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    During the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Josef Mengele, a German officer and physician in the Auschwitz concentration camps, performed a variety of experiments on the prisoners in the camp. Some experiments included High Altitude Experiments, Freezing Experiments, Malaria Experiments, Regeneration and Transplantation Experiments, Sea Water Experiments, and Sterilization Experiment. Due to World War ll, Mengele was ordered to experiment and observe specific conditions/factors put on people in order to…

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    Of the people Mengele experimented on, his favorite group Delete were twins. While at the boarding ramps Mengele would ask if there were ever any twins in the mix, most of the time duping mothers into a false sense of hope that their children would survive. Eva Mozes Kor, a twin and fortunate survivor of Mengele’s science recalls: “When the doors to our cattle car opened, I heard SS soldiers yelling, "Schnell! Schnell!", and ordering everybody out. My mother grabbed Miriam and me by the hand.…

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    The Holocaust was the biggest mass murdered in the human history that left traumatic memories to them who were part of that genocide. The Holocaust started on the World War II from Nazis during 1939-1945. “The term Holocaust is commonly used to refer to the systematic murder by Nazi Germany of approximately six million Jews and the destruction of their communities, representing one-third of world Jewry at the time. In this use, it is analogous to the Hebrew word Shoah, also used to refer to the…

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    Holocaust. The name of the B-29 that bombed Nagasaki was Bock’s Car, named after the the plane’s usual commander, Frederick Bock. Dr. Josef Mengele used about 3,000 twins, mostly Jewish and Romany children for his experiments. Only about 200 survived. Some of Mengele’s experiments included taking a twin’s eyeball and attaching it on the back of the other twin’s head; Mengele also tried changing the children’s eye color, by injecting dye into their eyes. Two Romany twins were sewn together in…

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    Nazi Military Experiments

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    The first of these experiments was concentrated on improving the survivability of the nazi military. These experiments were especially deadly. Most of the jewish prisoners either died or were horribly wounded in these experiments. Some of these experiments consisted of high altitude and hypothermia testing. Others contained ways to treat field injuries and other in field encounters.(shandler) The second stage of these evil and diabolical experiments was focused on the production of…

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    Henrietta Lacks Unethical

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    How would you feel if something was taken from your body without your consent or if an experiment was performed on you without your consent? Many times while people are in the operating room under anesthesia doctors take things from them, calls, blood samples, etc. and most of the time they never find out until it’s too late. People are even experimented on without giving permission, experiments that are so gruesome you can’t even imagine. Taking things or performing experiments on humans…

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    The Holocaust was full of gruesome and atrocious events. The Nazi regime abhorrently killed tons of innocent people including, 1.5 million children. Between January 30, 1933 through May 8, 1945 an egregious event occurred, the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a movement by the Nazi regime during World War II. Over 1.5 million children were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Although many horrific events occurred during the Holocaust one of the worst was the killing of innocent children.…

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    Dr. Mengele Typology

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    Mengele is “the original ‘Angel of Death”, a doctor who performed atrocious operations and experiments on people, especially children in concentration camps” (Kirsch., 2006). Dr. Mengele was not always this way. He was not always a monster. He was born to a prominent family. He grew up with a mother that had a terrible temper whom demanded respect…

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    be two smart peoples in the world. We're going to win the war, so only the Aryan race will stand.” -Dr. Josef Mangele. He was the leader of the concentration camp called Auschwitz where he would carry out his twisted experiments. Dr. Josef Mangele was a brilliant and evil man. He numerously has shown that he has no remorse for human life, by experimenting on hundreds of people. Josef Mengele was shot as at the front lines of Russia. He convinced Hitter to move him to Auschwitz. Promoted to the…

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    harshness of internment camps many Jews were sent to. Characters in Lord of the Flies embody real-life Holocaust survivors. These characters are Ralph, representing the Jewish Police used in ghettos, and Samneric, twin boys who represent victims of Josef Mengele’s infamous twin experiments. The coping behavior utilized by many of the…

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