Why Did Josef Mengele Use Of Nazi Experiments

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According to source A – Josef Mengele and other medical doctors who worked for the Nazi’s were cruel and barbaric. According to Source a Mengele, used the prisoners as experiments as well as to give himself personal fulfilment that had very little, or no value to society. Firstly they called themselves doctors but not one patient that they have helped or healed can be identified. Secondly the experiments added no value to medical science, and thirdly they did not heal the sick as normal doctors do, but rather added to the long term suffering and pain and more profoundly the deaths of millions of innocent human beings. Nazi doctors thought very little of the prisoners of the death camps as “Nazi doctors knew that prisoners were used for numerous

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