months at Auschwitz, Mengele took part in the selection of gassed jews he deemed weak or disrespectful.But what lead to his infamy were his notorious experiments performed upon 1,500 sets of twins in Auschwitz alone.His experiments were driven by his fascination to genes but had no scientific basis. Twins often picked for his experiments were tested not only physically but mentally, many twins recall having blood drawn nearly every day in very large quantities"Most of the time, they would take blood from one arm, and they gave us shots in the other." (Echoes from Auschwitz, Kor 143). “An estimated 10 cubic centimeters of blood was drawn from the twins at every session” (Lifton,350).Twins were also measured from head to toe.Mengele often measured
