...insubordination. Medical experiments on the prisoners also resulted in death. Dr. Mengele, the man who had done taboo medical experiments on prisoners. This is the life of Josef Mengele from his life as a young individual, to becoming a very well known “doctor”, to becoming a wanted victim. This is the Angel of Death. Born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg , Josef Mengele was the oldest son of Karl Mengele. He lived in an upper middle class family which ran a machine tool business. His family was described as a “Strict Catholic” family. His peers in the town he lived in would describe Mengele as an intelligent and popular person. “A young person with intelligence but more or less ordinary” were the words of description from a close relative. From a very young age Josef Mengele was interested in the racial theories of Alfred Rosenberp, a philosopher of National Socialism. In 1935 Mengele graduated from the University of Munich with a Ph. D in physical anthropology. After graduating he got into believing racism towards Jews. Two years later he became an assistant of Dr. Omar Von Verschuer who was most and commonly known for researching twins. He then served as a medical officer in the beginning of World War II with the invasion of the Soviet Union, he redeemed four medals for his actions. That same year he joined the Nazi Party. Mengele was then transferred to Auschwitz in which he was most closely with selection duty than any other medical officer in Auschwitz. When Josef Mengele became...
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...Mengele’s Experiments The Jewish Josef Mengele asked the Jewish people for doctors. About fifty moved forward. Then he asked the fifty doctors if they studied pathology and forensic medicine, but only Doctor Nyiszli moved forward. That gave Doctor Nyiszli a place as Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Mengele used Doctor Nyiszli by making him dissect the bodies of Mengele’s experimental victims, just so Mengele could learn more about the Jewish people (Deem X). Doctor Joseph Mengele did terrible things to the Jewish people, such as using one of the Jewish to conduct his experiments on the Jews and his notorious twin experiments, Doctor Mengele conducted a possible seventy different medical research projects during the Holocaust....
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...century, and this was no different in WWII. The Nazi regime was obsessed with racial purity, and many experiments were conducted in the hopes of proving superiority was to be found in the aryan race. No Nazi doctor is more notorious than Josef Mengele. This paper examines the life, work and thinking of Mengele, and aims to show why he was above all, a power hungry sadist. Mengele was born the eldest of three brothers in Germany, 16th of March 1911. Growing up Mengele was well liked and found many interests in school, including art, music, and skiing. Though wealthy and popular, Josef left his hometown Gunzburg when he was only nineteen, due to what he referred to as his parents “coldness”. Josef went to Munich to go to the...
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...Josef Mengele the Angel of Death. Who is the Angel of Death? Josef Mengele, was once a normal human but soon became the Angel of Death. While the Holocaust was happening, a tragic moment between the Nazi's and Jews, a Man so cruel yet insecure was put to these insane tasks. It was not a choice, its life or death situation. How did the nickname "Angel of Death" came about? The way he earned his nickname "Angel of Death" or also know as "White Angel", was being assigned to a terrible task. The way things would work is that when Jews or Romans (Gypsy's) have a baby his job was to kill the poor baby on the spot. Josef was Head Chief as a Physician in Germany. Another words, he would kill inmates slowly by ending their pain from suffering...
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...doctors today take into account results from Nazi experiments? Dr. Robert Pozos founded the University of Minnesota’s Hypothermia Laboratory in 1977. Pozos used several volunteers for hypothermia experiments, but he would never allow their body temperature to drop below 95 degrees. Nazis allowed their victim’s temperatures to fall to 79.7 degrees before attempting to resuscitate them. Pozos discovered that the research Dr. Rascher had collected during the Third Reich from human experiments would close the gaps Pozos still needed in order to be successful. However, his attempt to publish his studies in the New England Journal of Medicine was promptly vetoed by the Journal’s editor, Dr. Arnold Relman. ''I don't see how any credence can be given to the work of unethical investigators. Given the source of the information and the way in which it was obtained, how can anyone believe it? How can anyone want to believe it?'' Relatedly, Dr. John Hayward, a biology professor at Victoria University in Vancouver, Canada, also conducted hypothermia research involving the Nazi data. "I don't want to have to use the Nazi data, but there is no other and will be no other in an ethical world. I've rationalized it a bit. But not to use it would be equally bad. I'm trying to make something constructive out of it. I use it with my guard up, but it's useful." In 1988, the administrator of the E.P.A., Lee Thomas, banned the use of Nazi data in an experiment involving phosgene gas following complaints from...
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...The doctors are turning Germany into an Infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house" (Rawlinson) They hired doctors like Josef Mengele who was called the “ Angel of death” ( Josef Mengele ) to perform...
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...Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 and died on February 7, 1979; also he was nicknamed The Angel of Death ( became the surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler’s “ Final Solution”), along with the other Nazi doctors at the death camps tortures men, women and children and did medical experiments of unspeakable horror during the Holocaust. Mengele enjoyed separating the people because he knows he would be able to kill people. He would put on his best uniform and even meeting trains when he wasn’t scheduled to do so also because of his good looks snappy uniform and obvious enjoyment of this horrible task, he was given that nickname. Mengele studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1935 his dissertation dealt...
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...plagued with monsters in its midst. These monsters feed off of every good and beautiful thing in the world; they are inhumanly cruel and wicked. Just like a disease, they eat at society at every angle until it is destroyed and they achieve their ambitions. A man named Josef Mengele comes to mind when the word monster is spoken. Working as head physician in Auschwitz during World War II, he selected gas chamber victims with delight and performed torturous experiments on the prisoners at the camp in hopes to learn how to create a perfect Aryan race. At the hands of propaganda and solitude, Josef Mangele's innocence was stolen and he was brainwashed into becoming...
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...Penn State HIST 121 Term Paper 23 April 2014 Children of the Holocaust This research essay is about the devastating and gruesome incidents pertaining to the children of the holocaust. This essay will cover the unbelievable lives these children had to live and the horrible pain they had to undergo threw this war of extermination. They suffered losses of family, friends, and many became orphaned or homeless. The holocaust took the lives of about 6 million Jewish men, women, and children. There were about 1.6 million Jewish children consisting from infants to teens living in Europe around the start of World War 2. Only about 11 percent of this range of children made it through the war. A lot of the parents chose to hide their children so they would have a better chance of surviving. The Jewish children were extremely discriminated against and were terribly affected by the Holocaust. Jewish children, along with their families, experienced persecution of revocation of citizenship, reduction of food ration, confiscations, deprivation of schooling and restricted access to public institutions. Many people could not figure out why the Jewish children were hated, or why they had to be prisoners. These children were left homeless and many orphaned. They had seen the Nazis murder their parents, siblings, relatives, and close friends. They had to endure starvation, sickness, and awful labor and other brutal acts until they were sent to gas chambers at the camps. Hiding a child...
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...abusive behavior; such leaders consist of Adolph Hitler, Josef Mengele, Ivan the Terrible, and Joseph Stalin to name a few. Adolph Hitler began his ruling of Germany in 1933. Using manipulation and charm, Hitler convinced German citizens that Germans were superior to everyone and thus, Hitler began his tyranny to pursue complete control (Children of the Holocaust, 2009). Adolph Hitler did not seem to have any compassion for human life; murdering millions, starvation, slavery, and torture are just a few of his deeds. The Holocaust was a time in which ordinary citizens were striving to stay alive, clinging to a beacon of light. Citizens trusted their ruler, seeking an understanding for the lack of work, food. A trust that was sadly, misplaced. Hitler turned Germany into a country of hatred, fear, violence, and aggression where every day would have felt like a bitter hell for the Jewish community. Adolph Hitler was ruthless and proudly abused the power he had over innocent, vulnerable human beings. Josef Mengele was an SS (Schutzstaffel) doctor in Germany during the reign of Adolf Hitler. As an SS doctor, Josef was part of an exclusive group considered Hitler’s personal security, medical, and combat forces. Josef conducted sinister human experiments to further his career in the medical field and sate a lust for curiosity. Mengele would perform distorting surgeries primarily on twins in attempt to create conjoined twins. Mengele showed a sadistic nature by using chemicals on parts...
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...19 March 2012 Life during the Holocaust: Life in the ghettos, Dr. Mengele’s medical care, and food in the camps Genocide during WWII was unbelievably cruel and awful. The Holocaust was sure to be remembered from this time period and have permanently engraved horrible memories into those who survived. During the Holocaust many victims suffered while living in the ghettos, soon to reach the camps they also suffered there as well. The encounters with Dr. Mengele were unbearable too. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is very important especially the fact that it accurately describes what really happened during the Holocaust. One of these many reasons is that Wiesel was an actual survivor of the Holocaust. His descriptions of his experiences in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and his trouble with small amounts of food in the camp greatly make us only able to imagine what he went through. Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night, along with other victims of the Holocaust was faced with many obstacles while living in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and forced labor. Living in the ghettos was the first step in being dehumanized. Elie Wiesel describes these experiences in his memoir Night. One example of these experiences that were described by Elie was that decrees were to be made in the Jewish ghettos. “We were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, attend the synagogue and must be in at sic o’ clock.”(Wiesel 9). These are for the Jews in the ghettos prior to full...
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...The Nuremberg Trials War crimes, in practice, are offenses charged against the losers of the war by victor. During WW II there were three types of war crimes were committed by Germany. The first: crimes against peace, which included preparing for and starting a war of aggression in violation of treaties. The second: murder, ill treatment, the killing of hostages; plunder of public or private property; the destruction of cities and towns. The third: crimes against humanity, which include persecution on racial, political, or religious grounds either before or during a war. All of these violations were raised on Germany's actions. Trials of the Nazi leaders begun on October 18, 1945, and lasted for 10 months. Trials of Japanese leaders began on May 3, 1946 in Tokyo and ended on November 12, 1948. There were more than 2,000 lesser trials accusing Nazi leaders of wrong doing. Even more took place in the Soviet Union. Most of the war criminals were convicted, and many were also executed. The Nuremberg Trials, one of the more substantial trials, accused 22 German Nazi leaders of war crimes. Altogether 12 were sentenced to death, including Keitel, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Bromann (who was tried in absentia), and Goering (who committed suicide). Only three, including Hess were given life sentences. Just four, including Doenitz and Speer were sentenced to up to 20 years of prison. Amazingly, three including Papen and Schacht were acquitted. These trials brought some...
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...Nazi Death Camps Nazi Death Camps Arbeit Macht Frei Arbeit Macht Frei 2012 Joseph Frimpong Western Civilization 2 11/2/2012 2012 Joseph Frimpong Western Civilization 2 11/2/2012 Arbeit macht frei; when translated into English means labor makes you free. This was the first thing many Jews in the 1940’s saw as the banner above the gates of the place they’d likely die read. (Wachsmann) German soldiers fed Jews false hope, thinking that the harder they worked the closer freedom would be when in reality freedom could only come with death. The world changed forever when an estimated 20,946,000 people died due to the world war ignited by Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The Third Reich was the name for Nazi Germany under Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) when it was a totalitarian state. Totalitarianism is a political system where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever necessary. (Dictionary) Soldiers were killed in battle, Civilians in cross fire, and by starvation but nothing compares to the systematic execution and elimination demonstrated by the Third Reich sponsored death camps. Before the organized concentration camps that are well known throughout the world to have killed a countless number of people there were camps built in the early 1930’s when the Nazi’s first came into power. Earlier camps were temporary and were set up to confine, interrogate, torture, and weaken...
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...Ethical Scrapbook Part 1 Johnathan Hendricks CJS/211 October 19th, 2015 Leesa A. McNeil Ethical Scrapbook Part 1 Good Samaritan Acts- Oprah Winfrey The bulk of Winfrey’s giving has gone to educational causes, including charter schools, programs that support African-American students, and the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. According to Forbes, Winfrey had given away approximately $400 million to educational causes by 2012, including nearly 400 scholarships to Morehouse College, and more than $40 million in operating support for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. She’s also given at least $10 million to A Better Chance. Its mission is to improve access to quality education for students of color, and has given $1 million or more to at least nine different charter school organizations in a number of different areas throughout the country (insidephilanthropy.com, 2015). Princess Diana Diana’s interests were reflected in the organizations of which she was Patron or President. These included the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London and the Royal Marsden Hospital, which specializes in the treatment of cancer. Her patronages also included Centrepoint, an organization working with the homeless, The National Aids Trust and The Leprosy Mission. The Princess's love of the arts was underlined by her involvement as Patron of the English National Ballet. During her lifetime she was at some time patron...
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