17 January 1945 | SS physician Josef Mengele liquidated his laboratory at the BIIf section of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. During the evacuation he took with him the entire documentation of his experiments made on prisoners: twins, dwarfs, and people with disabilities. 
In Auschwitz Mengele carried out anthropometric, serological & morphological studies of the twins. He deliberately infected some children with typhus. The final phase of his experiments included killing of the twins & conducting a comparative analysis or particular organs.
Mengele’s other areas of interest 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.
Josef Mengele after the war fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life. He drowned in 1979 after suffering a stroke while swimming off the coast of Bertioga, Brazil. His remains were disinterred & positively identified by forensic examination in 1985.
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.
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Our lesson takes a closer look at the story of different experiments conducted at Auschwitz, including mass sterilization of men and women, heredity research by Dr. Josef Mengele, and the effects of the starvation disease, and the testing of new drugs: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_medycyna_…
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