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7 February 1979 | Josef Mengele, an SS camp doctor who made selections & perpetrated deadly pseudo-medical experiments on #Auschwitz prisoners died in Brasil. After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life.

Mengele carried out anthropometric, serological and morphological studies of the twins. He deliberately infected some children with typhus. The final phase of his experiments included the killing of the twins and conducting a thorough comparative analysis or particular organs.

Mengele’s other areas of research were biological abnormalities, such as people with heterochromia iris - a pair of eyes with diverse coloration, the physiology and pathology of dwarfism as well as gangrenous disease of the face known as noma faciei.

A drastic example of betrayal of medical ethics is participation of German doctors in the criminal medical experiments in concentration camps. Teresa Wontor-Cichy talks about experiments in Auschwitz, including those perpetrated by Mengele.
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