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Jews and Gypsies were mainly the people he experimented on. Specifics include twins, dwarfs, giants, and anyone with unusual features.

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What was Dr Josef Menegele's job at Auschwitz?

Mengele performed medical experiments on the inmates. This included atrocities such as sterilization and unnecessary surgery (even sewing twins together to make them "conjoined"). Perhaps most famous is his experiments on twins. He believed that he had a rare opportunity to make sure a set of twins would die at the same time, and he would perform autopsies. He was known as the Angel of Death.


How old was Josef Mengele when he died?

Josef Mengele was 67 when he died in Brazil on February 8, 1979.


How did Josef Mengele get the twins?

Josef Mengele got the twins at Auschwitz when they first arrived and are unloaded from the train platform, he would do the selections and if he found a pair of twins he would take them from their family's and treat them with care until he killed them and then did his dissection of them.


What was one experiment of Dr Joseph Mengele?

Dr Mengele's 'experiments' were gruesome and should not be used because many people use this site. Go to Google and type in Dr Mengele's experiments but be warned these experiments are sick and are not for the faint hearted. ** He would inject childrens eyes with dye and bleach trying to make their eyes change color. He sewed [seperate] twins together to make a conjoined twin. he did many many horrible things.


What were Josef Mengele's special medical interests during the holocaust?

Ostensibly Mengele was originally challenged with disease-research, but he became obsessed with twins. He believed that if he could identify what causes twins, he would be able to create future stormtroopers for Germany more efficiently, if every pregnancy produced two babies and not one, there would be double the workforce. Some twins survived his research, about 100, but most died, at least 400 and possibly upto 1000, besides the adult population also that Mengele was responsible for the deaths of. Mengele and others were fond of injecting or contaminating subjects with life-threatening or serious diseases and studying the effects, but largely he was obsessed with twins. After the war he was believed to have moved to a particular area of South America because there was an abnormal percentage of twins in that village and it was believed that Mengele had moved to that village for that reason.

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What would josef mengele do if twins were just born?

There are no reports of Mengele experimenting on newborn twins.


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What was Dr Josef Menegele's job at Auschwitz?

Mengele performed medical experiments on the inmates. This included atrocities such as sterilization and unnecessary surgery (even sewing twins together to make them "conjoined"). Perhaps most famous is his experiments on twins. He believed that he had a rare opportunity to make sure a set of twins would die at the same time, and he would perform autopsies. He was known as the Angel of Death.


How old was Josef Mengele when he died?

Josef Mengele was 67 when he died in Brazil on February 8, 1979.


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How did Josef Mengele get the twins?

Josef Mengele got the twins at Auschwitz when they first arrived and are unloaded from the train platform, he would do the selections and if he found a pair of twins he would take them from their family's and treat them with care until he killed them and then did his dissection of them.


What was Josef Mengele known for?

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