horrific things possible. There were many experiments conducted during the Holocaust‚ and they were arguably the most horrific part of this terrible event killing more than 3‚000 Jewish children alone. The Holocaust experiments began with Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele lacked a bad backstory to which no one can point a finger when attempting to explain his bad acts. As a
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Children of the Holocaust The Holocaust was a terrible genocide in which Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis killed millions of the Jewish community and others that they believed to be inferior to themselves. Jews were sent to concentration camps and killing camps because of their race. This slaughtering of innocent people lasted from 1933 to 1945. Among these deaths‚ some of the worst were those of children. Those Killed During the Holocaust‚ over 1.2 million Jewish children were killed. There
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Dr. Mengele violated the Jews rights at almost every turn. For example he experimented on the jews without their permission. Dr. Mengele was in charge of deciding who would be sent to the gas chambers upon arrival and who would work in each position. Mengele also wanted to figure out a way to breed the perfect person (Hitler youth‚ blond hair blue eyes). He would do various experiments
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The Twin Experiments was conducted by Josef Mengele‚ during World War 2 in Auschwitz. Dr. Mengle was a medical researcher who was fascinated with twins in specific. From the three thousand children that would be pulled from the masses of people upon arriving only about 200 survived. Age didn’t matter‚ yet most were children‚ and if they were really young their mother would be allowed to stay with them. The twins recieved "special" treatmeant as they were allowed to keep their hair and clothes. A
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The team of doctors was led by Josef Mengele. “Mengele had become interested in utilizing twins for medical research through Verschuer‚ famous for experimenting with identical and fraternal twins in order to trace the genetic origins of various diseases” (“Josef Mengele”). Because of this‚ Mengele used many young Jewish and Guypsy twins in painful and often deadly experiment. Many of their subjects were murdered in order to do post-mortem examination on them (“Josef
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handicap of to the world. With his persuasive words he caught the attention of the Nazi Party allowing him to gain power and attain his sinful goals. His plan of execution began when he hired his three henchmen‚ Adolf Eichmann‚ Heinrich Himmler‚ Dr‚ Josef Mengele. Allowing them to have the power to deport‚ incinerate‚ and use for human experiments. Adolf Hitler‚ the man of creating a dark era in our time
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different-colored irises and in the etiology and treatment of noma ("water cancer" of the cheek). This latter disease‚ widespread in the Gypsy Camp‚ had been previously almost unknown in Europe. Mengeles first experimental subjects wereGypsy children. He had a laboratory in the so-called "Gypsy Family Camp." On Mengele ’s orders‚ children suffering from noma were put to death in order for pathology investigations to be carried out. Organs and even complete heads of children were preserved and sent in jars
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experiments were undertaken. The range of the testing was broad and specialized. The two major groups of experiments were first to refine the master race and second to determine the cause of defects. Dr. Josef Mengele research on twins and Gypsies exemplifies the quest for the genetic studies. Dr. Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death”. He would be at every selection when the new trains would arrive at Auschwitz. After the victims were unloaded off the trains and stripped naked and divided into men
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person could be killed for having as little as a tiny scar‚ or because of a defect‚ or anything at all. The doctors of Block 10 are among the most remembered. The two doctors that stand out most are Josef Mengele and Ernst B. Josef was one of the cruelest doctors who killed many people. Mr. Mengele was said to be seen at selections night and day. In some cases he was even seen taking children to the gas chambers by playing a game with them. On the other hand Ernst was undoubtly different. So different
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In “I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz” was published in 1948 by Dr. Gisella Perl as an autobiography of her experiences as a Hungarian Jewish Gynecologist in Nazi concentration camps. Perl begins the novel before Nazi perversity eradicates her village and she recounts her experiences in the death camps. Perl divides the novel into short stories of all the people she encounters in her ultimate quest for survival. Perl devotes her memoir in recognition to the inhumane events that took place. Perl applies
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