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The Angel Of Death And The Twins of Auschwitz

Editor: rale / December 8, 2009 / Category : People

Josef Mengele was a Nazi scientist involved in their famous genetics program that had the task of creating a master race of Aryan people. The job for Mengele, or the ‘Angel of Death’ as he was affectionately know, was to find ways to increase the chances of a mother giving birth to twins. While working at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Mengele did a number of particularly brutal experiments on twins; most died ether as a result of the surgery or of infected wounds later on.

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Experimentation block in Auschwitz - Block 10

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One night, the Angel of death lived up to his name when he rounded up 14 pairs of twins and put them to sleep in his operating theatre. He then injected chloroform directly into their hearts instantly killing them and proceeded to dissect them, taking notes on each piece of their bodies as meticulous autopsies were an important part of the experiments for Mengele.

In another bizarre experiment, he took a set of gypsy twins and sewed them together in order to create conjoined twins, surgically removing parts of the veins on their hands in the process and leaving them both with gangrene. One twin who survived being in the care of the doctor recalled how his brother came to lose his life;

“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.”

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Mengele's' House

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The twins of Auschwitz were housed in more comfortable barracks than other prisoners, were better fed and were safe from the gas chambers. He introduced himself to child twins as ‘Uncle Mengele’ and took them sweets, he was even referred to as ‘Mengele the Protector’ by some of his unsuspecting victims.

Most of the records kept by Mengele were lost or destroyed towards the end of the war so the full extent of his evil deeds will never be known. It is known however that during World War II, around 3,000 twins were to go to Auschwitz but only around 52 of them would make it out alive.

After the war, Mengele managed to escape Germany after receiving a false identity from unsuspecting Red Cross workers who supplied papers to thousands of refugees. He fled first to Argentina and then moved around South America in a bid to avoid capture and trial for his war crimes. Recently, claims have been made that he may have continued his genetic experiments, though in a humane manor, in Brazil in the 1960s. Scientists have been baffled for years as to why in a small town there, Candido Godoi, one in five pregnancies result in twins, most of whom have blond heir and blue eyes.

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  • Johnnywaswrong
    So what you're saying is that the Nazi's did what America and every single country is doing / has done... Go figure.
  • So scared knowing human abilities founded a way to reach something...
  • RaulJones
    Blah blah blah...if it's on the internets it gotta be true, huh?
  • MsConan
    that's like the story of the movie "the unborn" . . . .
  • You for real?
    This is f"#$ing ridiculous, have you seen the grammar and spelling used at the end, Manor? Heir? From the picture onwards is complete crap, written by a moron.
  • ushankari
    Gruesome acts by Mengele indeed.
    Yes, I came across this info about Brazilian twins. Another reason mentioned is consanguineous marriages which is the reason I mention in my article
    http://scienceray.com/biology/human-biology/the-twin-paradox/

    LOVED READING THE ARTICLE.
  • becwhatever
    The twins of Auschwitz were housed in more comfortable barracks than other prisoners........ ok WTF is this shit......wtf was so comfortable at Aushcwitz
  • Hezsilla
    Although there was nothing comfortable about Auschwitz, the statement made is true. Mengele wanted "his children" to be healthy "specimens" before he began his horrid experiments. They were indeed better housed, allowed to keep their hair, wore normal clothing and were well fed. Compared to the prisoners in the other barracks, they were definitely more "comfortable".
  • Nora
    Aaaaaactually, that is a picture by Diane Arbus of two twins in New York. Seriously, look her up- it's on eof her most famous.
  • KR
    articles such as this, so poorly researched, do not deserve to be on the internet. its good to see many people are wise enough, but sadly, when people have the power to spread word world-wide, there should be an implied responsibility to either be factual, or give a disclaimer that it is nothing but fictional.
    for anyone who thinks i'm being a killjoy, isn't it even remotely disturbing to you that as much knowledge as we have discovered collectively as a civilisation, we are still subjected to dealing with morons on a daily basis?
  • daryn
    The story is totally fake. Nat geo had a show about it. They discovered the twins were resulting from using the same genetic pool generation after generation. The town was formed using 2 separate families so a large majority of them are directly related....

    I forget the term, but basically they were reusing the same DNA over and over again without any other DNA contribution. They were marrying locals over and over again....

    It was all evident once they realized that the twin births were occurring way before Joseph got there at all....
  • jamie
    my odessa and the faith of those whom fought for our beloved FatherLand protect and hide Mengele from his preditors and destroyers of man
  • kmac
    None of this is true, of course.
    The twins pictured were subjects of photographer Diane Arbus (they appeared on the cover of her Aperture Monogram book).
    And the story about the town in Brazil was debunked by several sources.
  • hannah
    how could he me famous? if he even let slip that he had the secret to twins (which he didn't, he could only increase the chances....which is kind of cool though you have to admit), the important people in charge of finding these war criminals would be like, "wait a second... wasn't there a man VERY SIMILAR LOOKING to this guy in Germany doing weird shit to twins? oh crap it's him, get him"

    and obviously he would not want that lol. but this is insane, makes me sick just thinking about it. these men who can do this with no remorse.....crazy
  • biz
    The Mengele's case may be well known, since it is advertised all around for more than half of the century. But how many Mengele's are operating today in medical institutions around the world?
  • Luisa
    EXCUSE ME.
    I'm Brazilian, I live in Rio Grande do Sul (the same state as Cândido Godói city) and the information about this city is just plain wrong. I'm sorry, but a mere look at Wikipedia would have shown those mistakes.


    First of all, Southern Brazil has a very high level of German immigration, the second highest (the highest was Italian), and from 1824 to 1929 the counry received nearly 200,000 German immigrants, think about their descendants and communities for just a second (it's said that they were 20% of the population in the southern states, Santa Catarina an Rio Grande do Sul).
    As you learn in any biology lesson, the twin predisposing factors are also genetically determined, so - as most of those cities still manage to live regular urban lives as far away from the city as possible, many of them still speaking German dialects to the present day - it's not hard to see why so many German twins just so "happen to appear in a random city". But it's a lot more fun just say A NAZI did it, right? No other cities show that kind of data (the cities used to be much more closed communities). The Video barely mentioned Brazil! Use your brains people, if Josef Mengele REALLY had the recipe to twins, wouldn't he be a billionaire by now?

    I didn't make any of the dada up, NONE of it. Here are the links, and, as I said you could find, Wikipedia.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A2ndido_God%C3%B3i#Twinning_rate > Twinning Rate in Cândido Godói, and, oh look, there's a special part about the Theories.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Brazil#Immigration > about Immigration to Brazil in general.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin > twins
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Brazilian > extra-reading about the German communities in Brazil, which I've mentioned, such as the langugage factor, which for me are just common sense.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_German > article about German dialects in Brazil
  • victoria
    btw wikapidia is the worst site ever to look up. just because it has to be checked before posted, doesnt mean its right. like, for example, when i was resuching someone, i looked on wikapidia on two differant sites for the same question (what year was he born?) and it came up with two completely different answers. so wikapidia is really just based on opinion.
  • me
    wiki articles list the sources that were referenced.

    if an article does not have any reference, you probable should take that into consideration and move on.


    relying entirely on one source is stupid.

    many sources/books/journals//etc present conflicting evidence..the point is always to cross reference
    in fact the one definition of "interpretation" is negotiating a text through the historical,social and economic context in which it was created.

    yes, wiki assumes that people reading their site or using it are of average intelligence. that they expect people checking their site are smarter than house plants and can judge/cross references sources. etc...does not make wiki stupid or bad.


    the thing about dates you mentioned--happens in academic texts as well. it happens in journals, articles that are revised, second edition books w/ new intros/
    for example---WW1 hsitory---Giess vs. Fischer= work together but do not agree on same dates regarding German-Austro policy
    you have no point.

    "so wikapidia is really just based on opinion."
    hahahahaaaa
    "there are no facts only interpretations"
    - Nietzsche

    and your opinion is very sophomore
  • zehg
    Wikipedia is a good resource to start at but not always the most reliable. People can alter it whenever they want to. Although this will be revised, those who catch the alteration before the revise will get false information. To be honest, I never use the information set on wikipedia, I only use wikipedia to find sources of sites quickly
  • Dobs
    Wikipedia is a brilliant resource used by millions all over the world. Wikipedia in your case was probably right, it's researched, re researched, and republished over and over again, ensuring the most correct information possible.

    unfortunately for your spelling Wiki didn't catch it in time.
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