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Part Four: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards

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The Nazi Establishment's War on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute planned to create a department of embryology and a vast collection of human samples in embryos, including fetuses and stillborn infants removed at the camp and sent to his institute. A lot of the body parts that are taken out are in use up until like the 80s, 90. There was a story in 2014 on what used because it's like a college campus and what used to be the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. The building is still in use, right? They don't call it that anymore. Did they get rid of their jar room? Probably. That, I mean, not as quickly as you'd expect.

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