How Did Josef Mengele Use Twins In The Holocaust

Over 3,000 twins became the victims of Josef Mengele's horrifying experiments at Camp Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The lives of twins and Jewish people changed forever on January 30, 1933. Mengele was a doctor who experimented on twins for 10 years. Mengele would give twins shots, draw blood constantly, perform surgery with no anesthesia or medicine, kill them, dissect their bodies, and more. Josef Mengele and many other men and women would perform these acts on twins, but also on other Jews who did not seem “normal”. They would use twins as human guinea pigs because they were “abnormal”, twins were born as two, not as one. The staff at Auschwitz would follow Josef’s lead and torture these humans just to entertain or teach themselves something.

Police forces and armies would later try to find and arrest Josef Mengele and many other staff who participated in these acts. The treacherous events that occurred during the Holocaust, which were directed toward twins and initiated by Josef Mengele should have been stopped way sooner than they were. Josef Mengele was one of the most infamous crime committers because he did horrible things to Jews in the Auschwitz camp. He was born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzberg, Germany. He went to school studying medicine and physical anthology at several different universities. An interesting fact about him is that he did not support the Nazi party before it became popular. During his university studies, however, he embraced racial science, him and many others believed German people were somehow superior to any other human race. They

The twins would wake up at five in the morning and go outside for roll call, it did not matter the weather outside they would be forced to stand outside their camp building. They even had to drag the dead bodies outsides of the people that died overnight. Mengele would be very upset when someone died in their sleep because he could not dissect them right away. (Walker, 2015) After roll call, they would be given a very small portion of food to eat. Mengele would then take them to the labs and they would be measured and have x-rays taken, about three times a week they were taken to the blood labs to get blood drawn and would have around three shots injected into their arms. The camp conditions were horrible and some twins would die just because of that. Jewish people had to endure a very tough routine, especially little children. (Rosenburg,