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Part Three: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards

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Mengele's Experiments at Auschwitz

Mengele subjected pairs of twins and people with physical handicaps to specific medical examinations that could be carried out on the living organism. Although gynecology was not his specialty, Mengele conducted experiments on pregnant women. He had them infected with typhoid in order to determine whether or not the children would be born with the infection too. There are stories where he will carefully and in an excellent advanced medical fashion deliver a baby and then immediately send the mother and baby off to the gas chamber.

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