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Josef Rudolf Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). [1]
Headed by Josef Mengele from 1943 to 1944, [13] twin experiments were of particular interest as one twin could serve as subject with the other as the control. [14] This research also hoped to gain insight in how Germans could reproduce more twins. [ 15 ]
Jewish twins were kept alive to be used in Josef Mengele's medical experiments. These children from Auschwitz were liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. The Luftwaffe performed a series of 360 to 400 experiments at Dachau and Auschwitz, in which hypothermia was induced in 280 to 300 victims.
Although Block 10 was in Auschwitz I, a part of the camp mainly used for male political prisoners, the experiments conducted were mostly on women. The main doctors who worked in Block 10 were Carl Clauberg, Horst Schumann, Eduard Wirths, Bruno Weber and August Hirt. Each of them had different methods in doing experiments on the inmates.
From left to right, Baer, Mengele and Höss at Solahütte. Both of the camp's most well-known commanders, Richard Baer and Rudolf Höss, are visible in the photographs. Josef Mengele, known to camp prisoners as the "Angel of Death", was a trained physician, who directed medical experiments on twin children in the camp. He regularly took part in ...
The school at Bullenhuser Damm. The Bullenhuser Damm School is located at 92–94 Bullenhuser Damm in the Rothenburgsort section of Hamburg, Germany – the site of the Bullenhuser Damm Massacre, the murder of 20 children and their adult caretakers at the very end of World War II's Holocaust – to hide evidence they were used as human subjects in brutal medical experimentation.
During World War II, inmates in Nazi concentration camps were subjected to medical experiments. Josef Mengele was the most notorious perpetrator, earning him the nickname "Angel of Death". Some doctors also ensured that inmates were painfully executed.
High-altitude experiments 20 years [29] Wilhelm Beiglböck: October 10, 1905: November 22, 1963: Sea water experiments 15 years [30] Otto Bickenbach: March 11, 1901: November 26, 1971: Poison gas experiments Life [31] Kurt Blome: January 31, 1894: October 10, 1969: Multiple: Acquitted [b] Karl Brandt: January 8, 1904: June 2, 1948: Injections ...