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Mengele's fascination with twins, and especially with experimentation on twins in order to find a way in which he could potentially double the size of the German race, led him to experiment on everything from eyesight, to pain tolerance, to tuberculosis. From witness accounts, Mengele would even inject the children with diseases, which often provoked vomiting and diarrhea, or would subject them to cuts while strapped to a table.
Because of his firsthand experimentation and selection of many prisoners, Mengele is responsible for countless numbers of deaths. Furthermore, due to his orders, others were either tortured, maimed, or killed at the man's behest, and thus, he is also responsible of inflicting pain and death indirectly. Because of this complicity, Mengele emigrated to Argentina post-war and spent the next few decades of his life running from country to escape the International Military Tribunal that wanted him for crimes against humanity. Though little evidence is known of Mengele's whereabouts during this period, it is significant to note that, according to some reports, Mengele not only lived comfortably during these last decades, but also continued his experiments. For instance, in a recent newspaper article, a journalist claims, "The Nazi doctor Josef Mengele is responsible for the astonishing number of twins in a small Brazilian town," and attributed this finding to research done by an Argentine historian. The article describes Mengele's whereabouts, as well as his roles in promoting the small twin community...
poison used in the gas chambers, to the thousands of empty suitcases, clearly marked with names, which Nazi personnel emptied and appropriated after their owners were gassed to death. The Nazis not only took the lives of millions of Jews, they took everything that was a reminder of their lives. The world stood by while this occurred, and did nothing. Why did the world stand by and allow millions of
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