In 1943, Mengele was encouraged by von Verscher to transfer to the concentration camp service. There, Megele saw an opportunity to undertake genetic research on human subjects. When his application was accepted, Mengele transferred his services to the concentration camp called Auschwitz. Mengele’s research was funded and he worked alongside some of the top medical researchers at that time. While at Auschwitz, Mengele decided to focus on the search for the secrets of genetics, which, if found, would futurely benefit the Nazi ideal. Mengele was also infamous for hand picking his subjects from the crowds of Jews that were shipped to the camp. A person would either be sent to the left or right to the gas chambers or to labor. Mengele kept an eye out to find twins, dwarfs, giants or anyone with a unique hereditary trait among the crowds of prisoners. These who were unlucky enough to be selected would then undergo much pain and torture that would, in most cases, kill them.
“The Angel of Death” is an appropriate name for a man who was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands. His most infamous experiments involved sets of twins. From early 1943 to late 1944, Mengele performed experiments on nearly 1,500 sets of twins; about 200 individuals survived Josef Mengele experimentation. Mengele performed a variety of diverse experiments on twins that ranged from the injection of different dyes into the eyes of twins to literally sewing twins together in an attempt to create conjoined twins. Mengele was accused of performing vivisections, which is the dissecting on a live subject without anesthesia on numerous occasions and injecting toxic chemicals, such as chloroform, into a subject’s heart. It is clear that, despite the stated purpose for which he has sent to Auschwitz, Mengele’s experiments had little to do with scientific research, but was instead a result of a twisted obsession with the power he was given.
“The Angel of Death” is an appropriate name for a man who was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands. His most infamous experiments involved sets of twins. From early 1943 to late 1944, Mengele performed experiments on nearly 1,500 sets of twins; about 200 individuals survived Josef Mengele experimentation. Mengele performed a variety of diverse experiments on twins that ranged from the injection of different dyes into the eyes of twins to literally sewing twins together in an attempt to create conjoined twins. Mengele was accused of performing vivisections, which is the dissecting on a live subject without anesthesia on numerous occasions and injecting toxic chemicals, such as chloroform, into a subject’s heart. It is clear that, despite the stated purpose for which he has sent to Auschwitz, Mengele’s experiments had little to do with scientific research, but was instead a result of a twisted obsession with the power he was given.