Josef Mengele Quotes

Josef Mengele, The Angel of Death

The greek philosopher Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do”. This quote means that once you start doing things over and over again, people will start to see you as that. This quote relates to Josef Mengele because he was know for sugarcoating twins then doing deadly experiments on them. Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death,” focused his sadistic experiments on twins during his service in Auschwitz.

To better understand the Holocaust, it is important to apply the definition. The Holocaust describes the state sponsored slaughter of six million Jewish men, women, and children, along with the killing of others by the Nazi and their allies during WWII. Called “the Final Solution” by the Nazis, the Holocaust

traces its name from a greek term meaning whole sacrifice. This reminds us of how whole bodies were burned in the crematoria in the death camps (Berenbaum).

During the years of 1930’s, Josef Mengele started doing his research and experiments on twins. He became interested in learning about twins when he was an assistant to Dr. Otmar who was known for his research about twins. When Jews would be put on the trains to be sent to Auschwitz, Mengele would wait for the twins to get of the trains. Josef Mengele was known for doing crazy experiments that would hurt and kill Jews.(JOSEF MENGELE).

When Josef Mengele was in Auschwitz, there was a case of lice in one of the bunkers. Mengele solved the problem by sending all 730 woman to the gas chamber. During the selection Mengele would draw a chart from 150 to 156 centimeters, 5 feet to 5 feet 1 inch, if the children head didn’t reach they would be sent straight to the gas chamber. Mengele deaths would be long-drawn out rituals (Angel of Death).

Survivors that were children when they had their encounters with Uncle Mengele said that he would come to the smiling and bringing them candy and clothes. He was a loving husband and had fined standings. That’s is where he got the angel part of his name from. The death part came from him killing, doing crazy experiments on twins, freezing them to death (Josef Mengele).

Eva Kors, one of the most renowned survivors of Mengele’s twin-experiments, conveys the horror that greeted the children from the very start: "The first time I went to use the latrine located at the end of the children's barrack, I was greeted by the scattered corpses of several children lying on the ground.

I think that image will stay with me forever. It was there that I made a silent pledge - a vow to make sure that Miriam and I didn't end up on that filthy floor” (Bulow). Though he has a reputation for giving children candy and occasionally being kind, Mengele thought so little of his victims that he had no problem leaving corpses on the bathroom floor.

Jona Laks, one of the twins who had met Mengele remembers how he was going to send her to the gas chamber until he realized she had a twin. According to BBC new it states “Another woman who remembers her arrival at the camp is Jona Laks, who was taken as a teenager from the Lodz ghetto. She was not immediately recognised as a twin and was initially sent off in the direction of the gas chamber - when her sister told Mengele they were twins he had her brought to his laboratory”(Walker).

In presumably, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, would take the most innocent twins, who in fact our children, and do the most harsh things to them. He would make them be his human lab rats. Mengele would treat them as if they weren’t even humans, as if they were from another plant. Josef Mengele “lab rats” who have survived him says that he was nice at first then he would expermient on your

body.