Josef Mengele aka Doctor Death. Auschwitz concentration camp: experiments on women

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German doctor Joseph Mengele is known in world history as the most brutal Nazi criminal, who subjected tens of thousands of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp to inhumane experiments.

For his crimes against humanity, Mengele forever earned the nickname “Doctor Death.”

Origin

Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in Bavaria, in Günzburg. The ancestors of the future fascist executioner were ordinary German farmers. Father Karl founded the agricultural equipment company Karl Mengele and Sons. The mother was raising three children. When Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power, the wealthy Mengele family began to actively support him. Hitler defended the interests of the very farmers on whom the well-being of this family depended.

Joseph did not intend to continue his father’s work and went to study to become a doctor. He studied at the universities of Vienna and Munich. In 1932 he joined the ranks of the Nazi Steel Helmet stormtroopers, but soon left this organization due to health problems. After graduating from university, Mengele received a doctorate. He wrote his dissertation on the topic of racial differences in the structure of the jaw.

Military service and professional activities

In 1938, Mengele joined the ranks of the SS and at the same time the Nazi Party. At the beginning of the war, he joined the reserve forces of the SS Panzer Division, rose to the rank of SS Hauptsturmführer and received the Iron Cross for saving 2 soldiers from a burning tank. After being wounded in 1942, he was declared unfit for further service in the active forces and went to “work” in Auschwitz.

In the concentration camp, he decided to realize his long-time dream of becoming an outstanding doctor and research scientist. Mengele calmly justified Hitler's sadistic views with scientific expediency: he believed that if inhuman cruelty is needed for the development of science and the breeding of a “pure race,” then it can be forgiven. This point of view translated into thousands of damaged lives and even more deaths.

In Auschwitz, Mengele found the most fertile ground for his experiments. The SS not only did not control, but even encouraged the most extreme forms of sadism. In addition, the killing of thousands of Gypsies, Jews and other people of the “wrong” nationality was the primary task of the concentration camp. Thus, Mengele found himself in the hands of a huge amount of “human material” that was supposed to be used up. "Doctor Death" could do whatever he wanted. And he created.

"Doctor Death" experiments

Josef Mengele conducted thousands of monstrous experiments over the years of his activity. He amputated body parts and internal organs without anesthesia, sewed twins together, and injected toxic chemicals into children's eyes to see if the color of the iris would change after that. Prisoners were deliberately infected with smallpox, tuberculosis and other diseases. All new and untested medications, chemicals, poisons and poisonous gases were tested on them.

Mengele was most interested in various developmental anomalies. A huge number of experiments were carried out on dwarfs and twins. Of the latter, about 1,500 couples were subjected to his brutal experiments. About 200 people survived.

All operations on fusion of people, removal and transplantation of organs were performed without anesthesia. The Nazis did not consider it advisable to spend expensive medicines on “subhumans.” Even if the patient survived the experience, he was expected to be destroyed. In many cases, the autopsy was performed at a time when the person was still alive and felt everything.

After the war

After Hitler’s defeat, “Doctor Death,” realizing that execution awaited him, tried with all his might to escape persecution. In 1945, in the uniform of a private, he was detained near Nuremberg, but then released because he could not establish his identity. After this, Mengele hid for 35 years in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. All this time, the Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD was looking for him and was close to capturing him several times.

It was never possible to arrest the cunning Nazi. His grave was discovered in Brazil in 1985. In 1992, the body was exhumed and proved that it belonged to Josef Mengele. Now the remains of the sadistic doctor are at the Medical University of Sao Paulo.

Every time the train delivered new prisoners to Auschwitz, and those, exhausted by the road and endless hardships, lined up, the tall, stately figure of Josef Mengele appeared in front of the prisoners.

Every time the train delivered new prisoners to Auschwitz and those, exhausted by the road and endless hardships, lined up, the tall, stately figure of Josef Mengele appeared in front of the prisoners.

There was a smile on his face, he was always in a good mood. Neat, well-groomed, wearing white gloves, a perfectly ironed uniform and shiny boots. Mengele hummed an operetta to himself and decided the destinies of people. Just think: so many lives - and all were in HIS hands. Like a conductor with a baton, he waved his hand with a whip: right - left, right - left. He created his own symphony, unknown to anyone: the symphony of death. Those sent to the right faced a painful death in the cells of Auschwitz. And only 10-30 percent of those who arrived were given the opportunity to work in production and live... for the time being.

However, for those “lucky” ones who ended up in the queue “to the left”, something more terrible than gas chambers awaited them. Hard slave labor and hunger are just the beginning. Each of the prisoners risked falling under the scalpel of the smiling Doctor Mengele, who conducted inhumane experiments on people. The “guinea pigs” of the Angel of Death (as Anne Frank called Mengele in her diary)… what did they experience?

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There are stories about Josef Mengele's experiments that make the hairs on the back of any compassionate person's neck stand out. No Wikipedia will convey the cruelty and pain to which Dr. Mengele subjected the prisoners. Castration and sterilization of people, testing endurance with cold, temperature, pressure, radiation, implantation of dangerous viruses and much, much more. It is noteworthy that all experiments were carried out on prisoners without anesthetics. Many “test subjects” were even dissected while still alive. The worst of it was the twins, for whom the Angel of Death had a special weakness (but more on that later). There is even a myth that Dr. Mengele’s office was hung with children’s eyes. But this is just one of the popular legends that this mystical and terrible figure has acquired over time.

Who is he, Dr. Mengele? Researchers say that literary works were found, including the memoirs of the Angel of Death. He was very gifted and a genius in his own way. Evil genius. Today we will look at the personality of Joseph Mengele from the point of view of system-vector psychology and try to find the reasons why such monsters appear in the world.

Background. Fascist Germany

Philosophers of the 18th century wrote that a person is determined by the environment in which he grows and is brought up. This statement shows its truthfulness in practice: after all, it is what is put into our heads from childhood that largely determines what we will become in the future. Josef Mengele was born and raised in Nazi Germany. The ideas of fascism had a huge influence on him.

Let us take a closer look at what moods of that time left an indelible mark on the personality of Doctor Death.

The idea of ​​blood purity, the desire to revive the so-called Aryan race - all this particularly gripped Germany in the 1930s. The birth rate in Germany was falling, the mortality rate of children was rising, and it was not so rare that sick children with certain defects were born. At the same time, a large number of people of other nationalities living in Germany (Jews, Gypsies, Slavs) posed a “threat” of incest for those with the anal vector. All this made the fascists afraid of the possible degeneration of the Aryan race - the very one that, according to Hitler, was destined to become the chosen one.

The very idea of ​​fascism is a product of the anal vector, elevated to an ideology for the masses with the help of a sound vector. After all, it is the carriers of the anal vector who differentiate everything into “clean” and “dirty.” “Pure”, in their minds, is healthy, correct, ideal. “Dirty” carries all sorts of defects, therefore blindness, deafness, schizophrenia, in the opinion of such people, arise due to the admixture of “dirty”, “unhealthy” blood of other nationalities. The only way out for the revival of “pure blood” is the destruction of all “stains”: people of other nationalities and their “offspring” - unhealthy children. Sound doesn't care about human lives. The idea is above all. Whether this idea will harm or benefit humanity depends on the state of the sound.

To ensure the "Aryan revival", extreme measures were taken. Firstly, all representatives of “dirty blood” were persecuted and sent to camps. Incest with representatives of other nationalities was not only discouraged, but also punished. Each SS member had to produce his and his wife's pedigree to prove the purity and nobility of their family. Every German had to go through such a process, so the facts of the presence of representatives of “dirty blood” in the family were hidden in every possible way. People were afraid to be among those sent to camps.

In 1933, the issue of racial politics came to a head. Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick pointed to the problem of low birth rates. German women gave birth little, which had a detrimental effect on the prosperity of the state. The decline of the family was noted - the influence of liberals and democrats. This is how new legislation on marriage and family was prepared (authors: Heinrich Himmler and Martin Bormann). The Nazis proceeded from the fact that many men would die during the war, and the women of Germany were entrusted with a responsible mission: to give birth to as many healthy children as possible. From now on, every German woman under the age of 35 must have time to give birth to four children from purebred men, and physically and mentally healthy men were allowed to marry not one, but two or more women. The goal is to increase the birth rate. As a rule, holders of the highest awards were given this right.

“All married or unmarried women, if they do not have four children, are obliged, before reaching the age of thirty-five, to give birth to these children from racially impeccable German men. Whether these men are married or not does not matter."- wrote Himmler, who proposed forcibly dissolving marriages where no new children had appeared for five years. Moreover, all women over 35 years of age who already had four children were required to voluntarily let their husband go to another woman.

But, unfortunately, not all children were and are born healthy. Newborns with physical and mental disabilities, as well as weak children, according to the ideologists of fascism, were not needed by the country, as they destroyed the gene pool. The ideological inspirer and leader of the fascists, Hitler, believed that the Aryans are an impeccable nation of strong and healthy people, therefore the weak, frail, and sick must be exterminated. “If a million children were born in Germany every year and seven hundred to eight hundred thousand of the weakest were immediately destroyed, the end result would be a strengthening of the nation.”- said Hitler. Systematically, one can understand the absurdity and wildness of this statement, since nature will always restore the balance it needs (20% of anal people, 24% of skin people, 5% of spectators, etc.).

Thus, a law was passed to prevent the appearance of offspring with unhealthy heredity. It was proposed to sterilize unhealthy people if there was a danger that the disease could be inherited. These were primarily people with schizophrenia, blindness and deafness. That is why, at the request of the state, propaganda videos were created that talked about natural selection: how nature itself created the law when the fittest survives. It was also planned to introduce euthanasia for weak and sick children.

The main goal facing anthropologists and doctors was the creation of an ideal nation. A special science also appeared - eugenics - which dealt with the issue of the revival of the Aryan race. The country was waiting for its “hero doctors”, captured by fascist ideas, and waited - Joseph Mengele, Doctor Death, appeared, obsessed with the idea of ​​​​a pure race so much that he was ready to cross the Hippocratic oath and any ethical standards and guidelines familiar to every person.

Josef Mengele's childhood

Josef Mengele was born in Günzburg. He was the second son in the family of a successful manager of an agricultural machinery factory.

Unfortunately, due to insufficient facts, we can only determine the lower vectors of the parents. The father, according to the memoirs of Josef Mengele himself, was a cold, detached man, obsessed with work and not paying any attention to his children. Karl Mengele is an anal-skin man who has achieved significant heights. It was at his factory that Hitler spoke when he first arrived in Günzburg, and it was to this factory that the Fuhrer allocated significant material resources during the war.

Walburga Mengele's mother is an anal-cutaneous-muscular powerful person with sadistic tendencies. She was a cruel, despotic woman, extremely demanding. All the factory workers feared her like fire, because she was very hot-tempered and explosive: she often flogged workers in public for work that was not done well enough. No one wanted Walburga's wrath to fall on their head, so everyone was wary of her.

Mengele's mother also showed her dictatorial nature in the family. She was the sole mistress to whom all other family members, including her husband, were subordinate. Walburga demanded from her sons everything that parents with an anal vector often demand from their children: unquestioning obedience and respect, diligent study at school, observance of Catholic rites and traditions. Respect, obedience, adherence to traditions - all these are the main values ​​of any anal person. Karl Mengele, like everyone else, was afraid of the wrath of his wife, who nagged him for any reason.

The story is described of how Karl Mengele once bought a new car in honor of the increase in profits of his factory, for which thunder and lightning were rained down on him by Walburga: she was angry and scolded her husband for the unreasonable waste of money and for not asking permission from his wives.

Joseph Mengele himself in his memoirs described his mother as a creature incapable of love and affection. The early childhood impressions of the future Angel of Death are directly related to the constant quarrels between father and mother and the cold attitude of both parents towards their children. This undoubtedly left its mark on Joseph’s consciousness and was one of those pieces that made up the personality of Doctor Death, because the grievances of the owners of the anal vector very often begin with.

Actually Joseph Mengele himself

So, the “Angel of Death” had the following set of vectors:

Sylvia and her mother, like most Jews from that region, were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, on the main gate of which only three words promising suffering and death are inscribed in clear letters - Edem Das Seine.. (Abandon hope, all who enter here..).
Despite the severity of her stay in the camp, Sylvia was childishly happy - after all, her own mother was nearby. But they didn't have to be together for long. One day a dapper German officer appeared in the family block. His name was Joseph Mengele, also known by the nickname Angel of Death. Looking carefully at the faces, he walked in front of the lined up prisoners. Sylvia's mother realized that this was the beginning of the end. Her face was distorted by a desperate grimace, filled with suffering and grief. But her face was destined to reflect an even more terrible grimace, not even a grimace, but a mask of Death, when in a few days she would suffer on the operating table of the inquisitive Joseph Mengele. So, a few days later Sylvia, along with other children, was transferred to children's block 15. So she parted forever with her mother, who soon, as already noted, found death under the knife of the Angel of Death.

The first concentration camp in Germany was opened in 1933. The last one working was captured by Soviet troops in 1945. Between these two dates there are millions of tortured prisoners who died from backbreaking work, strangled in gas chambers, shot by the SS. And those who died from “medical experiments.” >>> Nobody knows for sure how many of these last ones there were. Hundreds of thousands. Why are we writing about this many years after the end of the war? Because inhumane experiments on people in Nazi concentration camps are also History, the history of medicine. Its darkest, but no less interesting page...

Medical experiments were carried out in almost all of the largest concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Among the doctors who led these experiments there were many completely different people.

Dr. Wirtz was involved in lung cancer research and studied surgical options. Professor Clauberg and Dr. Schumann, as well as Dr. Glauberg, conducted experiments on sterilization of people in the concentration camp of the Konighütte Institute.

Dr. Dohmenom in Sachsenhausen worked on research into infectious jaundice and the search for a vaccine against it. Professor Hagen in Natzweiler studied typhus and also looked for a vaccine. The Germans also researched malaria. Many camps conducted research into the effects of various chemicals on humans.

There were people like Rasher. His experiments in studying methods of warming frostbitten people brought him fame, many awards in Nazi Germany and, as it later turned out, real results. But he fell into the trap of his own theories. In addition to his main medical activities, he carried out orders from the authorities. And by exploring the possibilities of infertility treatment, he deceived the regime. His children, whom he passed off as his own, turned out to be adopted, and his wife was infertile. When the Reich found out about this, the doctor and his wife were sent to a concentration camp, and at the end of the war they were executed.

There were mediocrities, such as Arnold Dohmen, who infected people with hepatitis and tried to treat them by puncturing the liver. This heinous act had no scientific value, which was clear to Reich specialists from the very beginning.

Or people like Hermann Voss, who did not personally participate in the experiments, but studied the materials of other people’s experiments with blood, obtaining information through the Gestapo. Every German medical student knows his anatomy textbook today.

Or such fanatics as Professor August Hirt, who studied the corpses of those who were exterminated at Auschwitz. A doctor who experimented on animals, on people, and on himself.

But our story is not about them. Our story tells of Josef Mengele, remembered in History as the Angel of Death or Doctor Death, a cold-blooded man who killed his victims by injecting chloroform into their hearts so he could personally perform autopsies and observe their internal organs.

Josef Mengele, the most famous of the Nazi doctor-criminals, was born in Bavaria in 1911. He studied philosophy at the University of Munich and medicine at the University of Frankfurt. In 1934 he joined the SA and became a member of the National Socialist Party, and in 1937 he joined the SS. He worked at the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. Dissertation topic: "Morphological studies of the structure of the lower jaw of representatives of four races."

After the outbreak of World War II, he served as a military doctor in the SS Viking division in France, Poland and Russia. In 1942, he received the Iron Cross for saving two tank crews from a burning tank. After being wounded, SS-Hauptsturmführer Mengele was declared unfit for combat service and in 1943 was appointed chief physician of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The prisoners soon nicknamed him "the angel of death."

In addition to its main function - the destruction of "inferior races", prisoners of war, communists and simply the dissatisfied, concentration camps performed another function in Nazi Germany. With the arrival of Mengele, Auschwitz became a "major scientific research center." Unfortunately for the prisoners, the range of Joseph Mengele’s “scientific” interests was unusually wide. He began with work on “increasing the fertility of Aryan women.” It is clear that the material for research was non-Aryan women. Then the Fatherland set a new, directly opposite task: to find the cheapest and most effective methods of limiting the birth rate of “subhumans” - Jews, Gypsies and Slavs. Having mutilated tens of thousands of men and women, Mengele came to the conclusion: the most reliable way to avoid conception is castration.

The “research” went on as usual. The Wehrmacht ordered a topic: to find out everything about the effects of cold on a soldier’s body (hypothermia). The experimental methodology was the most simple: a concentration camp prisoner is taken, covered on all sides with ice, “doctors” in SS uniforms constantly measure body temperature... When a test subject dies, a new one is brought from the barracks. Conclusion: after the body has cooled below 30 degrees, it is most likely impossible to save a person. The best way to warm up is a hot bath and the “natural warmth of the female body.”

The Luftwaffe, the German air force, commissioned research on the effect of high altitude on pilot performance. A pressure chamber was built in Auschwitz. Thousands of prisoners suffered a terrible death: with ultra-low pressure, a person was simply torn apart. Conclusion: it is necessary to build aircraft with a pressurized cabin. By the way, not a single one of these aircraft took off in Germany until the very end of the war.

On his own initiative, Joseph Mengele, who became interested in racial theory in his youth, conducted experiments with eye color. For some reason, he needed to prove in practice that the brown eyes of Jews under no circumstances could become the blue eyes of a “true Aryan.” He gives hundreds of Jews injections of blue dye - extremely painful and often leading to blindness. The conclusion is obvious: a Jew cannot be turned into an Aryan.

Tens of thousands of people became victims of Mengele’s monstrous experiments. What is the value of research alone on the effects of physical and mental exhaustion on the human body! And the “study” of 3 thousand young twins, of which only 200 survived! The twins received blood transfusions and organ transplants from each other. Sisters were forced to bear children from their brothers. Forced gender reassignment operations were carried out. Before starting the experiments, the good doctor Mengele could pat the child on the head, treat him with chocolate... the goal was to establish how twins are born. The results of these studies were supposed to help strengthen the Aryan race. Among his experiments were attempts to change eye color by injecting various chemicals into the eyes, amputations of organs, attempts to sew twins together, and other macabre operations. The people who survived these experiments were killed.

From block 15, the girl was taken to hell - hell number 10. In that block, Joseph Mengele conducted medical experiments. Several times she underwent spinal puncture, and then surgical operations during savage experiments on merging dog meat with the human body...

However, the chief doctor of Auschwitz was engaged not only in applied research. He was not averse to “pure science.” Concentration camp prisoners were deliberately infected with various diseases in order to test the effectiveness of new drugs on them. Last year, one of the former prisoners of Auschwitz sued the German pharmaceutical company Bayer. The makers of aspirin are accused of using concentration camp prisoners to test their sleeping pill. Judging by the fact that soon after the start of the “approbation” the concern additionally purchased 150 more Auschwitz prisoners, no one was able to wake up after the new sleeping pills. By the way, other representatives of German business also collaborated with the concentration camp system. The largest chemical concern in Germany, IG Farbenindustri, made not only synthetic gasoline for tanks, but also Zyklon-B gas for the gas chambers of the same Auschwitz. After the war, the giant company was “disintegrated.” Some of the fragments of IG Farbenindustry are well known in our country. Including as drug manufacturers.

In 1945, Josef Mengele carefully destroyed all the collected “data” and escaped from Auschwitz. Until 1949, Mengele worked quietly in his native Günzburg at his father’s company. Then, using new documents in the name of Helmut Gregor, he emigrated to Argentina. He received his passport quite legally, through... the Red Cross. In those years, this organization provided charity, issued passports and travel documents to tens of thousands of refugees from Germany. Perhaps Mengele's fake ID simply could not be thoroughly checked. Moreover, the art of forging documents in the Third Reich reached unprecedented heights.

One way or another, Mengele ended up in South America. In the early 50s, when Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest (with the right to kill him upon arrest), Iyozef moved to Paraguay. However, all this was rather a sham, a game of catching Nazis. Still with the same passport in the name of Gregor, Joseph Mengele repeatedly visited Europe, where his wife and son remained. The Swiss police watched his every move - and did nothing!

The man responsible for tens of thousands of murders lived in prosperity and contentment until 1979. The victims did not appear to him in his dreams. His soul, if there was one, remained pure. Justice was not served. Mengele drowned in the warm ocean while swimming on a beach in Brazil. And the fact that the valiant agents of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad helped him drown is just a beautiful legend.

Josef Mengele managed a lot during his life: lived a happy childhood, received an excellent education at the university, had a happy family, raised children, experienced the taste of war and front-line life, engaged in “scientific research,” many of which were important for modern medicine, since Vaccines against various diseases were developed, and many other useful experiments were carried out that would not have been possible in a democratic state (in fact, the crimes of Mengele, like many of his colleagues, made a huge contribution to medicine), finally, being already in his old age, Joseph received a peaceful rest on the sandy shores of Latin America. Already on this well-deserved rest, Mengele was more than once forced to remember his past deeds - he more than once read articles in newspapers about his search, about the fee of 50,000 American dollars assigned for providing information about his whereabouts, about his atrocities against prisoners. Reading these articles, Joseph Mengele could not hide his sarcastic, sad smile, for which he was remembered by many of his victims - after all, he was in plain sight, swimming on public beaches, conducting active correspondence, visiting entertainment venues. And he could not understand the accusations of committing atrocities - he always looked at his experimental subjects only as material for experiments. He saw no difference between the experiments he carried out on beetles at school and those he carried out in Auschwitz. What regret can there be when an ordinary creature dies?!

In January 1945, Soviet soldiers carried Sylvia out of the block in their arms - her legs barely moved after the operations, and she weighed about 19 kilograms. The girl spent six long months in a hospital in Leningrad, where doctors did everything possible and impossible to restore her health. After being discharged from the hospital, she was sent to the Perm region to work on a state farm, and then transferred to the construction of a thermal power plant in Perm. It seemed that the tragic days were in the past. Although the work was not easy, Sylvia did not lose heart: the main thing was that peace came and she remained alive. She was 17 years old then.. /