As a prisoner of Auschwitz, she helped thousands of captive women survive. By performing secret abortions, Gisella Pearl saved women and their unborn children from the sadistic experiments of Dr. Mengele, who left no one alive. And after the war, this courageous doctor calmed down only when she delivered births to three thousand women.
In 1944, the Nazis invaded Hungary. This is exactly how the doctor Gisella Perl lived at that time. She was first moved to a ghetto, and then with her entire family, son, husband, parents, like thousands of other Jews, they were sent to a camp. There, many prisoners were distributed immediately upon arrival and taken to the crematorium, but some, subjected to a humiliating disinfection procedure, were left in the camp and distributed among blocks. Gisella fell into this group.
Hungarian Jews near the train after arriving at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Then she remembered that in one of the blocks there were cages where hundreds of young, healthy women were sitting. They were used as blood donors for German soldiers. Some girls, pale, exhausted, lay on the floor, they could not even talk, but they were not left alone, periodically the remaining blood was taken from their veins. Gisella kept an ampoule of poison and even tried to use it somehow. But nothing worked out for her - either her body turned out to be stronger than the poison, or providence intended to keep her alive.
Women prisoners in a barracks. Auschwitz. January 1945.
Gisella helped women in any way she could, sometimes even simply with her optimism - she told amazing and bright stories that gave hope to desperate women. Having no tools, no medicines, no painkillers, in conditions of complete unsanitary conditions, she managed to perform operations using only a knife, inserting a gag into the women’s mouths so that screams could not be heard.
Gisella was assigned as an assistant at the camp clinic to Dr. Josef Mengele. On his instructions, camp doctors were required to report all pregnant women whom he took for his terrible experiments on women and their children. Gisella, in order to prevent this, tried to save women from pregnancy, secretly giving them abortions and causing artificial birth, so that they would not end up with Mengele. The day after the operation, women already had to go to work so as not to arouse suspicion. So that they could rest, Gisella diagnosed them with severe pneumonia. Dr. Gisella Perl performed about three thousand operations in Auschwitz, hoping that the women she operated on would still be able to give birth to children in the future.
Pregnant women in the Auschwitz camp.
At the end of the war, some of the prisoners, including Gisella, were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen camp. They were released in 1945, but few of the prisoners lived to see this bright day. Upon release, Gisella tried to find her relatives, but learned that they had all died. In 1947 she left for the USA. She was afraid to become a doctor again, the memories of those months of hell in Mengele’s laboratory haunted her, but soon, nevertheless, she decided to return to her profession, especially since she had gained colossal experience.
Autobiographical book by Gisela Perl, published after the war.
But problems arose - she was suspected of having connections with the Nazis. Indeed, in the laboratory she at times had to be an assistant to the sadist Mengele in his sophisticated and inhumane experiments, but at night, in the barracks, she did everything in her power to help women, alleviate suffering, save them. Finally, all suspicions were removed, and she was able to begin work at a New York hospital as a gynecologist. And every time she entered the delivery room, she prayed: “God, you owe me a life, a living child.” Over the next few years, Dr. Giza helped more than three thousand babies be born.
In 1979, Gisella moved to live and work in Israel. She remembered how, in the stuffy carriage that was taking her and her family to the camp, she and her husband and father vowed to meet each other in Jerusalem. In 1988, Dr. Gisella died and was buried in Jerusalem. More than a hundred people came to see Gisella Pearl off on her final journey, and in a report about her death, the Jerusalem Post newspaper called Dr. Giza “the angel of Auschwitz.”
Among all the Nazi criminals from the Third Reich, one stands out in particular, who, perhaps, even among the most vile murderers and vile sadists, rightfully takes the place of the most vile of the vile. Some of the Nazis can, albeit with great stretch, be classified as lost sheep who turned into wolves. Others take their place as ideological criminals. But this one... This one did his dirty work with obvious pleasure, even with pleasure, satisfying his basest, wildest desires. This complexed, sick creature combined Nazi ideas with obvious mental disorders and earned the nickname “Doctor Death.” Sometimes, however, he was called almost the “angel of death.” But this is too flattering a nickname for him. We are talking about the so-called Dr. Josef Mengele - the executioner from Auschwitz, who miraculously escaped human judgment, but, it seems, only in order to wait for a higher judgment.
Joseph Mengele received Nazi training from childhood. The fact is that he, born in 1911 in Günzburg, Bavaria, was the son of the founder of an agricultural equipment company, Karl Mengele. The company was called “Karl Mengele and Sons” (Joseph had two brothers - Karl and Alois). Naturally, the prosperity of the company depended on how the farmers felt. Farmers, like, in fact, millions of other Germans, after the defeat of Germany in the First World War and the most severe political and economic sanctions imposed against it, as they would say now, did not feel well. And it is not surprising that when Hitler came to power with his Nazi party and his unbridled populism, who promised mountains of gold to shopkeepers and the average bourgeoisie, seeing his electoral base in them, Karl Mengele supported the Nazis with all his heart and part of his wallet. So the son was brought up in “appropriate” conditions.
Misanthropic dissertation
By the way, Joseph Mengele did not immediately go to study medicine (yes, he refused to continue his father’s work, apparently, from a young age he was drawn to experiments on people), no. First, he plunged into the activities of the right-wing conservative-monarchist organization "Steel Helmet", which had two wings - political and military. However, many political organizations in Germany in those years had their own fighters on hand. Including communists. Later, namely in 1933, the “Steel Helmet” successfully joined the terrible SA (the organization of Nazi stormtroopers). But something went wrong. Perhaps Mengele sensed what the matter smelled like (the SA was subsequently virtually destroyed by Hitler, and the leadership led by Rehm was destroyed - such was the intra-Nazi competition). Or maybe, as the biographers of this fiend of hell claim, he actually developed health problems. Josef left the Steel Helm and went to study medicine. By the way, about passions and ideology. The topic of Mengele's doctoral dissertation was “Racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw.” So it was originally still that “scientist”.
The usual path of an ideological Nazi
Then Mengele did everything that a “righteous” Nazi was supposed to do. He joined, of course, the NSDAP. He didn't stop there. Became a member of the SS. Then he even ended up in the SS Viking Panzer Division. Well, like in a tank division. Of course, Mengele was not sitting in the tank. He was a doctor in the sapper battalion of this division and even received the Iron Cross. Reportedly for saving two tank crews who were pulled out of a burning tank. The war, or rather its active, risky phase, ended for Mengele already in 1942. He was wounded on the eastern front. He received treatment for a long time, but became unfit for service at the front. But they found him a “job,” as they say, “to his liking.” The one to which he had been heading his entire adult life. Pure executioner work. In May 1943 he became a "doctor" at Auschwitz. In the so-called “gypsy camp”. This is exactly what they say: let the wolf into the sheepfold.
Concentration camp career
But Mengele remained a simple “doctor” for only a little over a year. At the end of the summer of 1944, he was appointed “chief doctor” in Birkenau (Auschwitz was a whole system of camps, and Birkenau was the so-called inner camp). By the way, Mengele was transferred to Birkenau after the “gypsy camp” was closed. At the same time, all its inhabitants were simply taken and burned in gas chambers. In the new place, Mengele went wild. He personally met trains with arriving prisoners and decided who would go to work, who would go straight to the gas chambers, and who would go to experiments.
Hell of an experimenter
We will not describe in detail exactly how Mengele abused the prisoners. This is all too disgusting and inhumane. Let us present just a few facts to clarify for the reader the direction of his, so to speak, “scientific experiments.” And this educated barbarian believed, yes, believed that he was engaged in “science.” And for the sake of this very “science” people can be subjected to any torture and bullying. It is clear that there was no smell of science there.
It smelled, as mentioned above, of this bastard’s complexes creeping out, of his personal sadistic inclinations, which he satisfied under the guise of scientific necessity.
What did Mengele do?
It is clear that he had no shortage of “test subjects”. And therefore, he did not spare the “consumables” that he considered the prisoners who fell into his clutches. Even the survivors of his terrible experiments were then killed. But this bastard was sorry for the painkiller, which was, of course, necessary for the “great German army.” And he carried out all his experiments on living people, including amputations and even dissections (!) of prisoners without anesthesia. It was especially hard on the twins. The sadist had a special interest in them. He carefully looked for them among the prisoners and dragged them to his torture chamber. And, for example, he sewed two together, trying to make one out of them. He sprayed chemicals into the eyes of children, allegedly looking for a way to change the color of the iris of the eyes. He, you see, was researching female endurance. And to do this, I passed a high voltage current through them. Or, here is the famous case when Mengele sterilized an entire group of Polish Catholic nuns. Do you know how? Using X-rays. It must be said that for Mengele all the camp prisoners were “subhumans.”
But it was the gypsies and Jews who received the most attention. However, let's stop depicting these “experiments”. Just believe that this was truly a monster of the human race.
Gray "rat trails"
Some of the readers probably know what “rat trails” are. This is what American intelligence agencies called the escape routes they identified for Nazi criminals after defeat in the war, in order to avoid prosecution and punishment for their atrocities. Evil tongues claim that these same American intelligence services themselves subsequently used “rat trails” to lead the Nazis out of attack and then use them for their own purposes. Many of the Nazis fled to Latin American countries.
One of the most famous “rat trails” is the one created by the famous ODESSA network, the brainchild of Otto Skorzeny himself. True, his involvement in this has not been proven. But it's not that important. The important thing is that it was thanks to precisely this “rat trail” that Josef Mengele fled to South America.
Hello Argentina
As we now know, Mengele really, like a rat, sensed the imminent sinking of the already leaky ship called the “Third Reich.” And of course, he understood that if he fell into the hands of the Soviet investigative authorities, he would not get away with it and would answer for everything to the fullest extent. Therefore, he fled closer to the Western allies of the USSR. This was in April 1945. He, dressed in a soldier's uniform, was detained. However, then a strange thing happened. Allegedly, Western specialists were unable to establish his real identity and... released him on all four sides. It’s hard to believe. Rather, the conclusion suggests itself about the deliberate removal of the sadist from trial. Although the general confusion at the end of the war could have played a role. Be that as it may, Mengele, after spending three years in Bavaria, fled along the “rat trail” to Argentina.
Escape from Mossad
We will not describe in detail the life of a Nazi criminal in Argentina. Let's just say that one day he almost fell into the hands of the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Mossad agents.
They were on his trail. But at the same time they were on the trail of the main Nazi “specialist in the final solution of the Jewish question” Adolf Eichmann. Trying to capture both at the same time was extremely risky.
And the Mossad settled on Eichmann, leaving Mengele for later. However, after Israeli intelligence literally kidnapped Eichmann from Buenos Aires, Mengele understood everything and quickly fled the city. First to Paraguay and then to Brazil.
The disease took revenge
It must be said that the Mossad was close several times to discovering and capturing Mengele, but something went wrong. So the famous sadist lived in Brazil until 1979. And then... One day he went swimming in the ocean. While taking ocean baths, he suffered a stroke. And Mengele drowned. It was only in 1985 that his grave was found. Only in 1992 were researchers finally convinced that the remains belonged to Mengele. After death, the Nazi and sadist still had to serve people. And, by the way, precisely in the scientific field. His remains serve as scientific material at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo.
We can all agree that the Nazis did terrible things during World War II. The Holocaust was perhaps their most famous crime. But terrible and inhuman things happened in the concentration camps that most people did not know about. Prisoners of the camps were used as test subjects in a variety of experiments, which were very painful and usually resulted in death.
Experiments with blood clotting
Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted blood clotting experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. He created a drug, Polygal, which included beets and apple pectin. He believed that these tablets could help stop bleeding from battle wounds or during surgery.
Each test subject was given a tablet of this drug and shot in the neck or chest to test its effectiveness. Then the prisoners' limbs were amputated without anesthesia. Dr. Rusher created a company to produce these pills, which also employed prisoners.
Experiments with sulfa drugs 
In the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the effectiveness of sulfonamides (or sulfonamide drugs) was tested on prisoners. Subjects were given incisions on the outside of their calves. Doctors then rubbed a mixture of bacteria into the open wounds and stitched them up. To simulate combat situations, glass shards were also inserted into the wounds.
However, this method turned out to be too soft compared to the conditions at the fronts. To simulate gunshot wounds, blood vessels were ligated on both sides to stop blood circulation. The prisoners were then given sulfa drugs. Despite the advances made in the scientific and pharmaceutical fields due to these experiments, prisoners suffered terrible pain that resulted in severe injury or even death.
Freezing and hypothermia experiments 
The German armies were ill-prepared for the cold they faced on the Eastern Front, from which thousands of soldiers died. As a result, Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Dachau to find out two things: the time required for body temperature to drop and death, and methods for reviving frozen people.
Naked prisoners were either placed in a barrel of ice water or forced outside in sub-zero temperatures. Most of the victims died. Those who had just lost consciousness were subjected to painful revival procedures. To revive the subjects, they were placed under sunlight lamps that burned their skin, forced to copulate with women, injected with boiling water, or placed in baths of warm water (which turned out to be the most effective method).
Experiments with incendiary bombs 
For three months in 1943 and 1944, Buchenwald prisoners were tested on the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals against phosphorus burns caused by incendiary bombs. The test subjects were specially burned with the phosphorus composition from these bombs, which was a very painful procedure. Prisoners suffered serious injuries during these experiments.
Experiments with sea water 
Experiments were carried out on prisoners at Dachau to find ways to turn sea water into drinking water. The subjects were divided into four groups, the members of which went without water, drank sea water, drank sea water treated according to the Burke method, and drank sea water without salt.
Subjects were given food and drink assigned to their group. Prisoners who received seawater of one kind or another eventually began to suffer from severe diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, went crazy and eventually died.
In addition, subjects underwent liver needle biopsies or lumbar punctures to collect data. These procedures were painful and in most cases resulted in death.
Experiments with poisons 
At Buchenwald, experiments were conducted on the effects of poisons on people. In 1943, prisoners were secretly injected with poisons.
Some died themselves from poisoned food. Others were killed for the sake of dissection. A year later, prisoners were shot with bullets filled with poison to speed up the collection of data. These test subjects experienced terrible torture.
Experiments with sterilization 
As part of the extermination of all non-Aryans, Nazi doctors conducted mass sterilization experiments on prisoners of various concentration camps in search of the least labor-intensive and cheapest method of sterilization.
In one series of experiments, a chemical irritant was injected into women's reproductive organs to block the fallopian tubes. Some women have died after this procedure. Other women were killed for autopsies.
In a number of other experiments, prisoners were exposed to strong X-rays, which resulted in severe burns on the abdomen, groin and buttocks. They were also left with incurable ulcers. Some test subjects died.
Experiments on bone, muscle and nerve regeneration and bone transplantation 
For about a year, experiments were carried out on prisoners in Ravensbrück to regenerate bones, muscles and nerves. Nerve surgeries involved removing segments of nerves from the lower extremities.
Experiments with bones involved breaking and setting bones in several places on the lower limbs. The fractures were not allowed to heal properly because doctors needed to study the healing process as well as test different healing methods.
Doctors also removed many fragments of the tibia from test subjects to study bone tissue regeneration. Bone transplants included transplanting fragments of the left tibia onto the right and vice versa. These experiments caused unbearable pain and severe injuries to the prisoners.
Experiments with typhus 
From the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1945, doctors carried out experiments on prisoners of Buchenwald and Natzweiler in the interests of the German armed forces. They tested vaccines against typhus and other diseases.
Approximately 75% of test subjects were injected with trial typhus vaccines or other chemicals. They were injected with the virus. As a result, more than 90% of them died.
The remaining 25% of experimental subjects were injected with the virus without any prior protection. Most of them did not survive. Doctors also conducted experiments related to yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid, and other diseases. Hundreds of prisoners died, and many more suffered unbearable pain as a result.
Twin experiments and genetic experiments 
The goal of the Holocaust was the elimination of all people of non-Aryan origin. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals and other people who did not meet certain requirements were to be exterminated so that only the "superior" Aryan race remained. Genetic experiments were carried out to provide the Nazi Party with scientific evidence of Aryan superiority.
Dr. Josef Mengele (also known as the "Angel of Death") was greatly interested in twins. He separated them from the rest of the prisoners upon their arrival at Auschwitz. Every day the twins had to donate blood. The actual purpose of this procedure is unknown.
Experiments with twins were extensive. They had to be carefully examined and every inch of their body measured. Comparisons were then made to determine hereditary traits. Sometimes doctors performed massive blood transfusions from one twin to the other.
Since people of Aryan origin mostly had blue eyes, experiments were done with chemical drops or injections into the iris to create them. These procedures were very painful and led to infections and even blindness.
Injections and lumbar punctures were done without anesthesia. One twin was specifically infected with the disease, and the other was not. If one twin died, the other twin was killed and studied for comparison.
Amputations and organ removals were also performed without anesthesia. Most twins who ended up in concentration camps died in one way or another, and their autopsies were the last experiments.
Experiments with high altitudes 
From March to August 1942, prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were used as test subjects in experiments to test human endurance at high altitudes. The results of these experiments were supposed to help the German air force.
The test subjects were placed in a low-pressure chamber in which atmospheric conditions were created at altitudes of up to 21,000 meters. Most of the test subjects died, and the survivors suffered from various injuries from being at high altitudes.
Experiments with malaria 
For more than three years, more than 1,000 Dachau prisoners were used in a series of experiments related to the search for a cure for malaria. Healthy prisoners became infected with mosquitoes or extracts from these mosquitoes.
Prisoners who fell ill with malaria were then treated with various drugs to test their effectiveness. Many prisoners died. The surviving prisoners suffered greatly and basically became disabled for the rest of their lives.
Joseph Mengele, a German doctor who conducted medical experiments on prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, was born on March 6, 1911. Mengele was personally involved in the selection of prisoners arriving at the camp, and conducted criminal experiments on prisoners, including men, children and women. Tens of thousands of people became its victims.
The terrible experiments of Dr. Mengele - the Nazi "Doctor Death"
"Death Factory" Auschwitz (Auschwitz) gained more and more terrible fame. If in the remaining concentration camps there was at least some hope of survival, then most of the Jews, Gypsies and Slavs staying in Auschwitz were destined to die either in gas chambers, or from backbreaking labor and serious illnesses, or from the experiments of a sinister doctor who was one one of the first persons meeting new arrivals at the train.
Auschwitz was known as a place where human experiments were carried out
Participation in the selection was one of his favorite “entertainment”. He always came to the train, even when it was not required of him. Looking perfect, smiling, happy, he decided who would die now and who would go on experiments. It was difficult to deceive his keen eye: Mengele always accurately saw the age and state of health of people. Many women, children under 15 and old people were immediately sent to the gas chambers. Only 30 percent of prisoners managed to avoid this fate and temporarily delay the date of their death.
Dr. Mengele always accurately saw the age and state of health of people
Joseph Mengele thirsted for power over people's destinies. It is not surprising that Auschwitz became a real paradise for the Angel of Death, who was capable of exterminating hundreds of thousands of defenseless people at a time, which he demonstrated in the very first days of work at the new place, when he ordered the extermination of 200 thousand Gypsies.
Chief physician of Birkenau (one of the inner camps of Auschwitz) and head of the research laboratory, Dr. Josef Mengele.
“On the night of July 31, 1944, a terrible scene of the destruction of a gypsy camp took place. Kneeling before Mengele and Boger, women and children begged for their life. But it didn't help. They were brutally beaten and forced into trucks. It was a terrible, nightmarish sight,” say surviving eyewitnesses.
Human life meant nothing to the “Angel of Death.” Mengele was cruel and merciless. Is there a typhus epidemic in the barracks? This means we will send the entire barracks to the gas chambers. This is the best way to stop the disease.
Joseph Mengele chose who to live and who to die, who to sterilize, who to operate on.
All experiments of the Angel of Death boiled down to two main tasks: to find an effective way that could influence the reduction in the birth rate of races disliked by the Nazis, and by all means to increase the birth rate of the Aryans.
Mengele had his own associates and followers. One of them was Irma Grese, a sadist who worked as a guard in the women's block. She took pleasure in tormenting the prisoners; she could take the lives of prisoners only because she was in a bad mood.
The head of the labor service of the women's block of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Irma Grese and his commandant SS Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Joseph Kramer under British escort in the courtyard of the prison in Celle, Germany.
Josef Mengele had followers. For example, Irma Grese, who is capable of taking the lives of prisoners due to a bad attitude
Josef Mengele's first task in reducing the birth rate was to develop the most effective method of sterilization for men and women. So he operated on boys and men without anesthesia and exposed women to X-rays.
To reduce the birth rate of Jews, Slavs and Gypsies, Mengele proposed the development of an effective method for sterilizing men and women
1945 Poland. Auschwitz concentration camp. Children, prisoners of the camp, are waiting for their release.
Eugenics, if you look at encyclopedias, is the study of human selection, that is, a science that seeks to improve the properties of heredity. Scientists making discoveries in eugenics argue that the human gene pool is degenerating and this must be fought.
Joseph Mengele believed that in order to breed a pure race, it is necessary to understand the reasons for the appearance of people with genetic “anomalies”
Joseph Mengele, as a representative of eugenics, faced an important task: in order to breed a pure race, it is necessary to understand the reasons for the appearance of people with genetic “anomalies”. That is why the Angel of Death was of great interest in dwarfs, giants and other people with genetic abnormalities.
Seven brothers and sisters, originally from the Romanian town of Rosvel, lived in a labor camp for almost a year.
When it came to experiments, people had their teeth and hair pulled out, extracts of cerebrospinal fluid were taken, unbearably hot and unbearably cold substances were poured into their ears, and terrible gynecological experiments were performed.
“The most terrible experiments of all were gynecological ones. Only those of us who were married went through them. We were tied to a table and systematic torture began. They inserted some objects into the uterus, pumped out blood from there, picked out the insides, pierced us with something and took pieces of samples. The pain was unbearable."
The results of the experiments were sent to Germany. Many scientific minds came to Auschwitz to listen to Joseph Mengele's reports on eugenics and experiments on Lilliputians.
Many scientific minds came to Auschwitz to listen to the reports of Josef Mengele
"Twins!" - this cry echoed over the crowd of prisoners, when suddenly the next twins or triplets timidly huddled together were discovered. They were kept alive and taken to a separate barracks, where the children were well fed and even given toys. A sweet, smiling doctor with a steely gaze often came to see them: he treated them to sweets and gave them rides around the camp in his car. However, Mengele did all this not out of sympathy or out of love for the children, but only with the cold calculation that they would not be afraid of his appearance when the time came for the next twins to go to the operating table. “My guinea pigs” was what the merciless Doctor Death called the twin children.
The interest in twins was not accidental. Mengele was worried about the main idea: if every German woman, instead of one child, gave birth to two or three healthy ones at once, the Aryan race could finally be reborn. That is why it was very important for the Angel of Death to study in the smallest detail all the structural features of identical twins. He hoped to understand how to artificially increase the birth rate of twins.
The twin experiments involved 1,500 pairs of twins, of which only 200 survived.
The first part of the experiments on twins was harmless enough. The doctor needed to carefully examine each pair of twins and compare all their body parts. Arms, legs, fingers, hands, ears and noses were measured centimeter by centimeter.
The Angel of Death meticulously recorded all measurements in tables. Everything is as it should be: on the shelves, neatly, precisely. As soon as the measurements were completed, the experiments on the twins moved into another phase. It was very important to check the body’s reactions to certain stimuli. To do this, they took one of the twins: he was injected with some dangerous virus, and the doctor observed: what will happen next? All results were again recorded and compared with the results of the other twin. If a child became very ill and was on the verge of death, then he was no longer interesting: he, while still alive, was either opened up or sent to a gas chamber.
Joseph Menge used 1,500 pairs in his experiments on twins, of which only 200 survived
The twins received blood transfusions, internal organ transplants (often from a pair of other twins), and dye segments injected into their eyes (to test whether brown Jewish eyes could become blue Aryan eyes). Many experiments were carried out without anesthesia. The children screamed and begged for mercy, but nothing could stop Mengele.
The idea is primary, the life of the “little people” is secondary. Dr. Mengele dreamed of revolutionizing the world (in particular the world of genetics) with his discoveries.
So the Angel of Death decided to create Siamese twins by stitching together gypsy twins. The children suffered terrible torment and blood poisoning began.
Josef Mengele with a colleague at the Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics. Kaiser Wilhelm. Late 1930s.
While doing terrible things and conducting inhuman experiments on people, Joseph Mengele everywhere hides behind science and his idea. At the same time, many of his experiments were not only inhumane, but also meaningless, not bringing any discovery to science. Experiments for the sake of experiments, torture, infliction of pain.
The Ovitz and Shlomowitz families and 168 twins enjoyed their long-awaited freedom. The children ran towards their saviors, crying and hugging. Is the nightmare over? No, he will now haunt the survivors for the rest of his life. When they feel bad or when they are sick, the ominous shadow of the mad Doctor Death and the horrors of Auschwitz will appear to them again. It was as if time had turned back and they were back in their 10th barracks.
Auschwitz, children in a camp liberated by the Red Army, 1945.
Today it is recognized that experiments by Nazi doctors over powerless concentration camp prisoners greatly helped the development of medicine. But this did not make these experiments any less monstrous and cruel. Butchers in white coats sent hundreds of prisoners to slaughter, considering them just animals.
When, after the war, the public learned about the atrocities of doctors with lightning in their buttonholes, a separate Nuremberg trial was held in the doctors’ case. Unfortunately, one of the main criminals managed to escape justice. Doctor Joseph Mengele escaped from doomed Germany in time!
Mengele conducted his inhumane experiments on prisoners of the concentration camp reporting to him. Among the captives the sadist was called " Angel of Death».
During his 21 months of work in Auschwitz, Joseph personally sent tens of thousands of people to the next world. Characteristically, until the end of his life the doctor never repented of his crimes.
Often in such people cruelty is combined with incredible cowardice. But Mengele was exception to the rule.
Before Auschwitz, Josef served as a doctor in a sapper battalion in one of the SS tank divisions. For saving two colleagues from a burning tank, the medic was even awarded the Iron Cross, first class!
After being seriously wounded, the future “Angel of Death” was declared unfit for service at the front. On May 24, 1943, Mengele took over the duties of the doctor of the “Gypsy camp” of Auschwitz. Within a year, Joseph rotted all his charges in gas chambers, after which he was promoted, becoming first physician of Birkenau.
For a retired military doctor, the concentration camp prisoners were simply consumables. Obsessed with the idea of racial purity, Mengele was ready to do anything to achieve his dreams.
Joseph conducted experiments on children with an ease that horrified even his colleagues. A monster in human form, the man cut his own steak for breakfast and dissected live babies with equal ease...
Of particular interest to Mengele were twins. The doctor was trying to understand what causes the birth of two very similar children.
Joseph's interest was purely practical: if every German woman, instead of one child, began to give birth to two or three at once, then there would be no need to worry about the fate of the Aryan nation.
Blood transfusions from one twin to the other were only the most harmless from Mengele's experiments. The fanatic transplanted the organs of twins, tried to repaint their eyes with chemicals, sewed living people together, wanting to form a single living organism out of brothers and sisters. Of course, all these experiments were carried out without anesthesia.
The cold-blooded cruelty of the scientist caused visceral fear in the captives. Many Auschwitz prisoners always remembered how Mengele greeted them at the gate.
To the point of impossibility clean and tidy Always dressed to the nines, the always cheerful and smiling Josef personally inspected each batch of new arrivals. Having selected the most interesting and healthy “specimens,” the doctor without hesitation sent the rest to the gas chambers.
To the cold-blooded bastard good luck. From 1945 to 1949, Mengele hid in Bavaria, and then, seizing the moment, fled to Argentina. Roaming around Latin America, the “Angel of Death” hid from Mossad agents hunting for his head for almost 35 years.
Until the end of his life, the inveterate Nazi claimed that “ never harmed anyone personally" But one day, while Joseph was swimming in the ocean, he had a stroke. The elderly sadist sank like a stone...
Josef Mengele always dreamed of becoming famous. The terrible criminal not only managed to evade justice, but also, in a sense, fulfilled his dream. But it’s unlikely that the doctor wanted his name to make people grimace in disgust as it does now!
Previously, we wrote about a concentration camp where the blood of child prisoners was pumped out!
And before that they talked about the secret Nazi project “Lebensborn”.
