Hitler’s Physician Josef Mengele: The Top 9 Most Unsettling Facts About Him 

Josef Mengele’s experiments were conducted mainly on children

The majority of Mengele’s patients were young children. The kids Mengele chose for his experiments were housed in different camps from the other inmates and were given slightly better food and care. He even treated them with kindness and played nice just to trick them into trusting him but this was only hypocrisy because they were there as test subjects, not to have a happy childhood.

One of the most cruel experiments Josef Mengele conducted was the study of eye color by applying a material given to him by a colleague to the eyes of infants and young children. Of course, the final results weren’t pleasant at all because most of the newborns and young children suffered from bad swelling of the eyelids. Some of them went completely blind, while others died.

He used another man’s identity to escape Germany

Mengele was able to flee Germany following their defeat after WWII and relocate to South America. There, he got to know Wolfgang Gerhard, an Austrian who was a fervent admirer of the Nazi party. Mengele received his identity card from the doctor because they got along so well.

Mengele lived the rest of his life under the Austrian’s identity to stay hidden; upon his death in 1979, he was even buried beneath a gravestone with Gerhard’s name on it. Until 1985, these details were unknown to the public but were disclosed in an interview that Mengele’s son gave to the press.

The US Army had Josef Mengele in custody

One of the most unsettling facts about Josef Mengele is that right after Germany was defeated in WWII, Hitler committed suicide, and everything went berzerk, the U.S. army managed to capture him.

Unfortunately, because things were a bit chaotic during that time and they had no evidence of who he was or what he did, they released him. After that, the doctor was employed as a farm worker near Rosenheim, Bavaria, from the summer of 1945 to the spring of 1949 while using fake documents, until his rich relatives backed him in fleeing to South America.

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