Josef Mengele The Angel Of Death Analysis

The Angel of Death’s Disregard for Human Life
During the Second World War the Nazi party killed millions of people, especially Jewish people in the concentration camps like Auschwitz. Because of the Nazi thought that Jews were the worst thing that Germany could have, these people were killed and tortured till death even if they were healthy, adults, girls or boys they were destined to death. Even many of these people died from experiments such as the ones that the Angel of Death Dr. Josef Mengele practiced at one side of the camp near to Auschwitz. In the middle of this holocaust, the Angel of Death took power and he concentrated on children, especially twins, he held the power given by the Nazi party
with no supervision at all to do this cruel and brutal experiments.
Not only was Mengele wondering to preserve the Aryan race with these genetic experiments but also he did eradicate those people who seemed genetically inferior to him.
Once he performed his surgeries with dwarfs, midgets, hunchbacks along with other birth defects, his leaning was: the twins; they became part of his research. Twins were “privileged” and received better treatment; people considered them privileged because they were allowed to keep their own clothes not as the ones that had to use stripped clothes, but there was an evil intention behind this privileges that was to keep them healthy for his experiments and the cruelty that the group selected by Josef Mengele suffered was not less painful than the macabre practices conducted to people in Auschwitz.
Mengele 's experiments were performed not only physically but also psychologically; his surgeries included the extraction of organs like the limbs without any anesthesia, he considered to experiment changing the sex of the twins and also these practices included incestuous impregnation, apart from the fact that they were frozen to death and once the experiment was over you know you 'll be sent to the gas chamber while twins were innocently on the way they felt privileged to be inside a car with the "Uncle Mengele" or "Uncle Pepi" but that was the way to
death.
Nowadays, it is still unknown how many twins were killed in these experiments, but the ones that survived had seriously mental diseases.
Those who survived say there were some experiments performed that they will never talk about (Dekel, 70). Eye coloration was one of Mengele’s works that left his “patients” partially blind and his investigations on spinal dorsal left the guinea pigs paralyzed.“Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why- perhaps because he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left my brother paralyzed. He couldn´t walk anymore. Then they took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi anymore. I cannot tell how I felt. It is impossible to put into words how I felt. They had taken away my father, my mother, my two older brothers –and now, my twin” this is part of the speech of one who witnessed his twin brother death.
In conclusion, the cruelty of Mengele´s actions won’t ever be understood by anyone, the Nazi party gave him all the power to do this “serious work” and “he was only exercising his power” (Lynott), there is nothing compared with the agony people had to endure not only physically but also physiologically in Mengele´s
laboratory.

References
On this web site you can find information about Mengele’s twins: http://www.mengele.dk/
On this web site you can find information about Josef Mengele’s practices: http://www.auschwitz.dk/mengele.htm
On this web site you can find information about Josef Mengele and experimentation on human twins al Auschwitz: http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/lhs/science/mos/twins/mengele.html

Bibliography
Wells, Herbert George. A Short History of the World. United Kingdom: The bodley head and penguin books, 1922. 439 p.
Dekel, Sheila Cohn and Lucette Matalon Lagnado. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele.