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There he worked in its largest camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, which served as an extermination center for Jews deported from all over Europe. He also had responsibility for the Zigeunerlager or 'Gypsy camp' of Birkenau, where from 1943 about 21,000 Romani men, women and children were interned. Closed on August 2, 1944, Mengele participated in the selection of the 2,893 Romani prisoners who would be murdered in the Birkenau gas chambers. Shortly thereafter he was appointed chief physician of Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) , and in November 1944 he was assigned to the Birkenau hospital for the SS. When transports of Jewish people arrived, the Auschwitz medical staff selected some suitable for forced labor, and the rest were at the mercy of the SS, who murdered them in the gas chambers.
Selection was also carried out in infirmaries and barracks to identify people who were injured, seriously ill or too weak to work, who were killed with lethal injections or gassed. It was Mengele's frequent participation in those sinister selections at Birkenau, to which he attended even when he did not reciprocate, that led some prisoners to nickname him " the angel of death ." The simple relationship between some types of experiments is horrifying, such as testing mass sterilization USA Phone Number methods , causing wounds or infections in prisoners to study the effects and test treatments, performing unnecessary surgeries and even sensitizing and dissecting prisoners for research or research purposes. to train health personnel . Auschwitz concentration camp where Josef Mengele, the angel of death, carried out his sinister experiments This photograph is a still from a Soviet film about the liberation of Auschwitz.
Boys and girls survivors of Auschwitz walk between two wire fences. Standing next to the nurse and behind them (wearing white hats) are two sets of twin sisters. During the years of operation of the camp, many boys and girls at Auschwitz were subjected to medical experiments by Josef Mengele. Copy: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Mengele's victims The victims of those experiments belonged mainly to two ethnic groups, Roma and Jews , whom Nazi ideology considered “subhuman” and a threat to the German “master race.” When an epidemic of noma (oral gangrene, a bacterial infection that mainly affects extremely malnourished minors and can be fatal) occurred among the Romani boys and girls of Birkenau , Mengele attributed it to their inherited traits and not to the conditions of the camp.
Selection was also carried out in infirmaries and barracks to identify people who were injured, seriously ill or too weak to work, who were killed with lethal injections or gassed. It was Mengele's frequent participation in those sinister selections at Birkenau, to which he attended even when he did not reciprocate, that led some prisoners to nickname him " the angel of death ." The simple relationship between some types of experiments is horrifying, such as testing mass sterilization USA Phone Number methods , causing wounds or infections in prisoners to study the effects and test treatments, performing unnecessary surgeries and even sensitizing and dissecting prisoners for research or research purposes. to train health personnel . Auschwitz concentration camp where Josef Mengele, the angel of death, carried out his sinister experiments This photograph is a still from a Soviet film about the liberation of Auschwitz.
Boys and girls survivors of Auschwitz walk between two wire fences. Standing next to the nurse and behind them (wearing white hats) are two sets of twin sisters. During the years of operation of the camp, many boys and girls at Auschwitz were subjected to medical experiments by Josef Mengele. Copy: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Mengele's victims The victims of those experiments belonged mainly to two ethnic groups, Roma and Jews , whom Nazi ideology considered “subhuman” and a threat to the German “master race.” When an epidemic of noma (oral gangrene, a bacterial infection that mainly affects extremely malnourished minors and can be fatal) occurred among the Romani boys and girls of Birkenau , Mengele attributed it to their inherited traits and not to the conditions of the camp.