Auschwitz Death Camp

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Auschwitz Death Camp
-Joseph Mengele-
By cadet-Svendsen
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P R E S S U R E C H A M B E R S

• One of the many forms of torture Joseph
  Mengele used were pressure chambers. He would put
  people in pressure chambers and increase or
  decrease the pressure to observe how the human
  body reacts to massive altitude changes. Many
  people were killed during this experiment,
  those that didnt die were seriously injured.

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H Y P O T H E R M I A

• Another one of Mengelesso called
  experiments was to take men, women and children
  and put them in a tank of freezing water and
  watch them freeze to death. In order to observe
  how long it took the body to shut down in
  freezing water.

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A M P U T A T I O N S

• Not only did Mengele cut people apart in
  horrible ways, all his operations were
  performed without the use of anesthetics.

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T W I N S

• Mengele was fascinated by twins. Especially
  identical twins. Some of his most gruesome
  experiments were done on twins. There was one
  instance where he cut one side off each twin,
  then he sewed them together down the middle to
  create Siamese twins. The hands of one of the
  twins hands got infected and they died.

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S E A W A T E R

• Another experiment performed on Auschwitz
  prisoners was seawater. They would force
  prisoners to drink only sea water with no food.
  They were trying to find a way to make sea water
  drinkable. The prisoners became so dehydrated
  that they would lick the floors after they had
  been mopped, just to get a drop of fresh water.
  This caused enormous pain and great bodily harm.

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S U R V I V O R S

• There were few survivors from Auschwitz,
  but even fewer survived Mengeles operations.
  The few that did were severely maimed and
  traumatized. They also suffered from
  psychological damage.

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S C O R C H E D E A R T H

• After the Germans lost the war they went
  through their death camps and destroyed
  everything, or almost everything. They burnt
  the bodies and blew up the crematoriums. But
  despite their efforts to cover their tracks they
  left more than enough evidence to prove their
  guilt.