NAZI MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS By Cameron Jones Block 4x

THE HOLOCAUST : HITLER’S FINAL SOLUTION December 8 th, 1941 Death camps begin extermination of jews Jews are collected from ghettos in Germany Sent to camps will they will either work or die Stayed in these camps for most of the duration of WW2 ( )

RACIAL EXPERIMENTS BEGIN Hitler wanted to mass produce the Aryan race With an endless supply of jews, he decided to go through with this Hired Joseph Mengele to start the experiments Ordered warcamps to have workshops for these experiments

JOSEPH MENGELE : WHAT A BEAUTY

JOSEPH MENGELE ( ) SS doctor who gave his service to the third reich Performed racial medical experiments on dwarfs and twins hunchbacks, pinheads, hermaphrodites, giants, dwarfs, obese men and corpulent women were all in the list of those Mengele chose from the lines Named “Angel of Death” by the Jews, Nazis, and historians Had a crazy curiosity to work with racial experiments Felt honored to work horrifying experiments on children and racially defected men or women He wasn’t a nice guy….

EXPERIMENTS ON DWARFS Mengele had only one family of dwarfs to be worked on Gave them special living quarters to keep them healthy He was obsessed with dna traced through blood Back then, scientists believed that every kind of dna was carried through blood plasma The experiments began on September 1 st, 1941 lecture about his experiments : surprised the dwarfs with makeup to look their best, then surprised them the next day by making them strip naked and be used as an example in front of the crowd

THE EXPERIMENTS COMMENCE The doctor extracted bone marrow, blood, skin, teeth, hair Would poor chemicals in the eyes to attempt changing their eye color The bodies of two of these dwarfs were boiled until the bones separated from the skin, and the skeletons were sent to a laboratory Mengele only had the one family of seven dwarfs, so the rest of the dwarfs were allowed to live to be used for experiments later This family made it back to their village after being released when the experiments were over

TWINS Mengele picked 1,500 sets of twins to be experimented on Fewer than 200 survived kids would be around 6 years old Tons of blood would be drained from twins He was trying to find the genetic material to make german woman reproduce Aryans faster Eye color experiments, one twin would be used as a control Most gruesome would be cutting parts of each twin off and putting it on the other twin to see if it would work Most of the evidence of these experiments were burned

EARLY GRATITUDE FOR BEING CHOSEN “I wish I was on schindler’s list, but I was on Mengele’s. It was better to be on Mengele’s list then on no list at all.” – Eva Mozes Kor, survivor Experiments had much better living arrangments Wouldn’t be killed One or two extra rations a week Got to leave once the experiments were over At first, some were happy to be an experiment But…..then reality hit and things got really bad

MENGELE’S DEATH After the war, Mengele fled to Brazil like many Nazi’s avoiding death He lived there until 1979, when he drownd His body was identified by relatives Most of the evidence was burned by either him or other nazi’s The personal diary of Mengele was found, while damaged

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