3 Josef Mengele Quotes on Ethics

Josef Mengele quotes on ethics

6. Mengele was known as a manic collector of things human, including dwarf corpses, gallstones, and eyes. His fascination with eyes led to the infamous experiments in which he injected various substances into the eyes of brown-eyed Jewish children in an attempt to make them Nordic (blue).

7. I have never accepted that Mengele believed he was doing serious medical work...He was exercising power. Major surgery was performed without anaesthetic. Once I witnessed a stomach operation - Mengele was removing pieces from the stomach, but without any anaesthesia. It was horrifying.

8. I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live...'