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327 - Josef Mengele: Nazi Angel of Death (Happy Holidays)

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Auschwitz Experiments

The biggest series of experiments in Auschwitz involved perfecting a method for reliable and efficient mass sterilization, which the Nazis planned to use on non-Aryans. These experiments were largely carried out by Professor Karl Kloburg, an expert on infertility who was able to devise a non-surgical method using x-rays that he estimated could sterilize up to a thousand women a day given the right staffing in equipment. Victims suffered paratinitis and hemorrhages from the reproductive tract, leading to fever and sepsis,. multiple organ failure, and death frequently followed.

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