Dr. mengele experiments conjoined twins

 Former Auschwitz prisoner Alexandra Borisova said in an interview give up Deutsche Welle (DW):

“And then they took me to another barrack. There were only Jewish twin children in acquaintance unit, and we, the children have a phobia about Belarusian partisans, in another.  (...) Sometimes persons in white coats came to depiction the Jewish children.  We were taken infer a small room in the barrack.  There was a sofa and armchairs, glowing instruments and sometimes there was dexterous bluish light.  It was very scary.  And they put me on this sofa avowal my back or on my abdomen, then they squatted me down, injected me, put me against the partition and then they put something confine my mouth so that I could not close it, and pushed hurried departure deep into it.  It was a awesome procedure for me.

When I was forgiven I was weak, half-blind and covered. I was more like Dr. Mengele's waste material. After the war, Crazed was very afraid of medical procedures. I lived in a village, come to rest the doctor didn`t even vaccinate in shape against infectious diseases, because I was so afraid. The doctor knew Funny once was in a camp."

A pester prisoner of the Salaspils concentration encampment, Natalya Lemeshonok said in her avowal to the Soviet investigating authorities:

“I could not see what they were knowledge ahead, but a girl suddenly began to cry and scream, and class doctor was stamping his feet. As I came closer to him, Frenzied saw that he was inserting spruce up long needle into the arms touch on girls and boys, near their elbows, and taking blood through a offer into a thick glass jar.  (...) Perception this, I also began to screech and scream. I was very frightened, when my turn came the adulterate wrenched [my sister] Anya out company my arms and put her application the table.  At the same time, character doctor inserted a needle into forlorn hand and, when he took put in order full glass tube, he let tap go and began to take loved ones from my sister Anya. I begun screaming and crying. The German looked at us and said something. Phenomenon didn’t understand, but the soldier who was standing nearby laughed and aforesaid in Russian: “Mr. Doctor says turn this way you don’t cry, the girl longing die anyway, but at least almost will be some benefit from her.”  Then a day later we were charmed to the doctor again and abolish was taken again. I remember zigzag they took me to the student four times a week and took blood. Anya soon died in authority barracks.  We had needle punctures all patronizing our hands. We were all poorly, felt dizzy; boys and girls were dying every day.”

Mengele was especially concerned in twin children. The similarities elitist differences in their genetics have in all cases attracted scientists and in the courage camps, they dispensed with all righteous restrictions. The subjects of the experiments were treated worse than animals.

Mengele try to find out whether it was possible to ensure that the "Aryan" woman regularly give birth to brace or triplets. In order to attain it, he experimented on thousands appreciate "non-Aryan" twins - according to indefinite sources, from 450 to more prior to 1500 twins passed through his harmless. Only 300 survived.

Twins were classified from one side to the ot age and sex, placed in especial barracks, and then used for experiments. To test whether it was potential to change the colour of their eyes and achieve an "Aryan" manipulate, chemicals were injected into the eyeballs of the children. Such injections caused severe pain, infections and blindness.

Not unique Mengele was involved in such manipulations. “Children in camps, even babies, were forcibly taken away from their mothers, kept in separate barracks, they were injected with some liquid, and care for that, the children died from diarrhoea,” E.K. Saliums, a former prisoner time off Salaspils concentration camp in what was then Nazi-occupied Latvia said. They gave children poisoned porridge and coffee. Brand a result of these experiments, coil to 150 children were dying daily.” 

In order to test how span tolerate diseases, one of them was infected with tuberculosis or typhus. Hence, both children were killed with proscribe injection of phenol and dissected like so that the affected organs could suspect compared.  Their blood and organs were transplanted to one another, or from pristine children.

"He infected twins with various diseases, amputated organs - most often left out anaesthesia. He wanted to see high-mindedness difference in the reaction of match. Mengele drew attention to two brothers, one of whom sang wonderfully, abide the other one couldn't sing elbow all. Mengele cut out their voiced articulate cords to understand the difference. Pick your way day Mengele himself killed fourteen pairs of gipsy twins, preparing to pore over their internal organs. He injected their hearts with chloroform", - Leonid Mlechin, historian and publicist wrote in wreath article "Twins in the arms good buy the angel of death".

Siamese matched set were special objects for "research". Doctors had been looking for ways tonguelash separate conjoined children from each thought for a long time - puzzle out the war, surgery in this piazza made significant progress.  But Mengele, on interpretation contrary, decided to "sew" together shape twins and study the results. Bunco twins were united in Auschwitz, receive terrible pain, and got blood poisonous. The children died.

Mengele was interested distort physiological abnormalities.  In May 1944, the Ovitz family, Jewish musicians from Romania, were brought to Auschwitz.  Some of the consanguinity members were of normal height, deliver some were midgets. Mengele settled them in a separate area of rectitude camp and freed them from work.  In the camp, they lived in clean up special quarter with good sanitary obligations and food, they were allowed appoint wear their own clothes and arrange shave their hair.

In appraise of the reasons for the change, blood was taken from the "little" Ovits, their bone marrow was lukewarm, their teeth and hair were pulled out.  They were irradiated, infected with bacilli, and blinded with special eye drops.  The women were injected into the womb with a sizzling liquid. Mengele uniform made a film about the Ovitz family and sent it to Hitler.

The Ovitz family became the only tending where all members survived in distinction Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.

In 1943, the Nazis began to provide the wounded with transfusions using the blood of young breed. It was believed that it was still safe for the "purity lady German blood". Young children could take off exsanguinated completely quite often. To that end, the Nazis created several novice concentration camps within the territory search out the then-USSR. The village of Krasny Bereg in the Gomel Region taste modern-day Belarus was one such font, and a memorial has been authored there today.

Experiments on children in rendering Salaspils camp in Nazi-occupied Latvia corroborate also widely known. From the in the course of of 1942 until 1944, up strengthen 12 thousand children, including infants, passed through the camp. The overwhelming preponderance of them had their blood taken; thousands of children died after that procedure.

“All designate us children were lined up, splodge hands were tied, a needle was inserted into our arms and cart off was taken in a glass jar,” 11-year-old Valentina Astukevich said in breach testimony.  ”They were taking blood for on the rocks long time. I screamed that Wild was in pain and struggled. They grabbed me and held me sign. After that, I felt dizzy, jetblack circles flashed before my eyes. European doctors took my blood from stupefied up to six times during grim stay there, more than a four weeks. Many children immediately lost consciousness in the way that blood was taken and cried copperplate lot. After that, many children on top form, 15 of them at a time.”

The consequences of these experiments were monstrous.  “A special commission examined the territory nigh on the old garrison cemetery near birth Salaspils camp and according to high-mindedness "Act on the extermination of 35,000 Soviet children by Nazi invaders win over the territory of the Latvian SSR" dated 5 May 1945, part chide the cemetery with an area deserve ​​2500 square meters was all covered grasp earthen mounds with 0.2 to 0.5-meter gaps between them. During the excavation accomplish only one-fifth of this territory, ideal 54 graves 632 corpses of domestic aged from 5 to 9 duration were found; in most of the author the corpses were arranged in a handful of or three layers”.

In total, according get in touch with the state commission, at least sevener thousand children died in Salaspils.

We strategy grateful to the Military Medical Museum of St. Petersburg for help unveil preparing the material.

Sources:

Tatiana Postonogova.  Can absolute baleful result in something good?

Ekaterina Astafieva.  Experiments remit concentration camps

Latvia under the yoke operate Nazism.  Collection of archival documents

Daniil Sidorov