Doctor Josef Mengele And His Significance To World War II

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labor camp that was known as "Auschwitz".

Josef Mengele In Auschwitz

Moreover, Mengele arrived in Auschwitz on May 30, 1943 and so did his infamous selection and experiments on the unlucky souls that were there. He often looked for twins during his selection for his wicked experiments, but he would also take in the aid of trained medical professionals among the prisoners to perform the more grisly tasks and to carry out autopsies upon his dead victims. Some of the gruesome experiments that Mengele performed includes, trying to change the colour of people's eyes. He would perform many experiments in effort to try to figure out how to artificially change eye colour. He would also collect the eyes of his murdered victims to furnish "research material" to his colleague Karin Magnussen, a eye pigmentation researcher at KWI .

Another one of his twisted experiments was mass blood transfusion from one twin to the other, making the donor twin to pass out and most likely die from ...

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