His office and
examining room was pristine, completely up to date and modernized with marble
examining tables just like what would have been at the best medical schools of
the time. The only thing out of place were the human eyeballs pinned to the
walls like retired butterflies. One of the surviving twins recalled seeing them
on his wall after a day of random injections.
Doctor Josef
Mengele was a German doctor in charge at the concentration camps during World
War II. His main job was deciding who was fit for work and who was headed
straight to the gas chambers. Even
though there were other physicians that also decided the fate of the Jews that
were marched through the platform, Doctor Mengele seemed to be at every
shipment. He was looking for twins, and couldn’t risk having another doctor
send them off to the gas chambers. He would holler out “Twins, come forward!”
If they didn’t come forward on their own he would find them and drag them away
from their mothers, never to be reunited. His experimentation methods were
wildly inhumane. He believed that they weren’t going to be alive for very much
longer anyway, so why not try things out that would otherwise be unethical. His
search for an Aryan super race led him on a horrific path of human destruction.
All of his experiments were top secret, the twins never understood what he was
trying to study, and right before the camps were taken over most of the
documents were destroyed. It seemed like he just wanted to see what would
happen with various injections. He would inject one twin, observe the
differences, and when the injected twin died he would kill the other twin and
compare their bodies.
