#JosephMengele aka the Angel of Death died #OTD in 1979

 

He was a German war criminal responsible for deadly pseudo medical experiments in #KLAuschwitz. #JosephMengele aka the Angel of Death died 🗓 #OTD in 1979. You can view his file in the SS personnel database on our website. ➡ https://t.co/kIDxaWXoYu pic.twitter.com/dMj42bSL8T

— Institute of National Remembrance (@ipngovpl_eng) February 7, 2022

Z relacji Miklósa Nyiszli, więźnia nr A-8450: The laboratory and dissecting room had been set up at the wish of my boss, Doctor Mengele, to satisfy his scientific ambitions. […] The concentration camp here opened up unlimited opportunities to perform anatomical and pathological examinations on the very numerous cases of suicide as well as research into the phenomena of twins and the growth disorders in both dwarfs and giants. There was no other place in the world where you could find so many bodies for dissection. I knew from my own experience that the world’s most renowned and largest clinics, institutes of forensic medicine and autopsy annually received no more than 100 to 150 bodies for dissection. At Auschwitz concentration camp, on the other hand, bodies available for “research” ran into millions. Anyone who crossed the camp gate could end up on the dissecting table. […].

When a new transport disembarked onto the ramp and the people started file up, one of the SS-men immediately approached them in search of twins and dwarfs. Mothers expected this to be something good for their children and handed them over without hesitation. The older ones assumed that by being twins they were an interesting subject for scientific research and that could only be to their advantage, so they volunteered. The dwarfs thought likewise. The twins and dwarfs were therefore separated from the rest and went to the right side of the platform. SS guards escorted this particular group to a special barracks. There these prisoners received good food, comfortable beds, the necessary hygienic facilities and favourable treatment from the wardens.

This was Block 14 of Camp F [BIIf], whence the prisoners were escorted to the aforementioned experimental block in the Gypsy camp and it was there that they were subjected to all the medical examinations that could possibly be performed on a living human being. Blood tests, lumbar punctures, blood transfusions between twins and innumerable other experiments; all very painful and exhausting. […] The same procedure applied to the dwarfs. The experiments were carried out – under the presence of medical examinations – in vivo, that is on living organisms, and were in no way able to fully explain the phenomenon of twins from the scientific point of view. They were superficial, revealing very little on the subject. It was therefore necessary to move on to the next, most important phase of research: the post-mortem examination and the comparison of normal organs with ones that were malformed or simply sick. Such examinations required corpses. Because general autopsies and examinations of particular organs had to be carried out simultanously, the twins in the experimental barracks of section D [BIId] died simultaneously: Doctor Mengele killed them.

Źródło: Miklós Nyiszli, I was doctor Mengele’s assistant: the memoirs of an Auschwitz physician, Oświęcim 2001, s. 41–43.

O doktorze Mengele: This was the most dangerous type of criminal, one who also had incedible power at his disposition. […] This same criminal would spend hours sitting beside me in among the microscopes, test tubes and flasks or standing at the dissecting table in a bloodstained apron examining and rummaging with bloodstained hands. All for the sake of increasing the procreation of the Germanic race, so that ultimately there would be enough Germans to populate the Third Reich’s Lebensraum territories. That was, once they had been cleared of Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, the Dutch and other nations.

Źródło: Miklós Nyiszli, I was doctor Mengele’s assistant: the memoirs of an Auschwitz physician, Oświęcim 2001, s. 44.

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Concentration camps' functionaries - biographical notes and witness’ account