Josef Mengele
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| Josef Mengle The Nazi Angel of Death | |
This man conducted so-called "medical experimentation", "anthropological study", and "heredity research" on concentration camp inmates with the help of various medical professionals among the prisoner population by subjecting them to extremes of temperature, chemical injections, unnecessary surgery, procedures of dubious medical ethics, and outright murder and maiming without regard to that pain and suffering they were forced to endure.
He was particularly interested in twins; and to be under his "protection" was in and of itself an abomination in the name of proving "nature over nurture". He was known for bringing candy and such to the children, and speaking sweetly to them all the while sending great numbers of them to the crematorium as corpses a short while later.
Of course there was the Nazi eugenics program providing the adequate fodder in the form of victims placed at his disposal. This was all done under the auspices of National Socialist racial theory to which he subscribed. He would meet the trains from which the prisoners would disembark and direct them to his area where they may have felt safe ... for a short while.
The root of that sociopsychopathy of it all lay in that perversion of the Nazi ideology touting superiority to all others in conjunction with Mengle's total lack of remorse for his wartime activities claiming he had never harmed anybody.
The world was relieved of this charlatan scourge of humanity on February 7, 1979 when he suffered a (second) stroke while swimming at Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil and drowned.
I had just returned from a Med cruise and was discharged from the Navy a scant four months later. All of this history regarding Mengle was known to me except his death for years afterward.