Twin Experiments

 Experiments with twin boys in concentration camps sought to show similarities and differences in the genetics and eugenics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be manipulated in unnatural ways. The leader of these experiments was Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on more than 1500 pairs of imprisoned twins, of which only about 200 survived.While attending the University of Munich (in the city that remained one of Adolf's central points Hitler during the Third Reich) to study philosophy and medicine with an emphasis on anthropology and paleontology, Mengele was swept up in Nazi hysteria and even said that "this simple political concept became a decisive factor in my life." Mengele's newfound admiration for the "simple political concept" led him to intersperse his medical studies with politics. He received his doctorate for the thesis "Racial Morphological Research on the Lower Jaw Section of Four Racial Groups," which suggested that a person's race could be identified by the shape of their jaw. The Nazi organization understood his studies as talented and Mengele was asked to be the chief physician and researcher at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland around May 1943.


At Auschwitz, he organized genetic experiments on twins, arranged by age and sex and locked in barracks between experiments, which ranged from injecting chemicals into the eyes to see if they could change colors to sewing twins together to try and create Siamese twins.


Experiments on Twins - Experiments of the Holocaust

Fuente: wikipedia.org

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