Who Is Josef Mengele's Experiments During The Holocaust

The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in history. Countless things occurred during the Holocaust, towards the people that were unsuitable or not equal to the Nazi party; such as homosexuals, gypsies, handicaps, and Jews. These innocent people were tortured, murdered, and even experimented on. According to Peter Tyson, these experiments include high altitude, freezing/hypothermia, twin experiments, poison, Tuberculosis, Phosgene gas, bone and muscle transplants, artificial insemination, seawater, and many more. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says these brutal experiments can be divided into three main categories: experiments aimed at facilitating the endurance of Axis military members, growing and testing pharmaceuticals

and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses, and the advancement of the racial spiritual teachings of the Nazis. Additionally, no matter the prisoner or the experiment, the patients were handled barbaric by the Nazi Doctors. It did not matter the experiment or the pain, the doctors would jump through hoops to fully perform the experiment. All of these experiments were performed with the belief that the experiments were helping science and the German race.
The Nazi doctors wanted to determine the most effective way to treating German pilots who became severely cold from being discharged into the ocean, or “German soldiers who suffered extreme exposure on the Russian front” (Tyson). Racher and other doctors performed experiments at Dachau. For up to five hours or more at a time, they placed patients in vats of icy cold water, either in aviator suits or naked. They took others outside in the freezing cold and strapped them down naked. As the patients winced in pain, foamed at the mouth, and lost consciousness, the doctors measured changes in the heart rate, body temperature, muscle reflexes, and other circumstances. When a patient's’ body temperature fell to 79.7 degrees Fahrenheit, they would try rewarming them using hot sleeping bags, scalding baths, and naked women forced to cohabit with the patient. Around 80 to 100 patients succumbed during this experiment (Tyson).
Many doctors at Dachau, including Dr. Hans Eppinger, performed experiments to try to make seawater drinkable. They roughly had forced 90 Gypsies to drink only seawater while also be deprived them of food. The Gypsies had become so dehydrated that they constantly licked the floors after they had been moped just to get a drop of fresh water. This experiment caused excessive pain and misery and resulted in serious bodily injury (Tyson).
In an effort to try and find ways to dramatically multiply the German race, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted on twins at Auschwitz in hopes of unraveling the secret of multiple births. Taking all the measurements and other living data he could from the 1,000 pairs of twins he operated on, Mengele dispatched them with a single injection of chloroform to the heart. Of the 1,000 pairs of twins he experimented on, only about 200 pairs survived (Tyson).
The Nazis wanted to know if a person’s joints and limbs could be transplanted into someone else. These cruel experiments led to numbers of prisoners limbs needlessly amputated. No matter how hard they tried every single transplant failed. At Ravensbruck, doctors amputated legs and shoulders from victims in useless attempts to transplant them onto another patient. They removed sections of muscles, bones, and nerves from prisoners to study innovation of these body parts. Prisoners had suffered excruciating pain, mutilation, and permanent disability as a result to these experiments (Tyson).
This experiments seems like a scene right out of a horror movie. These experiments were carried out in a small building behind the house of a Nazi doctor. It engaged with strapping a young boy to a chair so his movements would be restricted. Right above his head, was mechanized hammer that came down and hit his head in intervals of every few seconds . This torture, that still goes unsaid, had drove the young boy insane (Sharma).
In 1942, Dr. Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high altitude experiments on the prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find a way to save German pilots that were forced to eject at high altitudes. They would place prisoners in low-pressure chambers that simulated altitudes of as high as 68,000 feet and monitored their physiological response as they succumbed and died. Racher was said to have dissected the brains of the prisoners while they were still alive to show that the high altitude sickness resulted from the formation of tiny air bubbles in the blood vessels of a certain part of the brain. Of about the 200 prisoners that were subjected to this experiment, 80 died downright and the remainder of them were executed (Tyson).
Malaria is a blood diseases spread by mosquitoes. The Nazis wanted for a possible cure for malaria so they injected healthy prisoners with the extracts of mucous glands of female mosquitoes. After the victims developed malaria, they were given diverse drugs to test their efficacy. As countless as 1000 inmates were forcefully mad victims of this fatal disease and over half of them died because of it (Sharma).
The popular Heinrich Himmler ordered a Nazi doctor to artificially inseminate concentration camp prisoners through various experimental methods. After hearing that Dr. Clauberg had successfully treated a high-level SS officer’s infertile wife, Himmler ordered Clauberg to conduct artificial insemination experiments at Auschwitz. Around 300 women underwent this experiment at the hands of Clauberg. He reportedly tormented victims while they were strapped down in front of him. He informed them that they had just been inseminated with animal sperm and that monsters were now growing inside of their stomachs (James).
The Nazis thought of a good way to torture and kill inmates was to use poison. At Buchenwald concentration camp, Russian prisoners were injected with experimental poisons as the doctors tried to develop new methods of execution. One of the methods was injecting Russian inmates with a combination of phenol and cyanide. The experimenters also tested multiple poisons on the human body by putting poisonous chemicals in their food or shooting them with poison bullets. Victims who did not die during these experiments were killed so they could do an autopsy to see the impact the poison really had (Tyson).
These experiments are far worse than just a regular sunburn. They placed prisoners under a sun lamp that was so hot it would burn their skin. One victim was a young homosexual who was repeatedly cooled to unconsciousness then revived with lamps until he was pouring sweat. He died one evening after several test sessions. Another experiment was that they placed a prisoner in a warm bath and slowly increased the temperature. Many died from this method because of the shock of being warmed up too quickly. Dr. Himmler proposed to Dr. Rascher that he use women to warm up the bodies of frozen men. He also suggested that the victim and the women copulate. This very perverted experiment came with some success but it was not as successful as the warm bath experiment (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine).
To the Nazis, the Aryan race was the most important goal. It was a major part of their whole plan. The blonde hair, blue eyes, super men were to be the only race according to the Germans. All the other people who did not fit these requirements: such as The Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuals. These people were to be wiped from society through genocide. Adolf Hitler made a list of rules for the fellow Nazis to follow. These rules required all SS before marriages must agree to general testing to insure racial purity. If these rules were not followed, it could mean the death penalty. After the concentration camps started, endless genetic experiments were started. The two major groups of the experiments were first to refine the master race and second to determine the cause of defects. Mengele’s experiments on twins illustrated the hunt for the genetic studies. He was always at every selection when a new train would arrive at Auschwitz. After they were unloaded of the trains, he would pick through the thousands of people to find the twins, dwarfs, and unique physical specimens. The majority of whom were killed in the gas chambers were better off than the survivors because they had no idea what horror awaited them (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine).
To determine if people had a natural immunities to tuberculosis. Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer injected live tubercle bacilli into the lungs of the inmates at the Neuengamme concentration camp. Heissmeyer was responsible for about 200 adult inmates deaths, and he had 20 children from Auschwitz hung in an effort to hide the experiments from approaching Allied forces (Tyson).
Phosgene gas was a toxic gas used in World War I. Attempting to find an antidote to this toxic gas, the Nazis unmasked 52 concentration camp prisoners to the gas at Fort Ney near Strasbourg, France. This caused extreme irritation to the lungs. Many of the prisoners, who according to the German records were previously weak and emaciated, suffered pulmonary edema after exposure, and four of the prisoner's died from the experiment (Tyson).
Auschwitz-Birkenau is one of the most known concentration camps.

Dr. Josef Mengele had a Ph.D and a medical doctorate. He was interested in people who had different colored irises and the treatment of noma. It was previously almost unknown in Europe and ran throughout the Gypsy camp. He first started experimenting on gypsy children. Children suffering from this disease were put to death in order for investigations to take place. Organs and even full heads of the children were sent in jars to institutions. In the first phase of his experiments, Mengele conducted pairs of twins and people with physical handicaps to special medical examinations that could be carried out on the living organism. The experiments he performed were usually painful and exhausting. They lasted for hours and were very difficult for starved, terrified children. As soon as he was finished with the subjects, he ordered them to be killed by phenol injection so he could move on to the next phase of his experiments, the comparative investigation of internal organs at autopsy. He continous did these experiments on twins, dwarfs, and people with disabilities until he had the information he needed. After the Holocaust was over, Mengele was in custody of the United States. Unaware that he was a wanted war criminal, they released him. He then fled to South America to made a new life for himself. Thirty years later, he suffered of a stroke swimming at a vacation resort. In 1985, German police found his body, under the fictive name of Wolfgang Gerhard. He is known as the “Angel of Death” for his cruel demeanor (Background & Overview Of Nazi Medical Experiments,

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In conclusion, the things that the Holocaust victims suffered during these experiments must never be forgotten. These experiments were inhumane and should have never been performed on any individual. There is nothing we can do to take back the actions of the Nazis, but we can ensure a better future for generations to come.