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"Josef Mengele." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Web. 06 Mar. 2017.

Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911. Mengele attended Frankfurt University and
studied at Munich. Mengele joined the Nazis in the year of 1937. In 1942 the Russians
wounded Mengele while he was reporting as an SS officer. It was then when he decided
to become a physician for the Nazi party. Mengele was one of thirty physicians, which
he soon surpassed with his nickname, angel of death. Mengele would be very excited
during the days in which the selection took place. He was also the chief provider for the
gas chamber and had a major influence in what went on within the walls of the
crematorium. One time a barrack was infected with lice, so Mengele decided just to gas
all 800 of them to rid of the issue. Mengele had brutal tactics which would make his life
easier, but would kill the people in the camps. If someone would refuse to give up their
child, Mengele would kill the parent and the child along with those who surrounded
them. Along with his methods of torture, he had an extreme infatuation with twins. One
woman talks about how Mengele performed a surgery that left her twin brother paralyzed
from the waist down, then a few months later he was killed in another operation. After
the camps were liberated by American troops in 1945, Josef fled to Argentina. In 1979 he
went for a swim in Brazil and faced a massive stroke, he was dead by the time he was
brought to the shore.

"Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine |." The Holocaust History - A
People's and Survivor History - Remember.org. Web. 06 Mar. 2017.

Josef Mengele oversaw running a variety of tests to figure out how to replicate the Aryan
race. He ran tests such as: hypothermia, the sun lamp, and internal irrigation. The
hypothermia tests were run to see how long it would take for someone to die naked in a
temperature that would drop below zero. Then, the physicians would try to revive the
person after their heart had stopped beating. This test showed had a very high failure
rate. The Sun Lamp was a method where they would place a person underneath a lamp
so hot it would burn your skin. All victims suffered from very serious wounds and even
led to death in many cases. Internal Irrigation was when a victim who was frozen would
have scolding hot water forced into their bladder and other intestines with pumps. No one
survived this gruesome test. Some other tests were the Hot Bath, warming by body heat,
and genetic experiments. A victim would be placed in a bath where the temperature
would increase slowly. The body heat warmth experiment forced a woman to warm a
frozen man. Heinrich Himmler led this test. He believed that if the woman helped the
man, they would be able to engage in sexual intercourse. This was a twisted method that
did show success within some cases. The tests that were run by Mengele and other
physicians during the Holocaust showed that there was almost no success in any of the
victims who were tortured.
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Rosenberg, Jennifer. "A History of Mengele's Gruesome Experiments on Twins." ThoughtCo.

Web. 06 Mar. 2017.

Josef Mengele would perform many unique operations on children to increase the
population of the Aryan race. Mengele had an infatuation with twins. In the camps, SS
officers would ask for all twins to come forward. Some parents would hide their children
and others would allow them to be taken by the officer thinking that they would be safe.
Once the twins were in Mengeles care, they were treated as if they were in paradise.
They received bigger meals and got to skip the selection processes. Mengele would make
the children love him by giving them chocolates and other sorts of candy. The younger
children even referred to him as uncle Mengele. Every day, they would have blood
drawn and have detailed inspections that would last hours. Mengele would then select a
set of twins to go with him so he could run some tests. He would take one of the twins
and perform an operation that could leave them paralyzed or face long term injury. For
example, Josef would place one child outside in the could naked until they froze to death.
Then, after the one twin died, he ordered an SS officer to kill the other twin immediately
so he could perform an autopsy to see what killed the one twin.

"Selection." The Holocaust Explained. Web. 06 Mar. 2017.

The selection process at the concentration camps was a very well thought out method that
had taken place. All the men and women would line up and wait for their number to be
called. When the number was called, an SS officer would inspect them with a physician
standing by their side, most likely the infamous Josef Mengele. You were fortunate if
your number was not written down by one of the thirty physicians at Auschwitz. If your
number was written down, you would be informed later that day that the doctors did not
think your health was meeting the standards. From there, they gathered the weak and
held a final selection process. This decided whether they would give you one last chance
or send you to the gas chamber. The gas chambers looked like shower to calm the people
down, but then Zyclon-B would be dropped into the chamber killing everyone within
minutes. Those who were not selected for the gas chamber had to work brutal hours and
would receive little to no food. From those who were selected to work, some would be
taken into the car of Josef Mengele. He would decide whether you were qualified to be
one of his test guinea pigs.

Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.

Elie Wiesel faced the selection process several times throughout his journey at
Auschwitz. He discusses how the image of Josef Mengele is forever imbedded into his
memory. He came off as charming, but that was just a front. Mengele was ruthless and
did not care about the lived that surrounded him daily. He was indifferent. Mengele
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selected Elies father, but he passed the final test before he would have been killed. There
were other SS officers but, the angel of death was the most prominent. His brutal tactics
were well known throughout the death camps and he made sure that everyone knew it.
Mengele would kill people on the spot for disrespecting him or questioning him. He had
a notepad that he would carry around so he could write the weak peoples identification
number down.