One of the main Gestapo torturers Dr. Josef Mengele, who became the personification of the horrors of the Third Reich, had a long and quite comfortable life. Born in tpd year, Mengele died in 1979 and just because while swimming in the ocean, he suffered a stroke. And no 40 thousand human lives, which he burned in the ovens of crematoria, was tortured to death on the operating table, poisoned poisons, not disturbed his serene soul. Maybe Mengele and was not a man?

While still a boy, Joseph was sure that someday his name in Golden letters will enter into the history of science. He came of it rapidly wealthy family, as well as was the eldest son of the factory owner, his father thought that he will give him his profitable business. Josef showed character. He went to study at the faculty of philosophy of the University of Munich. Then to power just came Hitler. Mengele was fascinated by the questions rasalo-GII. Ph.D. in philosophy, he continued his studies at the medical faculty in Frankfurt-on-main. Managed to finish my degree and to defend himself, even briefly worked on then the light of Othmar von Pursuer. And then the war began. The ideas of Nazism with battle fought their way into the world, and Joseph could not stay away.

To survive, to kill

In 1938 he joined the Nazi party and the SS. Then began a military biography of Dr. Joseph, whose relatives were called affectionate diminutive name BEP-PE (abbreviated from the Italian Giuseppe). He served as a doctor in a tank division "Viking", behaved heroically and personally pulled from a burning tank two comrades. After treatment in the hospital he was retired. Two years spent on the Eastern front, he wanted one thing: to return to the interrupted work, to their experiments. To test tubes, scalpels, scissors, clamps and experimental material - rabbits and rats. A new order was somewhat strange: he was sent for medical work in concentration camp Auschwitz. Mengele was confused: what genetics is to medical care for prisoners? But a senior fellow, research Manager of the Institute, where worked before the war doctor, is reassured in the camp he will be provided with excellent working conditions. As before, it will work in their native Institute. But why not in the Institute, and in the camp? The answer was simple: there's a huge amount of consumables...

Incorruptible science

The first independent work of Josef was connected with the definition of racial type in structure of the lower jaw of a person. The theme for Germany the mid 30-ies popular and relevant. Then the whole team of scientists stirred the works of the predecessors, dedicated to the degeneration of mankind, for example, actively studied the books of Russian doctors Ivan Sikorsky and invented devices to identify racial traits. So there was a simple and convenient "plastimyr"with the appearance of a railway line with a moving scale for measuring the skulls. Devices, unfortunately, was only the results of measurements. Under the results had to sum up the theory.

The work of a young Mengele was allowed by the smallest measuring costs more accurately to determine, what race is measured - that is, Aryan he or subhuman.

Once in the camp, clean and extremely sensitive to inadequate sanitation doctor was unpleasantly surprised: in the barracks was observed overcrowding, dirt, prisoners did not observe elementary rules of hygiene. No wonder: in General wards Mengele was Gypsies, driven to Auschwitz from Slavic countries.

When Mengele took purpose, in Auschwitz began the spread of typhus. The first decision Mengele was disgustingly cruel, but in the spirit of wartime: to stop the epidemic of patients infected and destroyed. To prevent such situations in the future Mengele ordered to tighten sorting newcomers. According to the recollections of former prisoners of Auschwitz, in the sort he was personally involved, separating the sick, the weak and the old from the young and healthy individuals, which could then be used as Guinea.

For the first time in my life Mengele was in a situation where he could carry out any experiments on humans. In the camp it was called the Angel of death, or just - Doctor Death.

Between the scientific institutes of Germany, pharmaceutical companies and death camps existed agreements on a number of the necessary research. Dr. Mengele worked for a program of Othmar von Vershuere for the study of twins (with this program, Pursuer has gained worldwide fame and recognition) and was included in the ambitious project of Nobel laureate Professor Adolf Butenandt.

For the program for the study of twins Mengele carried out many experiments to find themselves in the camp twins, mostly with children. These children he measured, weighed, were subjected to numerous tests. For experiments children usually divided: one twin was exposed to drugs or surgical intervention, the other was considered as a control instance. Sometimes it have been processed, the two children: doctor spent the injection of small amounts of blood from twin to twin and thoroughly log experiment. Special attention was paid to the issue of changing the color of the iris of the eye. Dr. influenced the iris by the injection of dye formulations in order to make brown eyes Roma in sky-blue eyes of the Aryans. The result was zero. Infusions of blood and full transfusion is also no plausible results were not given: non-Aryans and remained a non-Aryans. He spent and "fusion" twins (operation, opposite the separation of Siamese twins), and partial fusion of alien skin or tissues, but also failed. With its experimental Mengele was soft and gentle, but murder them and studied without pity and anesthesia. Consumables abated, but always replenished with the arrival of a new tier.

There were urgent military orders that Mengele had worked together with other doctors. The special interest of the leadership of the Reich caused increase in survival of German pilots and sailors under conditions of hypothermia. To do this, "consumables" (young men) were subjected to hypothermia, registering a moment, close to clinical death, and then tried to revive. To revitalize IP-used laboratory women: they were stoned half dead men, to restore to them the circulation and cause awake to life sexual attraction. The result has been developed a method of salvation, which is used today. However, women do not need.

It was worse with other experiments related to the decline or increase in pressure of up invalid. Experimental hundred percent died. The only conclusion was made: when flying at high altitudes cockpit must be sealed. To come to this conclusion, the doctors had months to see how brains "consumables", filling the glass of the pressure chamber.

Preparations of organs and blood "consumables" Mengele was sent to the customers, there also was a skin test, and skeletons and skulls were delivered to the receipt for museums Reich. These heads and skeletons for museums became the main reason penalty Director of "Annenerbe" Wolfram von Sivers.
Various "experiments" Dr. Mengele almost always ended with the death of its participants
And so that was the doctor, living in Latin America, and how this respectable gentleman something like "angel of death"?

The flight across the ocean

After the liberation the Russian Poland Mengele for a short time (was already the spring of 1945) was in the camp Ravensbruck. There he heard the news of the capitulation of the Reich. The doctor changed his uniform CC on the uniform of an officer of the Wehrmacht and surrendered to the allies. He was not arrested because he had not been able to establish the identity.

He lived a few years in Bavaria, trying not to be seen, and then, when it was announced the decision of the Nuremberg Tribunal, using the "rat trails"left dangerous Europe to Latin America. Hunters Nazis so before him and never got.

He has held several Latin American countries and died a normal death of an elderly man: drowned while unexpected stroke on the Brazilian beach. It happened in 1979.

The family knew where hides old doctor who supported him financially and has not issued to the massacre. But the son Mengele, who grew up without a father, a middle-aged man, incredibly ashamed of what became famous Josef Mengele. He even visited Israel and apologized for his father to the victims of the Holocaust. The doctor wished only one thing: after the war, he was denied the opportunity to pursue science and has lived someone else's life.