
Part Two: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors
Behind the Bastards
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Von Breschure's Role in the Nazi State
In Nazi Germany, a doctor called Mengele was tasked with determining whether or not someone met the legal definition of a Jew under Nuremberg race laws. He spent hours looking at pictures of people's jaws from different angles to determine if they were actually Jewish. His judgments are often beneficial to the person being tried because he is weirdly obsessed with jaws.
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