Why Did Mengele Study Anthropology
By conducting the twin studies at Auschwitz, Mengele hoped to discover and harness the secrets of heredity, but he failed in his goal because of his misguided understanding of genetics.
Since he was a juvenile, Mengele strove to flourish, wanting to be superior to his father. He wanted to become surpassed, he wanted to be recognized. In high school, he once told his best friend that he would be in the encyclopedia. This dying urge to prosper is what drove Mengele to study genetics and anthropology. That desire would also be the reason Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death.” Mengele would become even more superior to the SS soldiers at Auschwitz, he was feared. However successful he was in becoming acknowledged, his studies on the other hand …show more content…
He wanted to prove that human characteristics “from the shape of the nose, color of the eye, to obesity and left-handness were inherited.” According to his research, it is believed that Mengele was trying to find ways to induce multiple births, so that they could proliferate the weakened German Army. Although researchers know of his experiments, this was not always so. Mengele had a very firm veil of confidentiality within Auschwitz, on experiments he did. No one at Auschwitz- not the detainees, SS watchmen, or even other doctors- knew precisely what Mengele was doing with twins. Twins who went through the most gruesome experiments, took their secrets to their grave. It was not until the Bolsheviks had hold of Mengele’s work, including his secret notebook, that the world truly knew the horrors of what happened in twin experiments at Auschwitz. Aside from wanting to find proof that human characteristics are inherited, Mengele wanted to create the ultimate, master race of Aryan men and women. He believed that he could make these men and women and with superior heredity qualities and they would then rapidly populate and eventually rule the world. In his obsession of creating a master race, Mengele would perform frightening experiments, all in the name of scientific truth. The eye experiments were the most horrific. Mengele wanted to create people with blonde hair and blue eyes. He would do so with either chemical eye drops or
Since he was a juvenile, Mengele strove to flourish, wanting to be superior to his father. He wanted to become surpassed, he wanted to be recognized. In high school, he once told his best friend that he would be in the encyclopedia. This dying urge to prosper is what drove Mengele to study genetics and anthropology. That desire would also be the reason Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death.” Mengele would become even more superior to the SS soldiers at Auschwitz, he was feared. However successful he was in becoming acknowledged, his studies on the other hand …show more content…
He wanted to prove that human characteristics “from the shape of the nose, color of the eye, to obesity and left-handness were inherited.” According to his research, it is believed that Mengele was trying to find ways to induce multiple births, so that they could proliferate the weakened German Army. Although researchers know of his experiments, this was not always so. Mengele had a very firm veil of confidentiality within Auschwitz, on experiments he did. No one at Auschwitz- not the detainees, SS watchmen, or even other doctors- knew precisely what Mengele was doing with twins. Twins who went through the most gruesome experiments, took their secrets to their grave. It was not until the Bolsheviks had hold of Mengele’s work, including his secret notebook, that the world truly knew the horrors of what happened in twin experiments at Auschwitz. Aside from wanting to find proof that human characteristics are inherited, Mengele wanted to create the ultimate, master race of Aryan men and women. He believed that he could make these men and women and with superior heredity qualities and they would then rapidly populate and eventually rule the world. In his obsession of creating a master race, Mengele would perform frightening experiments, all in the name of scientific truth. The eye experiments were the most horrific. Mengele wanted to create people with blonde hair and blue eyes. He would do so with either chemical eye drops or