Today is Memorial Day. Considerations:
1) is sacrosanct that there is at least one day during the canon, a page dedicated to all the heartbreaking story of how the world of genocide in the Nazi era. Even today, the neo-20s of the XXI century, there are trends homophobic, xenophobic, and anything else yet. Only memory can prevent that such a tragedy happen again. Around me I still see racism, insults, hatred towards other people, aggression towards gays, towards the handicapped, against Muslims, to Christians. I thought that the human mind was more acute ...
2) even if it is sacrosanct Memorial Day, I think it is absurd that we should devote their thoughts this tragedy only one day a year. To prevent a recurrence, we should be surrounded by memories every single day. Perhaps in this way could we have a chance of living more civilized, more clean.
3) One thing to spend a few attention is the page of experiments conducted by the distinguished Dr. Mengele in the Nazi death camps.
What is eugenics? Eu = good, genos = race. Eugenics is a movement guided by the scientific improvement, the improvement of the human race.
In Auschwitz, Dr. Josef Mengele takes care of this, experiments on the human race. The 21 months he spent in Auschwitz were an opportunity for him unique, a key source of opportunities to conduct their own research, especially focusing on the twins. It seems absurd, but many discovered in the field of physiology, embryology, neurophysiology, are due to those experiments, that man, those guinea pigs. It is absurd that I, in the 20s of the XXI century, notions of human physiology studies arising from the horrors committed by Mengele in the Nazi extermination camp in the 40s of the twentieth century. The human mind is a marvel, a parallel world, but it is also evil .. You never know what might emerge from its mysterious depths. Need to be afraid.
"The entrance to Auschwitz Mengele had lived as a unique and unrepeatable could search on any subject interested him, he could analyze, operate, dissect and kill them without being exposed to any liability. It is for this reason that Mengele, unlike other SS doctors, he devoted all his energies to research and his studies, because they knew that nowhere in the world it was possible to carry out his research in a way just like that. The goal of Mengele, the second most scholars, was to succeed in their experiments with the concentration camp to make those findings (especially regarding the transmission of character and context of eugenics) as to consecrate the history forever. During the period he spent at Auschwitz, Mengele exploited all the time at his disposal: he organized a team composed mainly of doctors and nurses, in particular an anthropologist (Teresa W.) and a pathologist (Nyiszli), all recruited from within the same field and then in turn prisoners. The team composed of security and enjoyed the mere fact of this role were saved from almost certain death.
His studies in the field are essentially two aspects: the biological foundation of the social environment, "the transmission of characters" and "racial types" and Finally, "people with evidence of abnormality (deformity, abnormal morphological development)." These studies were conducted almost exclusively on the twins, who represented his main obsession. Besides these, he also studied Gypsies and also showed some interest for dwarfs and Jews, Mengele believed that human forms of "abnormal". Among his research in the field, some were also dedicated to noma. Among the studies of Mengele less scientific in nature and purely Nazi remember those related to the eyes, of which Mengele follow two strands, one concerning the ' heterochromia and the other the possibility of being able to change eye color. After death, the cadavers were subjected to autopsy and often parts of bodies, or whole fetuses preserved with formalin were sent outside the camp to carry out on them more and more thorough examination. "
" Among the research conducted by Mengele in the field, those to which he devoted more energy and attention (already practiced one year before the Auschwitz) were reserved for the twins. In particular, concentrated his attention on the Mengele twins monozygotic . The same Mengele went to the wharf, where trains arrive prisoners, to see the twins as soon as he came down. The groups of twins, included individuals of different ages, from children to seniors, including senior was chosen, which assumed the function of Zwillingsvater (Capogemelli or father of the twins), to further distinguish them from other prisoners, were tattooed with also the number two letters ZW (ie Zwillinge). Of his research in KZ (Konzentrationslager, concentration camp) Mengele always kept informed of his former university professor, Von Verschuer also sent to the Institute of Racial Biology Berlin, specimens and reports. Mengele twins analyzed together, which applied in research of comparable type. In his analysis of identical twins, Mengele measurements, photographs, blood samples are often at each visit. Some twins surviving the other hand, argue that the search for Mengele also applies to other practices: use of chemicals to analyze the reaction of the skin, or pressure on the body to measure resistance or injections. On the relation between Mengele and the twins there are conflicting testimonies. An assistant of the same Mengele, Dr.. Miklos Nyiszli testified that Mengele was the same to kill (told in a particular episode in which killed in one night, one after the other, 14 twins of Gypsy origin). As for the other prisoners, other than twins, there are some doubts: killed by shooting directly or through various injections of phenol. Others, like his assistant, Teresa W., said he had never heard about that Mengele twins who killed a student, and using the same, if such a thing had occurred to her would be impossible not to get to know . Objectively, beyond this, the twins led the field a better life than other prisoners (and this in virtue of being subjected to a search of that Mengele): in fact was granted to them to continue to wear clothing originating and not to shave their hair. The twins lived in a special block, near the barracks dedicated to research and separate from other prisoners, the working area less tiring (runner), had a diet more nutritious and enjoyed an almost complete protection: If stealing were not killed, they could turn freely in the camp and could not be beaten or harmed for any reason by prisoners and by the same SS. This special treatment allowed the majority of twins to survive for long periods and in most cases be able to reach until the liberation of the KZ to the same work of the Russians (even some years after entry). In fact, the chances of survival of the other prisoners than those of identical twins were almost non-existent, counting the fact that many prisoners were gassed just got off the train and not even a night spent in Auschwitz. "
