Nazi experiments | Angel of death (Dr. Mengele)

There has been no full evaluation of the numbers of victims of Nazi research, who the victims were, and of the frequency and types of experiments and research. However, an academic article titled The victims of unethical human experiments and coerced research under National Socialism gives a comprehensive evidence-based evaluation of the different categories of human victims. Evidently, the amount of human experiments done were assumed with a minimum of 15,754 documented victims.  

Experiments rapidly increased from 1942 reaching a climax in 1943. The experiments remained at a high level of intensity despite imminent German defeat in 1945. There were more victims who survived than were killed as a part of or as a result of the experiments, and the survivors often had severe injuries.

In 1943, the extermination camp at Auschwitz, Poland received a 32-year-old doctor named Josef Mengele who would later earn the nickname "the Angel of Death." Upon arriving at Auschwitz, Mengele began experimenting on live Jewish prisoners. He injected or ordered others to inject thousands of inmates with everything from petrol to chloroform in the guise of medical "treatment." He also had a penchant for studying twins, whom he used to dissect. He managed to escape imprisonment after the war, first by working as a farm stableman in Bavaria, then by making his way to South America. He became a citizen of Paraguay in 1959. He later moved to Brazil, where he met up with another former Nazi party member, Wolfgang Gerhard. In 1985, a multinational team of forensic experts traveled to Brazil in search of Mengele. They determined that a man named Gerhard, believed to be Mengele, had died of a stroke while swimming in 1979. Dental records later confirmed that Mengele had, at some point, assumed Gerhard's identity, and was in fact the stroke victim.

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