Josef Mengele Research Paper

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Josef Mengele was known for his tourturing and medical experimentation on jews and POWs. First he was used to do the "Selections", in which Jews were selected to get sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. After that he became one of the 30 medical practioners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was known for treating the prisoners horrible and doing torturous experiments on people. Mengele firmly endorsed the doctrine of National Socialist racial theory and engaged in a wide spectrum of experiments which aimed to illustrate the lack of resistance among Jews or Roma to various diseases. He also attempted to demonstrate the “degeneration” of Jewish and “Gypsy” blood through the documentation of physical oddities and the collection and harvesting of tissue