Dr Mengele Experiment
Experiments on twins
Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the superiority of heredity over the environment in determining phenotypes and to find ways to increase German reproduction rates. The central leader of the experiments was Josef Mengele, who, from 1943 to 1944, performed experiments on nearly 1,500 sets of imprisoned twins at Auschwitz. About 200 people survived these studies.[14] The twins were arranged by age and sex and kept in barracks between experiments, which ranged from amputations, infecting them with various diseases, and injecting dyes into their eyes to change their color. He also attempted to create conjoined twins by sewing twins together, causing gangrene and, eventually, death.[15][16] Often, one twin would be forced to undergo experimentation, while the other was kept as a control. If one twin died from experimentation, the second twin would be brought in to be killed at the same time. Doctors would then look at the effects of experimentation and compare both bodies.[17] If the first twin survived, Mengele would dissect their bodies.[18]