Nazi human experimentation: Difference between revisions

Headed by Josef Mengele from 1943-44,<ref name=":4">[http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/lhs/science/mos/twins/mengele.html Josef Mengele and Experimentation on Human Twins at Auschwitz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414074936/http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/lhs/science/mos/twins/mengele.html|date=14 April 2015}}, ''Children of the Flames; Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz'', Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel, and ''Mengele: the Complete Story'' by Gerald Posner and John Ware.</ref> the twin experiments were performed to prove how "superior" phenotypes were determined by genetics over the environment{{sfn|Steinbacher|2005|p=114}} and help Germans reproduce more twins.{{sfn|Lifton|1986|pp=358–359}} The experiments included amputating healthy limbs, deliberately infecting them with diseases such as typhus, blood tranfusionstransfusions from one twin to other,{{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986a|p=37}} and sewing twins together to create conjoined twins.{{sfn|Mozes-Kor|1992|p=57}}{{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986a|p=37}} [[Eva Mozes Kor|Eva-Mozes Kor]], a survivor, also claimed that Mengele cross-transfused the blood of opposite sex twins to change their respective sexes, experimented on twins' genitals and attempted to attach the urinary tract of a 7 year old girl to her own colon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mozes-Kor |first=Eva |date=2011 |title=The Mengele Twins and Human Experimentation: A Personal Account |url=https://www.chcuk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2011-03-08_The-Mengele-Twins-and-Human-Experimentation.pdf |url-status=live |website=}}</ref> Most twins died during these procedures {{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986a|p=37}} and if one survived, they would be killed and dissected for comparative post-mortem reports.{{sfn|Lifton|1986|pp=347, 353}}{{sfn|Lifton|1986|p=351}}