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Part Four: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards

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Mengele's Struggles at Auschwitz

During his time at Auschwitz, Dr. Mengele cultivated a stable of gifted slave doctors to help him carry out research and prepare human body parts for transfer in Germany. The ultimate solution was basically to boil dead bodies until the meat could be removed by the casks bubbling over while they were still warm. What do you know about preparation of skeletons? There are a couple of ways to prepare them,. And they had to be stopped from starving when a living prisoner found them and mistook them for stew. At one point, Polish prisoners found them and cooked them so ghastly it's like nightmarish. It's very, very competitive. So if I have to do a little

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