No one has been more reviled that Dr. Josef Mengele for the monstrous experiments he supposedly performed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, especially on Jews.
The simple fact which I challenge anyone to contest is that there is not a shred of documentary evidence that he ever did anything atrocious. Where are the records of those “fiendish” experiments or procedures? There are none. The “overwhelming evidence” consists entirely of testimony of almost obvious liars such as Eva Kor and Irene Zisblatt.
Mengele was a perfectly decent, even heroic doctor whose major shoirt coming was his choice of a family name. The name “Mengele” already suggests to the brain-dead masses that he must have been evil. He was rather handsome, well mannered, and charming but married and faithful which suggests that his accusers, all of whom seem to be Jewish women, were driven by frustrated sexual ambitions more than anything else just as Abigail Williams was in the “The Crucible.” John Proctor, the hero of that excellent play by Arthur Miller about the madness of the Salem witch trials, was a fictional version of Josef Mengele except that Mengele escaped the hangmen.
Mengele epitomized the problem all doctors face the world over from the beginnings of history:—their efforts to help people are sometimes grossly condemned even when they save people's lives. One proof of this simple fact are the almost staggering medical insurance fees doctors must pay just to stay in business in the USA. The blood samples Mengele probably did take from inmates would have been standard, accepted medical procedures to test for such things as the Felix-Weil reaction to determine if a person had typhus versus typhoid fever. No doubt for this author at least, Mengele kept countless Jews alive as he himself insisted to a friend—and murdered no one.
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