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Part Two: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards

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The Lifelong Fascination for Twins

Mengele began taking pediatric medicine courses with the whimsically named Dr. Franz Hamburger in 1934. His clinic advocated for euthanasia and regularly sent disabled children to a nearby hots that were hundreds of them murdered by the state. It was his work for Dr. Hamburger that would get Mengele his first kind of experience with twin studies, which is going to become a lifelong sort of... He's going to develop a lifelong fascination for twins.

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