Some evil nazi camp doctor, i dont much about him though honestly.
Mengele used Auschwitz as an opportunity to continue his research on heredity, using inmates for
human experimentation. He was particularly interested in twins, who were selected and placed in special
barracks. He also studied a disease called
Noma, which particularly affected children from the Gypsy camp. While the cause of Noma remains relatively unknown, it is now known that it affects chiefly children suffering from
malnutrition and a weak
immune system, and many develop the disease shortly after having suffered another illness like
measles or
tuberculosis. Mengele tried to prove that Noma was caused by racial inferiority.
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Mengele took an interest in physical abnormalities discovered among the arrivals at the concentration camp. This included dwarves, notably the
Ovitz family, a
Jewish Romanian artist's family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves. Prior to their deportation they toured in
Eastern Europe as the
Lilliput Troupe. He often called them "my dwarf family;" to him they seemed to be the perfect expression of "the abnorm."
Mengele's experiments were of dubious scientific value, including attempts to change eye colour by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, various
amputations of limbs and other brutal
surgeries.
Rena Gelissen's account of her time in Auschwitz details certain experiments performed on female prisoners around October 1943. During
roll calls Mengele would show up to perform a "special work detail" selection, which fooled some into thinking that this would be a relief from the otherwise
hard labour they were performing. Mengele would experiment on the chosen girls, performing
sterilization and
shock treatments. Most of the victims died, either due to the experiments or later infections.
A
Hungarian Jewish prisoner doctor,
Miklos Nyiszli, who was an experienced
pathologist and had studied in Germany, was chosen to work as Mengele's assistant, and wrote about his experiences. The subjects of Mengele's research were better fed and housed than ordinary prisoners and were for the time being safe from the gas chambers. To Mengele they were nevertheless not fellow
human beings, but rather material on which to conduct his experiments. On several occasions he killed subjects simply to be able to
dissect them afterwards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele#Human_experimentation