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| Dr. Mengele during the Holocaust. |
Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16,
1911, the youngest of three sons. Josef was refined, intelligent, and popular
in his town. He studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1937 he joined the Nazi party, and then in 1938 he went to the SS guard. In 1942 he was wounded and was pronounced unfit for duty. After
that he volunteered to go to the concentration camp; he was sent to the death camp, Auschwitz.
Dr. Josef Mengele, nicknamed “the Angel of Death,” became the surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler’s
plan of power.
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Josef Mengele was the chief provider
for the gas chambers and crematoria. When it was said that one block at the camp
was infected with lice, Mengele solved the problem by gassing all the 750 women assigned to it. This Angel of Death carried on his legend of dramatizing people, such as drawing a line on the wall of
the children’s block between 150 and 156 centimeters from the floor. Then
sending those kids whose heads didn’t reach the line to the gas chamber to die.
In another case where a mother didn’t want to be separated from her thirteen-year-old daughter, had bit and scratched
the face of an SS man who tried to force her to her assigned line, Mengele pulled his gun out on the mother and child. As punishment he sent them and the whole transport to the gas chamber, with the comment:”Away
with this shit!”
One day excitement hit him in the face.
This was the moment when Mengele, the geneticist, found a pair of twins. Mengele
performed physical experiments, such as surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one twin to another,
making injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, removal of limbs and organs, and incestuous impregnations. One night, Mengele’s assistant round up 14 pairs of Gypsy twins. Mengele placed them on his marble dissection table and put them to sleep.
He then injected chloroform into their hearts, killing them instantly. Mengele
then proceeded to dissect their innocent bodies noting each and every piece of them.
At Auschwitz, Mengele did a number of twin studies, and these twins were usually murdered and dissected after each
experiment. He even supervised an experiment where two Gypsy children were sewn
together to create Siamese twins; later resulting in the children’s hands becoming infected. Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of children in an attempt to change their eye color, but unfortunately
such experiments didn’t work out efficiently. About forty years after the
war, only a few of these twins could be found, many living in Israel and the United States.
One twin tells the death of his brother:
“Dr.
Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why- perhaps because
he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left my brother paralyzed. He could
not walk anymore. Then they took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi anymore. I
cannot tell you how I felt. It is impossible to put into words how I felt. They had taken away my father, my mother, my two older brothers, and now, my twin…
“
Josef Mengele left Auschwitz disguised as a member of the regular German infantry. He turned up at the Gross-Rosen work camp and left before it was liberated February
of 1945. He was later captured as a prisoner and held near Munich. By the fall of 1948, Mengele made up his mind to leave Germany and make a life somewhere else. He received his passport to Argentina in 1949, so Mengele fled to South America, but moved from country
to country afraid of being caught. Mengele was never caught, and lived for 35
years with his brother Karl’s widow, Martha. He died in Brazil swimming
one afternoon, and suffered a massive stroke. The mystery of the “Angel
of Death” was finally solved after approximately 1.5 million children deaths, plus years of freedom after the war.
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