days. Dr. Mengele made sure that if a doctor missed anything they were punished. They took pictures of the twins to see hair patterns. The twins were forced to stand, bend, and kneel in different ways so the photographs could be taken. Sometimes they were forced to stand with their arms up for many hours so that underarm hair could be photographed. Tubes were forced into their lungs through their nose and they were “ventilated with gas which caused them to cough so severely they had to be restrained.” The twins were basically only used for experiments during the Holocaust, that was their main purpose. Their lives ended shortly after Dr. Mengele was satisfied with the information he collected. When they were done testing them, after about three weeks, they were sent off to be murdered and dissected. Then their organs were sent to the Institute of Biological Racial and Evolutionary research Berlin to be …show more content…
That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, ‘too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live… (“The Horrors of the Holocaust.” Josef Mengele, Angel of Death, Louis Bulow, 2015, www.auschwitz.dk/mengele.htm)
The evidence shows how bad of a person Dr. Mengele really was. It's really not questionable why they called him the angel of death. His experiments changed many twins lives forever. “Mengele kept his exact reasoning for his experiments a secret.” After knowing all of this, it's really hard to believe that the twins were given candy from Dr. Mengele and were in really good conditions up until the trucks came to take them to the experiments.
Citations:
“The Horrors of the Holocaust.” Josef Mengele, Angel of Death, Louis Bulow, 2015, www.auschwitz.dk/mengele.htm
Rosenberg, Jennifer. “Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death’ and the Twins of Auschwitz.”ThoughtCo, 4 Apr. 2018,
Have you ever heard stories of Dr. Mengele, “The Angel of Death’’? Have you listened to any twin survivors interviews talk about their experience in the Holocaust and how it changed them? He was an evil doctor that performed unimaginable experiments on twins during the Holocaust. Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why - perhaps because he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left him paralyzed. He could not walk anymore. They took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi anymore. I cannot tell you how I felt. It is impossible to put into words how I felt. They had taken away my father, my
mother, …show more content…
At six o'clock every morning, no matter what kind of weather, the twins were up for roll call and a very small breakfast. Each twin was examined head to toe, the head examination itself took days. Dr. Mengele made sure that if a doctor missed anything they were punished. They took pictures of the twins to see hair patterns. The twins were forced to stand, bend, and kneel in different ways so the photographs could be taken. Sometimes they were forced to stand with their arms up for many hours so that underarm hair could be photographed. Tubes were forced into their lungs through their nose and they were “ventilated with gas which caused them to cough so severely they had to be restrained.” The twins were basically only used for experiments during the Holocaust, that was their main purpose. Their lives ended shortly after Dr. Mengele was satisfied with the information he collected. When they were done testing them, after about three weeks, they were sent off to be murdered and dissected. Then their organs were sent to the Institute of Biological Racial and Evolutionary research Berlin to be …show more content…
That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, ‘too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live… (“The Horrors of the Holocaust.” Josef Mengele, Angel of Death, Louis Bulow, 2015, www.auschwitz.dk/mengele.htm)
The evidence shows how bad of a person Dr. Mengele really was. It's really not questionable why they called him the angel of death. His experiments changed many twins lives forever. “Mengele kept his exact reasoning for his experiments a secret.” After knowing all of this, it's really hard to believe that the twins were given candy from Dr. Mengele and were in really good conditions up until the trucks came to take them to the experiments.
Citations:
“The Horrors of the Holocaust.” Josef Mengele, Angel of Death, Louis Bulow, 2015, www.auschwitz.dk/mengele.htm
Rosenberg, Jennifer. “Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death’ and the Twins of Auschwitz.”ThoughtCo, 4 Apr. 2018,