Born March 16, 1911 3. Angel of Death (had the looks of an
angel, but definitely didn't act like it) 4. Joined Nazi party in
1937 5. First was a part of the invasion in the Soviet Union, and
then was recruited to be a doctor 6. Nazi doctor 7. Worked at death
camp in Auschwitz
8. Continued
Always had an interest in twins and dwarfs 9. When he came to
the death camp, he was freely able to perform any experiment he
wanted 10. He was not the only doctor to do this, but is one of the
most recognized 11. Fled the country once the camp was liberated
12. Killed between 400,000 1 million people
13. What did he do?
Tortured individuals 14. Performed deadly and cruel experiments
15. Focused mainly on twins, who he did agreat deal of research
on
16. Who did he experiment on?
Men 17. Women 18. Children 19. Dwarfs 20. And more.. 21.
Performed on 3,000 sets of twins
22. Experiments Performed
Changed eye color by injecting dye 23. Chloroform injections
24. Sewed twins together 25. Sex changes 26. Removed organs and
limbs 27. Pressure chambers 28. Etc.
29. How He Decided Who To Experiment On
Would wait for people to get off trains 30. Then, would look
and decide who should stay and work and who would go with him 31.
Main focus was to grab twins, but would take who he could get 32.
Those who were saved were sent to his right 33. Those sent to his
left, were sent to the gas chambers
34. Twins
Mengele studied twin genetics 35. Before being experimented on,
twins were calmed down by given clean clones, candy, etc. 36. He
drove them to his lab where he performed extremely cruel
experiments 37. To them, he gave surgeries without anesthetics,
blood transfusions, injected lethal germs into twins. 38. In one
case, he tried to take one twins eye and sew it to the back of the
other twins head.
39. Special Treatment
Kept children in separate barracks than everyone else 40. Gave
them candy / spoiled them 41. Many called him uncle since he
treated them so kindly. This is how he got his nickname Angel of
Death. 42. Would treat them so kind...but would only later
experiment on them.
43. Why Did He Do Experiments?
He felt as if it was the right thing to do as a member of the
Nazi party. 44. Was trying to genetically create the perfect Aryan
race. 45. He used mothers that gave birth to twins to see if he
could induce multiple births in order to restore the Nazi army
which was decreasing. 46. He thought it was helping both his county
and science.
47. Life After Auschwitz
Became a German infantry soldier. Was captured but later
released 48. Moved to Argentina under a false name 49. Moved from
country to country in South America to avoid being captured 50.
Married his deceased brother's wife 51. Supposedly died on February
7, 1979 after suffering from a stroke while in the Brazilian
ocean
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