Experiments
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Twins and dwarfs caught Mengele’s eyes. He would try to find out how twins were created in hopes of making women always have twins to create a larger German race. He would deliberately infect twins with the same disease to see the different affects that it would have. |
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Several times patients were bled to death on accident just by
taking blood samples from them.
| Mengele was so horrid that he dissected a living person’s stomach without any anesthetics. Another time he took out a child’s beating heart without anesthetics to see how long the child would live. |
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As soon as Mengele found out that an entire block was infected with
lice, Mengele so called solved the problem by sending all seven hundred
and fifty women working there to the gas chambers.
The color of eyes caught Mengele’s attention.
He was very curious how a mother would have blue eyes and her
daughter brown ones. Especially
when twins had different colored eyes.
Mengele wanted to know what made eyes the color that they are and
if you can change that color. He
tried several times to change the color of eyes by injecting different
pigments into a patients eyeball. This
always caused a great amount of pain and most commonly resulted in damage
to the eye if not blindness. On
top of all of this, he never did find a way to change eye color.
Mengele also worked on things for the military.
He was worried that an army of soldiers would fall into a lake and
freeze to death or just run into cold weather without enough clothing on.
Mengele immediately became interested in body temperature.
He wanted to know how cold a body could get and still function
properly. To find out, Mengele made naked people stand outside in
snowy weather or put them in icy cold rooms, freeze them, then try to
bring them back to normal temperatures.
This rarely worked; only a few patients would survive the gruesome
experiment.
Sometimes people were forced into pressure chambers.
A legible reason for doing this is unknown. Many people say that Mengele would be laughing watching
people be put under so much pressure.
This was known as one of the worst experiments Mengele put his
patients through. Many people
would literally bang their heads against a wall to avoid suffering from
the pressure.
Mengele even tried to change the gender of people. He tried to turn a male into a female and a female into a male. There is no evidence of this ever working, and nobody ever live to tell about what they exactly went through.
He once supervised an operation where two Gypsy children together
to try to create Siamese twins. Their hands became badly infected
where the veins had been resected.
We might never know the full extent of the terrible experiments
Mengele performed. He shipped
out two truckloads of files and had them destroyed.
Survivors, to this day, are still trying to find out the extent of what exactly
was done to them under Mengele’s supervision.