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Josef Mengele, also known as The Angel Of Death, was a German SS Officer during WWII. He performed unethical, and often deadly experiments on prisoners at the concentration camp, Auschwitz. He also chose which prisoners would be put to work, or would be killed immediately upon arrival to Auschwitz.

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A short, informative video about Josef Mengele's horrific actions during the Holocaust.

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While at Auschwitz, Mengele started a program to conduct experiments on prisoners. His main goal was to understand the impact of heredity on physical traits. He was particularly interested in twins, as they had nearly identical DNA, meaning any difference in physical traits would be due to outside influences. He would experiment on pairs of twins, and would then dissect and analyze. their bodies once they had died. He went so far as to murder 14 pairs of twins in one night with his experiments.

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Mengele further fueled his obsession with twins by stitching together their corpses. He performed vivisection (open surgery or dissection of a live patient) on prisoners. He would send the severed body parts of infected victims to be examined in a lab.

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"Standing in the middle of it was, though I didn't know it then, Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele. He looked like the typical SS officer: a cruel, though not unintelligent, face, complete with monocle."

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A picture of twins that were kept alive for Mengele's human experiments at Auschwitz.

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Mengele appears at the concentration camp that Eliezer is taken to in chapter 3. He asks him some questions to decide whether he will be put to work or killed. Eliezer mentions that he had no idea that the man he met was Mengele, and that he had no idea what he was known for.

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Josef Mengele had no qualms about using violence to get his way. He was once in an argument with another doctor about whether a young prisoner had contracted tuberculosis. He walked out of the room he was in and returned hours later, apologizing and saying that he was wrong. He had murdered the child in question, dissected him, and inspected his body for signs of TB, which he in fact did not have.

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What are your thoughts or opinions on Josef Mengele and his actions?

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It was suspected that Josef Mengele was a psychopath, as he showed no signs of empathy for the people he sent to die. According to other officers, Mengele was passionate about his position at Auschwitz, and was glad to fill in for those who did not want to choose where new prisoners were sent. He appeared to sympathize with the children in the concentration camp, but was happy to send them to their deaths, and would often murder them, himself.

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To this day, there is no explanation for why Josef Mengele decided to conduct horrific human experiments at Auschwitz. His interest in the macabre did not sprout from any past traumatic experiences; in fact, he lived a privileged and comfortable life as a child, and was given a fast pass into his career path of choice.

Why do you think he did what he did?