JOSEF MENGELE

BACKGROUND

• Became a Nazi in 1937
• His dissertation was to study different racial groups
• In May 1943, Mengele entered Auschwitz as an educated experienced medical researcher

BACKGROUND

• He was appointed to the post camp doctor in the gypsy family camp
• He performed innumerable selections of victims proving him self to be the "Angel of death"

EVENT

• Experimented on children as young as 5 years old
• He took all the twins from the concentration camps
• Gave the children sweets and clean clothes
• They were allowed to call him "Uncle"

EVENT

• They were driven to his laboratory in either his own car or a truck
• They were subjected to appalling experiments, surgery without anesthetics, blood transfusions from one twin to the other, injected lethal germs in to the twins, and sex change operations
• He also injected chemicals into children's eyes in attempt to change their eye color
• Collected eyes of his murder victims
• Took 2 trucks to carry all his "findings"
• Sent findings to his mentor Dr. Verschuer

EVENT

• Mengele tried to sew two Gypsy children together to make Siamese twins
• Renate and Rene Guttmann were subjected to injections and x-ray experiments by Josef Mengele
• Mengele continued to do his "scientific" research into presumed racial differences hunchbacks, and other deformities
• People with any deformity would be killed for him, on orders upon those arrival in the death camp

Untitled Slide

IMPACT

• Mengele was captured as a POW and held near Munich
• Data form the Nazi experiments on hypothermia are sometimes cited in medical literature
• 1.5 million children killed by camp doctors and their experiments

IMPACT

• Remaining notes Mengele carried with him on his escape to South America were never found
• Only few twins were found, many live in Israel and the United States

IMPACT

• About three Thousand were killed
• About 40 survived

WORK CITED

• Czech, Danuta. "Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team." Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2015.
• Trueman, Chris. "Search the History Learning Site." History Learning Site. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2015. Website
• Josef Mengele." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015