Josef Mengele Nazi Medical Experiments

LaDaesha Summers Summers 1
Miss G
English 2.2
4/28/15

Nazi Medical Experiments Have you ever wondered about the “experiments” Nazi experimented on their captives? The Nazi has been internationally known over the years for their horrifying torturing experiments. The Nazi always looked for solutions to keep their soldiers and prisons productive through the very harsh temperatures. Therefore, the Nazi regime had to conduct unethical experiments on those in concentration camps including, but not limited, to internal investigation, hot bath, sun lamp and torture on twins. The Nazi thought there was only one man that was bona fide for this task, and that was Dr. Josef Mengele. Dr. Mengele began his research in May of 1943 at Auschwitz in Southern

Many times his discoveries or experiments had very little to nothing conformation and were treated based on Mengele’s pleasures. He would write often write down measurements of the twins, and compare them to each other. Blood transfers were also made between the twins and drops of harmful chemicals would sometimes be put in their eyes to make them blue. This treatment resulted in pain, often infection, and blindness. Mengele did surgeries such as organ removal, castration, and amputations were performed on the twins without anesthesia. One case reported by an eye witness from Auschwitz by the name of, Vera Alexander. She reportedly told the jury in a testimony at the 1961 Adolf Eichmann Jerusalem trials that she seen two twin boys made into Siamese twins. “There was a set of twins, Gypsies, whom he took away one day from the block where I was – that was the Zigeunerlager – the Gypsy camp. Some days later, he returned them, with veins in their arms and their backs sewn together. Alexander” The boys hands were reportedly swollen and full of puss; the boys were later put to death by their mother to take them out of their