Josef Mengele's Disturbing Experimentation

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Josef Mengele's disturbing experimentation proves that humans are mostly evil because he killed innocent people, he did not think any of the crimes he committed were inhumane, and he did not give most of his victims anesthesia during the experiments. Dr. Mengele went to the absolute extreme by not only performing life threatening experiments, but by also not feeling any sorrow for his actions and not using anesthetics for surgeries as painful as amputations. What he did to so many innocent Jews, people with disabilities, and others should have haunted him till the day he died. But, sadly that is not what happened because for the most unusual reason, Mengele did not feel as though he did anything wrong. He was responsible for thousands of deaths,

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