Josef Mengele's Tragic Experiments During World War Two

During World War II there were a series of experiments conducted by the Nazi’s on all people besides those of the “Aryan Race”. There is much controversy surrounding this topic due to the specific motives of these experiments and whether or not it would ethically and morally fit to use such data collected. These experiments included seawater injections to figure out a safe way to desalinate salt water to make it drinkable, hypothermia tests and the period of time humans can withstand these conditions without becoming unconscious, and starving subjects to see how long it would take them to die. On the opposite side of the common opinion of this topic, there is the idea that the cruel experiments done by the Nazis were for learning purposes and should be used to help the medical field. It is understandable for some motives to involve

Josef Mengele, conducted tests at Auschwitz on twins. He had an unhealthy obsession with twins and would do anything with them to relieve his curiosities. “Josef Mengele had a strange fascination with twins, and spent his entire time at Auschwitz studying the twins.”(Yin). People who were subject to his experiments and survived or watched them happen admit that the experiments often didn’t have much “justification and were conducted solely for Mengele's pleasure.”(Yin) He had many things he wanted to know but not much reasoning for why he wanted to put pairs of twins through such horrific events, he often went through with them anyway without any shame in it. After such dreadful action he would “kill both of the twins in order to dissect and compare the bodies.”(Yin). He believed that killing them at exactly the same time would prove to be just as helpful to his experiments as if they were alive. It was believed by him that it would preserve their ‘unique’ qualities. After the Nazi experiments ended “of over 1,500 pairs of twins, only about 200 of these twins survived Mengele and the