Josef Mengele and His Experiments
Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 to a highly respected family, and raised strictly Catholic. He lived with two other siblings in an extremely wealth family. Mengele's strict father was the founder of a farming machinery production company, which was named Karl & Sons Company.
Josef Mengele was a doctor who volunteered to work in concentration camps. It was said that he worked at the concentration camps because there as a lot of 'human material' to conduct his experiments on, which focused in racial purity. Mengele performed his experiments without anesthesia. He is famously know for operating on twins, however, he also operated on "gypsy" and Jewish infants, and dwarfs. When new inmates were brought to concentration camps, the twins would be separated from everybody else, and sent to special barracks. Some of his most famous experiments were injecting chemicals into the eyes of living humans to change the color of the iris, and sewing twin's bodies together, in an attempt to create conjoined twins. Mengele would experiment on one twin, and not on the other, so that he would have a "control". After the experiment was concluded, he would kill both children, so that he could preform an autopsy and compare the bodies to one another. Patients would have at least 15 injections of chemicals a week.
Other experiments Mengele is famous for include his altitude endurance experiment. A victim would be placed in a low pressure chamber and the altitude and air pressure would slowly be raised. Many of these subjects would die from these experiments because of the harsh treatment that they would undergo. Mengele would preform freezing experiments where a person would be submerged in ice water for up to three hours. Most people who experienced this died within an hour or two hours. Mengele would cut a patients skin, and rub the wound with glass and dirt, or inject poison or disease. Mengele injected malaria disease into humans so that he could try to find a cure to this illness. However, the majority of his 1,000 patients died. Mengele injected poison into live human bodies so that he could see the effect the the different poisons had on the body. Sometime, he would kill a patent immediately so he could perform an autopsy and see how the poison was affecting the organs. Towards the end of World War II, poison would be be put into bullets and be shot into a persons body. Mengele was known to have removed a heart without any anesthesia.
One may ask, Why did Josef Mengele do these things? and What amount of these experiments actually provided beneficial information in years to come? In fact, the only valuable information that was collected from these experiments was the temperature at which a human body freezes. However, many doctors do not take this information seriously because the procedures to find the information was very unethical and the patients were not fit for experimentation. It is said that Mengele did these things so that he could kill. He was a highly devoted Nazi doctor who put his life's work into creating a superior race. He thrived in the power he held over his innocent patients. In conclusion, Mengele performed these experiments to make himself a superior figure in Holocaust history and his research is not proven to be beneficial to medical practice today.
Josef Mengele was a doctor who volunteered to work in concentration camps. It was said that he worked at the concentration camps because there as a lot of 'human material' to conduct his experiments on, which focused in racial purity. Mengele performed his experiments without anesthesia. He is famously know for operating on twins, however, he also operated on "gypsy" and Jewish infants, and dwarfs. When new inmates were brought to concentration camps, the twins would be separated from everybody else, and sent to special barracks. Some of his most famous experiments were injecting chemicals into the eyes of living humans to change the color of the iris, and sewing twin's bodies together, in an attempt to create conjoined twins. Mengele would experiment on one twin, and not on the other, so that he would have a "control". After the experiment was concluded, he would kill both children, so that he could preform an autopsy and compare the bodies to one another. Patients would have at least 15 injections of chemicals a week.
Other experiments Mengele is famous for include his altitude endurance experiment. A victim would be placed in a low pressure chamber and the altitude and air pressure would slowly be raised. Many of these subjects would die from these experiments because of the harsh treatment that they would undergo. Mengele would preform freezing experiments where a person would be submerged in ice water for up to three hours. Most people who experienced this died within an hour or two hours. Mengele would cut a patients skin, and rub the wound with glass and dirt, or inject poison or disease. Mengele injected malaria disease into humans so that he could try to find a cure to this illness. However, the majority of his 1,000 patients died. Mengele injected poison into live human bodies so that he could see the effect the the different poisons had on the body. Sometime, he would kill a patent immediately so he could perform an autopsy and see how the poison was affecting the organs. Towards the end of World War II, poison would be be put into bullets and be shot into a persons body. Mengele was known to have removed a heart without any anesthesia.
One may ask, Why did Josef Mengele do these things? and What amount of these experiments actually provided beneficial information in years to come? In fact, the only valuable information that was collected from these experiments was the temperature at which a human body freezes. However, many doctors do not take this information seriously because the procedures to find the information was very unethical and the patients were not fit for experimentation. It is said that Mengele did these things so that he could kill. He was a highly devoted Nazi doctor who put his life's work into creating a superior race. He thrived in the power he held over his innocent patients. In conclusion, Mengele performed these experiments to make himself a superior figure in Holocaust history and his research is not proven to be beneficial to medical practice today.