Dr Josef Mengele

1. Dr Josef Mengele The Angel of Death By Emma Spittel

2. I must warn that the following pictures and stories are very sad and gruesome. Watch this slide show at your own risk.

3. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911. He was the eldest of three sons in an upper middle-class family. Mengele was Born with strikingly good looks which he used to his advantage. After being taken by waves of sickness as a teenager Mengele set his mind on medicine. This choice, is one which doomed thousands of lives.

4. When WWII began Josef was itching to get in on the action. For a year or so he was a medical officer and then a soldier. In time he was sent to Aushwitz which is where his “career” really began. Mengele was given a position as camp doctor. This is where he decided who was to go into the gas chambers and who would do slave work. He was the grim reaper for tens of thousands.

5. “They come here as jews and leave as smoke up the chimney.” In one instance a block was reported to have been infected with lice; so to solve the problem a 32 year old Mengele sent the whole block, 750 women, to the gas chambers. It is said the he casually waved to the left, with a cane held in a gloved hand four hundred thousand grandparents, mothers, fathers, teenagers, children, and babies.

6. The Experiments Mengeles experiments were what he really loved to do. Because he got to choose who lived and who died, he was able to hand pick people he wanted to experiment on. He loved deformities, different skin color, dwarfs, and most of all twins.

7. Mothers let Mengele take their children because he was so charming that they trusted him. The children trusted him too because he gave them candy and sweets and a better amount of food. They called the children he experimented on, Mengeles children. Little did they know of the unthinkable experiments awaiting them.

8. He had many murderous policies like drawing a line on the wall five feet from the floor in the children’s block and those whose heads couldn’t reach the line were sent to the gas chamber.

9. Sometimes Mengele did surgeries without putting people to sleep or giving them any pain medication. He once did this while taking apart a patients stomach, and another time when removing a heart. He would inject dye into patients eyes in attempt to change the color. In these experiments at least one child would always end up blind Mengele attempted to sew a set of twins together in attempt to make Siamese twins In the case of twins he would inject one with a disease and then kill them both to see how the disease affected a person

10. “They were pinned up, like butterflies, I thought I was dead and already living in hell.” Jews called him The Angel of Death, Beautiful Devil, and Jewish Calendar because on Jewish holidays he made sure to do more experiments than usual. Vera Kriegal, a twin who went into the lab saw a collection of eyeballs displayed on the wall said He could kill all those people yet still keep a smirk on his face.

11. Mengele truly believed that he was among the top scientific researchers of the day. He was obsessed with his work and thought everything thing he did was extremely important. He saw no wrong in doing these things because it was jews he experimented on. In sentencing people to the gas chambers he once proclaimed, “Away with this shit!”

12. It is said that three thousand twins passed through Aushwitz, into Mengele’s care. Very few ever left. Many documents of his experiments were destroyed as the camp was liberated, so we will never know the true extent of his terror Unfortunately Mengele evacuated Germany when Aushwitz was liberated. He went to south America where he lived for 35 years under different names untill he died in 1979. He never received any punishment for his crimes.