Josef Mengele
Dubbed the Angel of Death for his cruel experiments on victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, Mengele fled to South America after Germany's defeat in World War II.
Mengele supervised an operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn together to create Siamses twins; the hands of the children became badly infected where the veins had been resected. Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of children in an attempt to change their eye color.
Josef Mengele's experiments were both physical and psychological; experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one twin to another, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. And injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, incestuous impregnations ...
One twin recalls the death of his brother: "Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why - perhaps because he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left my brother paralyzed. He could not walk anymore. Then they took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi anymore. I cannot tell you how I felt. It is impossible to put into words how I felt. They had taken away my father, my mother, my two older brothers - and now, my twin ..."
A survivor, Eva Mozes Kor, later recalled how a set of Gypsy twins was brought back from Mengele's lab after they were sewn back to back. Mengele had attempted to create a Siamese twin by connecting blood vessels and organs. The twins screamed day and night until gangrene set in, and after three days, they died ...
Auschwitz Survivor Says Pharmaceutical Giant Aided Nazis
Archives Suggest Bayer-Nazi Link
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Bayer is one of the best known and largest pharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. But what’s turning up in these long-forgotten archives puts the company in a much different light.