Josef Mengele

Method To Their Madness During World War II, German forces were moving towards achieving their goal of one, pure, Germanic race. In this process, they took on one of the largest impure groups in their eyes; the Jewish population. While other groups were also being persecuted, the Jewish population was amongst the largest threats to the Germans. The German forces, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, employed a strategy which included the creation of concentration camps, as part of the final…

Regarded as “the most effective concentration camp of World War II”, Auschwitz concentration camp is guilty of the mass murder of 1.1 million Jews. Even though the Nazis tried to fulfill their goal of the extermination of all Jews and did not succeed, Auschwitz was the worst environment to live in, with its many atrocities and wretched living conditions. Auschwitz, being located in Oswiecim, Poland, imported dozens of overcrowded trains with captured humans at the camp everyday (Whiting, 32)…

During the Holocaust, more than 6 million Jews were persecuted by the Nazis in Germany and its surrounding nations. Following World War 1, Adolf Hitler came into power in Germany and formed one of the most powerful fascist totalitarian states at the time. Hitler blamed the economic depression on the Jews and others he believed to be inferior. He wanted to eradicate the people who were seen as a threat to the German people. The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional representation of…

experiments on oxygen deprivation, effects of altitude and hypothermia. They also tested immunization compounds for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases such as malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. The infamous Physician Josef Mengele in Auschwitz conducted experiments on Gypsies to determine how different races reacted to various diseases. At Sachsenhausen, prisoners were exposed to phosgene and mustard gas to find a possible antidote while others were used to test…

Human experimentation is nothing new to the human race. Thousands of years ago the Indians and Mayans used such practices to produce drugs that healed the sick. Many people believe that these experiments should be banned because they are unethical; however, in reality, such practices have helped more than harmed people. In order to fully appreciate the medical advancements made through human experimentation, people need to take into consideration the risks and lines that had to be crossed. Human…

of Holocaust Studies is still male-dominated, and as men seek to identify with other men rather than with women, the ‘Holocaust canon’ has in turn remained predominantly male (Baer and Goldenberg 2003, 24). Again, we live in a patriarchal society, and man is seen as the authoritative figure in the household and in social organizations, including political leadership. In Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank, fifteen year old Eva explains how she feared for her life at…

Nazi Germany is forever remembered as the villainous provocateur of World War II. This war played host to some of the most atrocious events in human history. The war has evoked several images of human cruelty, war torn cities and towns, concentration camps, nuclear holocaust, racial hatred, and villainous dictators. Underneath the tumultuous events of World War II, there was a section of Nazi policy directed at military, medical, and euthanasia experimentation. In a ravaged post war Germany,…

Throughout the 1900’s there was a lot of things built up against the United States, from WWII to the civil rights movements there was plenty for the citizens and the government to deal with. One important part of this time that people forget is the attacks and discrimination of different homosexual groups within this time. Thus it is believed that the U.S. should have gotten involved in stopping any persecution of homosexual individuals or groups in the 1900’s because, if they had done something…

Jews within the concentration camp that person would see skeletons wearing skin infected by Typhus. Those who had disabilities were almost always immediately killed, unless the SS saw them as candidates for experimentation at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele. Men and women both were often beaten to serve as examples to scare obedience into the captives. At least 500,000 are estimated to have died in the concentration camps due to disease, hunger, or labor. Within the extermination camps, the…

“The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people; it is a failure of humanity as a whole.” Moshe Katsaw. The Holocaust was a global tragedy that occurred in the 1940’s, it affected every corner of the world and killed approximately 11 million people. Of the 11 million, 6 million were Jewish people, and of the 6 million Jewish people 1.5 million were children. One might wonder how in modern history something so horrific could take place. The answer is simply ignorance. When the Holocaust…