Josef Mengele and His Crimes

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer relates Josef Mengele's crimes via a systematic analysis. The writer first presents a short biographical sketch and then follows with a brief analysis of the purposes of medical experimentation conducted by Mengele and a brief analysis of the types of experiments he conducted. The writer then provides a synopsis of his justification as it is understood by researchers, and finally a short sketch of the aftermath of his work. The writer maintains that Mengele took full advantage of the ability to have free reign to play God with the lives of those who had no protection from him in an attempt to bolster his eugenic ideology. The writer conludes that though Mengele escaped justice and lived out the reminder of his life in relative peace, the history he left behind is a constant reminder of the unsettling behavior of which people are capable.

Outline:
Introduction
The Perpetrator: Mengele
The Purpose of the Experiments
The Types of Experiments
Justification
The Aftermath
Conclusion

From the Paper:

" Eugenics having been fully entrenched in Mengele's belief system drove the majority of his experimentations. The overall goals of Nazi experimentation can be classified into 5 groups (see below under types of experiments) and though Mengele participated in experimentation that could be classified among all 5 his love and the work he most often involved himself in was the experimentation involved in eugenics, creating a superior race and rapidly. It was for this reason that he was particularly interested in genetic malformations, as studying them might explain how to avoid them and in twin studies because his goal was to find the secrete genetic trigger that caused multiple gestation and recreate it to increase the population of a superior race."

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