Twin Experiments
Dr. Mengele was …show more content…
The second cause for the trials, was to artificially change eye color from any color to blue. He sought to change eye color synthetically. Mengele was so fascinated with eye color that he was determined to experiment on unknowing victims. He inserted harmful chemicals into the eyes of his victims. Unfortunately, these studies also caused them to go blind or gave them an infection, due to the fact that these chemicals were often deadly or left harmful effects. One of the chemicals injected into the eyes was methylene blue which only caused pain to the victim and had no other effect to the person and there was only one who died.
Gender Experiments
In one of Mengele’s surgeries, he also attempted to change the gender of some of the children without consent. He would remove the males’ “private parts”, and he would extract the organs as well. All of these operations were done without the use of anesthesia, which would mean that the victims would be awake and suffer the pain at the same time. These surgeries often ended with the person dead, if the person was a twin the other would often be killed so they could compare their organs, and if the person had colored eyes Mengele would collect their eyeballs in order to further his research on heterochromia.
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Unfortunately, he did not say who would live and who would die; he just sent them left or right. Furthermore, there was a time when a mother did not wish to be seperated from her daughter who was sent left, to die, while she was sent to one of the work camps. The mother began to fight her way to the line her child was in; Mengele then proceeded and shot both the woman and the child. Afterwards, he sent all those who were in the same train car to the gas chambers including those who were already chosen to do work.
After the War
Following the World War 2, Mengele was able to evade the internment of the Nazi war criminal; he was able to escape Auschwitz by impersonating a standard German soldier. Afterwards, he was captured as a Prisoner of War, (POW), and then released by the U.S who at the time had no idea that his name had been on the war criminal list for his experiments on the Jewish and Gypsy children. Eventually, with a false identity he left Europe to South America, specifically Argentina; he was able to achieve this with the help of his family and the Red Cross who unknowingly gave him the papers.
Mengele in South