Mengele Promoted Medical Experimentation On Inmates, Especially Dwarfs And Twins

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Term Paper Title	Mengele Promoted Medical Experimentation On Inmates, Especially Dwarfs And Twins
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Mengele promoted medical experimentation on inmates, especially dwarfs and twins. He is said
to
have supervised an operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn together to create
Siamses
twins; the hands of the children became badly infected where the veins had been resected.
(Snyder)

Cohen tells us:

     "The only firsthand evidence on these experiments comes from a handful of survivors
     and from a Jewish doctor, Miklos Nyiszli, who worked under Mengele as a
     pathologist. Mengele subjected his victims - twins and dwarfs aged two and above - to
     clinical examinations, blood tests, X rays, and anthropological measurements. In the
     case of the twins, he drew sketches of each twin, for comparison. He also injected his
     victims with various substances, dripping chemicals into their eyes (apparently in an
     attempt to change their color).

     He then killed them himself by injecting chloroform into their hearts, so as to carry out
     comparative pathological examinations of their internal organs. Mengele's purpose,
     according to Dr. Nyiszli, was to establish the genetic cause for the birth of twins, in
     order to facilitate the formulation of a program for doubling the birthrate of the 'Aryan'
     race. The experiments on twins affected 180 persons, adults and children.

     Mengele also carried out a large number of experiments in the field of contageous
     diseases, (typhoid and tuberculosis) to find out how human beings of different races
     withstood these diseases. He used Gypsy twins for this purpose. Mengele's
     experiments combined scientific (perhaps even important) research with the racist and
     ideological aims of the Nazi regime. which made use of government offices, scientific
     institutions, and concentration camps.

     From the scanty information available, it appears that his research differed from the
     other medical experiments in that the victims' death was programmed into his
     experiments and formed a central element in it." (Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, 964)

MENGELE, JOSEF (1911- ?). Camp doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp. ..appointed chief
doctor in 1943 by Himmler ... joined other doctors (Koenig, Thilon, Klein) in the task of choosing
employable Jews to operated the industrial machines and sending others to the gas chambers.
The
selection was haphazard. The inmates were paraded before Mengele, who called either "Right!"
(work squads) or "Left!" (gas chambers). ...[he] promote...

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