...Aribert Heim conducted experiments and earned the name Dr.Death. Nazi’s used these prisoners as a resource for experiments to torture and test the limits of the human body. (2) One of the Doctors under the direction of Wirths at Auschwitz was doctor Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was nicknamed the “Angel of Death” for his role in the concentration camp. (1) Mengele was very interested in the prospects of twin experiments such to find out the origins of genetic diseases and also to see if they were connected in more ways than just by birth. (4) Most of the experiments done by Mengele were lethal and yielded little results he also prefered to use young subjects for his experiments, which is especially chilling. Another interesting fact about Dr.Mengele is that he was infatuated with differing the color of iris’s in the eyes of prisioners and even kept a collection of eyes to experiment on. (1)...
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