Josef Mengele Holocaust

Josef Mengele was an exceptional doctor during World War II who used his talent and passion instead to become one of the most notorious murders in the world and a symbol of evil. Dr. Josef Mengele was a physician in the SS who is infamous for his medical experiments on prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz. He is known as “The Angel of Death” he was responsible for about 400,000 deaths in his time at Auschwitz (Newsmakers). Mengele committed horrible experiments and murders on the young, weak and sick in these camps (Schmittroth). The things Josef Mengele did during the Holocaust show humans are naturally bad through his medical experiments on people, his countless murders, and how there was no explainable reason behind his malicious

He performed these experiments without any safety precautions either. He usually did experiments on children, especially twins (Newsmakers). Mengele would take twins from the gas chambers and feed them and treat them kindly. Then he would perform cruel experiments on them like amputations, spinal taps and inject them with mysterious diseases (Schmittroth). He would infect one twin with this disease to observe them die. Then he would kill the other twin once the first one died. He would then take the bodies and examined their organs. He killed 14 pairs of twins like this (Stockton). Mengele would also do experiments on people's eyes. He would inject dye into the iris of children's eyes causing agony and occasional blindness. His experiments even resulted in the death of a newborn baby (Encyclopedia of World Biography). He also used radiation and electricity in his horrifying experiments. He “did not show any remorse at performing these ghastly and inhumane actions” (Schmittroth). His experiments resulted in the deaths of many, but he killed thousands of others on various occasions during his time working in the

Josef Mengele as the Angel of Death. He was the one to choose who would live and who would die in those camps. People who witnessed Dr. Mengele in person say he had an explosive temper. He would shoot people, beat people and burn children. According to many witnesses, he would, “perform acts of savage violence and returning to his scientific pursuits almost immediately, with no sign that anything significant had occurred” (Schmittroth). One time when Typhus broke out in the women's camp he, being in charge of health, gassed the entire block, which had 600 people in it.He then put chemicals in the other barracks until everyone was clean. After all the women were gone, a new shipment came in. He killed so many women in this, considering it, “a morally and scientifically rational option” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). One time, in the Gypsy camp, a disease called noma broke out. Mengele’s idiotic fixation on race made him want to observe the genetic causes he was certain were behind this. He took the infected, sawed their heads off and sent samples to Germany to be studied (Stockton). Once a boy got sick and some doctors were debating what the cause was, Josef, saying it was tuberculosis. Mengle then left, shot the boy and then dissected him to observe a disease. He found nothing. Josef Mengele was in charge of sorting who got to live and who got to work in the camps. When he was separating a mother and daughter, they stuck together, resulting in a