42. Joseph Goebbels The Berlin premiere of the film, scheduled for December 4, 1930, promised to be "hot". German newspapers vied with each other to discuss the novel itself and the film made by the Americans based on it. The range of estimates was extremely wide. In some newspapers, both the novel and the film were poured over

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Josef Mengele was born in Bavaria in 1911. He studied philosophy at the University of Munich and medicine at the University of Frankfurt. In 1934 he became a member of the SA - a paramilitary unit of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), in 1938 he joined the SS.

Mengele worked at the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. The topic of his dissertation: "Morphological studies of the structure of the lower jaw of representatives of four races."

General sadist

During World War II, Mengele served as a military doctor in the SS Viking Division. In 1942, he received the Iron Cross for rescuing two tankmen from a burning tank. After being wounded, SS Hauptsturmführer (captain) Mengele was declared unfit for military service and in 1943 was appointed chief physician of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

With the arrival of Mengele, Auschwitz became a "major research center". The circle of interests of the doctor was wide. He began by "increasing the fertility of Aryan women." It is clear that non-Aryan women served as material for research. Then the fatherland set the exact opposite task: to find the cheapest and most effective methods of limiting the birth rate of "subhumans" - Jews, gypsies and Slavs.

Having crippled thousands of men and women, Mengele came to the conclusion: the most reliable way to avoid conception is castration. "Research" went on as usual. The Wehrmacht offered to find out everything about the effects of cold on the body of a soldier (hypothermia). The experimental technique was the most straightforward: a concentration camp prisoner was covered with ice, and "doctors" in SS uniform constantly measured his body temperature. When a test subject died, a new one was brought from the barracks. Conclusion: after cooling the body to a temperature below 30 degrees, it is most likely impossible to save a person. And the best means for warming is a hot bath and "the natural warmth of the female body."

By order of the Luftwaffe, a study was carried out on the effect of high altitude on the pilot's performance. A pressure chamber was built in Auschwitz. Thousands of prisoners took a terrible death: at ultra-low pressure, a person was simply torn apart. Conclusion: it is necessary to build aircraft with a pressurized cabin. But not a single such aircraft in Germany took off until the end of the war.

Josef Mengele, who was fascinated by racial theory in his youth, conducted experiments with eye color. He decided to prove that the brown eyes of the Jews could never become the blue eyes of a "true Aryan." He gave hundreds of Jews injections of blue dye, extremely painful and often leading to blindness. The conclusion is obvious: a Jew cannot be turned into an Aryan.

Tens of thousands of people became victims of Mengele's monstrous experiments. What are the studies of the effects of physical and mental exhaustion on the human body worth alone! And the "study" of three thousand infant twins, of which only 200 survived! The twins received blood transfusions and transplanted organs from each other. Sisters were forced to have children from brothers. Sex reassignment operations were carried out.

Before starting the experiments, the “kind doctor” Mengele could pat the child on the head, treat him with chocolate ...

However, the chief doctor of Auschwitz was engaged not only in applied research. He did not shy away from "pure science". The prisoners of the concentration camp were infected with various diseases in order to test the effectiveness of new drugs on them. In 1998, one of the former prisoners of Auschwitz sued the German pharmaceutical company Bayer. The creators of aspirin were accused of using prisoners to test a new sleeping pill. Judging by the fact that shortly after the start of the “testing”, the concern additionally “acquired” another 150 prisoners of Auschwitz, no one could wake up after a new sleeping pill.

By the way, other representatives of German business also cooperated with the concentration camp system. The largest chemical concern in Germany, IG Farbenindustry, made not only synthetic gasoline for tanks, but also Zyklon-B gas for the gas chambers of the same Auschwitz. After the war, the giant company was "unbundled". Some of the fragments of IG Farbenindustry are well known in the world as drug manufacturers.

And what did Josef Mengele achieve? Nothing. It is impossible to consider as a scientific result the conclusion that if a person is not allowed to sleep and not fed, he will first go crazy and then die.

Quiet "getting away"

In 1945, Josef Mengele destroyed all the collected "data" and escaped from Auschwitz. Until 1949, he quietly worked in his native Günzburg at his father's firm. Then, according to new documents in the name of Helmut Gregor, he emigrated to Argentina. He received his passport quite legally, through the Red Cross. In those years, this organization issued passports and travel documents to tens of thousands of refugees from Germany. It is possible that Mengele's fake ID was not thoroughly verified there. Moreover, the art of forging documents in the Third Reich was at its best.

So Mengele ended up in South America. In the early 1950s, when Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest (with the right to kill upon arrest), the Nazi criminal moved to Paraguay, where he disappeared from view.
However, for 40 years after the end of the Second World War, "fake" Mengele appeared in a variety of places. So, in 1968, a former Brazilian policeman claimed that he allegedly managed to find traces of the Angel of Death (as Mengele was nicknamed by the prisoners) on the border of Paraguay and Argentina.

Shimon Wiesenthal - Founder Jewish Center to collect information about Nazi criminals - in 1979 announced that Mengele was hiding in a secret Nazi colony in the Chilean Andes. In 1981, a message appeared in the American Life magazine: Mengele lives in the Bedford Hills area, located 50 kilometers north of New York. And in 1985, in Lisbon, a suicide left a note admitting that he was the wanted Nazi criminal Josef Mengele.

Where was it found

Only in 1985 did it become known about the true location of Mengele, or rather, his grave. An Austrian couple living in Brazil reported that Mengele was Wolfgang Gerhard, who had been their neighbor for several years. The couple claimed that he drowned six years ago, that he was then 67 years old, and indicated the location of his grave: the town of Embu.

In the same year, the exhumation of the remains of the deceased was carried out. At each stage of this action, three independent groups of forensic experts participated in it, and live television broadcast from the cemetery was received in many countries of the world. In the coffin were only the decayed bones of the deceased, but everyone was looking forward to the results of their identification.

The chances of scientists to establish the identity of the deceased were regarded as quite high. The fact is that they had at their disposal an extensive archive of data on Mengele: since the war, the SS file contained information about his height, weight, skull geometry, and the condition of his teeth. The photographs clearly showed a characteristic gap between the front upper teeth.

Specialists who investigated the burial in Emba had to be very careful when making conclusions. The desire to find Josef Mengele turned out to be so great that there had already been cases of his erroneous identification, including deliberately falsified ones. Many such deceptions are described in the book by Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover "Witness from the Grave" (Christopher Joyce, Eric Stover. Witness From the Grave).

How was he identified

The bones found in the grave were subjected to a thorough examination, which was carried out by three independent groups of experts: from Germany, the USA and the Shimon Wiesenthal Center, located in Austria. At the end of the exhumation, scientists examined the grave for the second time in search of possibly fallen dental fillings and bone fragments. Then all parts of the skeleton were taken to Sao Paulo, to the Institute of Forensic Medicine, where further research continued.

The results obtained, compared with data on the identity of Mengele from the SS file, gave the experts reason to almost certainly consider the examined remains to be those of a wanted war criminal. However, they needed absolute certainty, they needed an argument convincingly confirming such a conclusion. And then Richard Helmer, a West German forensic anthropologist, joined the work of experts, thanks to whose participation it was possible to brilliantly complete the final stage of the entire operation.

Helmer was able to recreate the appearance of a deceased person from his skull. It was difficult and painstaking work. First of all, it was necessary to mark the points on the skull that served as starting points for restoring the appearance of the face, and accurately determine the distances between them.

After that, the researcher created a computer "image" of the skull. Further, based on his professional knowledge of the thickness and distribution of soft tissues, muscles and skin, he received the following computer image, which already clearly reproduced the features of the restored face. The last - and most critical - moment of the whole procedure came when the face, recreated by computer graphics, was combined with the face in Mengele's photograph.

Both images are exactly the same. Thus, it was finally proved that the man who had been hiding in Brazil for many years under the name of Helmut Gregor and Wolfgang Gerhard and who drowned in 1979 at the age of 67 was really the Angel of Death of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the cruel Nazi executioner, Dr. Josef Mengele.

Vadim ILYIN

Every time the train delivered another prisoner to Auschwitz, and those, exhausted by the road and endless hardships, lined up, a tall, stately figure of Josef Mengele grew up in front of the prisoners.

Every time the train delivered another prisoner to Auschwitz, and those, exhausted by the road and endless hardships, lined up, a tall, stately figure of Josef Mengele grew up in front of the prisoners.

On his face - a smile, he was always in a good mood. Neat, well-groomed, in white gloves, perfectly ironed uniform and polished boots. Mengele hummed an operetta under his breath and decided the fate of people. Just think: so many lives - and all were in HIS hands. Like a conductor with a baton, he waved his hand with a whip: right - left, right - left. He created his own symphony, unknown to anyone: the symphony of death. Those who were sent to the right faced a painful death in the cells of Auschwitz. And only 10-30 percent of those who arrived were given the opportunity to work in production and live ... for the time being.

However, those “lucky ones” who ended up in line “to the left” were waiting for something more terrible than gas chambers. Hard slave labor, hunger - these are just flowers. Each of the prisoners risked falling under the scalpel of the smiling Dr. Mengele, who conducted inhuman experiments on humans. The "guinea pigs" of the Angel of Death (as Anne Frank called Mengele in her diary) ... what did they experience?

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There are stories about the experiments of Josef Mengele that make the hair on the back of the head move in any person capable of compassion. No Wikipedia can convey the cruelty and pain that Dr. Mengele subjected the prisoners to. Castration and sterilization of people, testing endurance with cold, temperature, pressure, radiation, implantation of dangerous viruses and much, much more. It is noteworthy that all experiments were carried out on prisoners without anesthetics. Many "test subjects" were even opened while still alive. Most of all went to the twins, to whom the Angel of Death had a special weakness (but more on that later). There is even a myth that Dr. Mengele's office was hung with children's eyes. But this is just one of the popular legends that this mystical and terrible figure has overgrown with time.

Who is Dr. Mengele? Researchers talk about what they found literary works, including the memoirs of the Angel of Death. He was very gifted and a genius in his own way. Evil genius. Today we will consider the personality of Josef Mengele from the point of view of system-vector psychology and try to find the reasons why such monsters appear in the world.

Background. Nazi Germany

Even the philosophers of the 18th century wrote that a person is determined by the environment in which he grows and is brought up. This statement shows its veracity in practice: after all, what is put into our heads from childhood largely determines what we will become in the future. Josef Mengele was born and raised in Nazi Germany. The ideas of fascism had a huge impact on him.

Let us consider in more detail what moods of that time left an indelible mark on the personality of Doctor Death.

The idea of ​​purity of blood, the desire to revive the so-called Aryan race - all this especially gripped Germany in the 1930s. The birth rate in Germany was falling, the death rate of children was growing, and it was not so rare that sick children with certain defects were born. At the same time, a large number of people of other nationalities living in Germany (Jews, Gypsies, Slavs) posed a “threat” of incest for the owners of the anal vector. All this made the Nazis afraid of the possible degeneration of the Aryan race - the very one that, according to Hitler, was destined to become the chosen one.

The very idea of ​​fascism is a product of the anal vector, elevated into an ideology for the masses with the help of a sound vector. After all, it is the carriers of the anal vector that differentiate everything into “clean” and “dirty”. "Pure", in their view, is healthy, correct, ideal. "Dirty" carries all kinds of defects, therefore blindness, deafness, schizophrenia, according to such people, arise due to the admixture of "dirty", "unhealthy" blood of other nationalities. The only way out of the revival of "pure blood" is the destruction of all "spots": people of other nationalities and their "offspring" - unhealthy children. Sound doesn't care human lives. The idea is above everything. And whether this idea will harm or benefit humanity depends on the state of sound.

Extreme measures were taken to ensure the "rebirth of the Aryans". Firstly, all representatives of the "dirty blood" were persecuted, sent to camps. Incest with representatives of other nationalities was not only not encouraged, but also punished. Each member of the SS had to show his family tree and the family tree of his wife to prove the purity and nobility of his family. Every German had to go through such a process, so the facts of the presence of representatives of "dirty blood" in the family were hidden in every possible way. People were afraid to be among those sent to the camps.

In 1933, the issue of racial politics came to a head. Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick pointed to the problem of low birth rates. German women gave birth little, which adversely affected the prosperity of the state. The decline of the family was noted - the influence of liberals and democrats. Thus, new legislation on marriage and the family was prepared (authors - Heinrich Himmler and Martin Bormann). The Nazis proceeded from the fact that many men would die during the war, and a responsible mission was assigned to the women of Germany: to give birth to as many healthy children as possible. From now on, every German woman up to 35 years old should have time to give birth to four children from purebred men, and physically and mentally healthy men were allowed to marry not one, but two and more women. The goal is to increase the birth rate. As a rule, holders of the highest awards were endowed with such a right.

"All married or unmarried women, if they do not have four children, are obliged before reaching the age of thirty-five to give birth to these children from racially impeccable German men. Whether these men are married or not is irrelevant.” wrote Himmler, who proposed forcibly dissolving marriages where no new children had appeared for five years. Moreover, all women over 35 who already have four children had to voluntarily release their husband to another woman.

But, unfortunately, not all children were born and are born healthy. Newborns with physical and mental disabilities, as well as weak children, according to the ideologists of fascism, were not needed by the country, as they destroyed the gene pool. The ideological inspirer and leader of the Nazis, Hitler believed that the Aryans were an irreproachable nation of strong and healthy people Therefore, the weak, frail, sick must be exterminated. “If a million children were born in Germany every year and seven hundred to eight hundred thousand of the weakest were immediately destroyed, then the end result would be the strengthening of the nation” Hitler said. Systemically, one can understand the absurdity and wildness of this statement, since nature will always restore the balance it needs (20% of anals, 24% of skins, 5% of spectators, etc.).

Thus, a law was passed to prevent the appearance of offspring with unhealthy heredity. Unhealthy people were offered to be sterilized if there was a danger that the disease could be inherited. These were primarily people with schizophrenia, blindness and deafness. That is why, by order of the state, propaganda videos were created, which talked about natural selection: about how nature itself created the law when the fittest survives. It was also planned to introduce euthanasia for weak and sick children.

The main goal that confronted anthropologists and doctors was the creation of an ideal nation. There was also a special science - eugenics - which dealt with the issue of the revival of the Aryan race. The country was waiting for its "hero-doctors", covered by fascist ideas, and waited - Josef Mengele appeared, Doctor Death, obsessed with the idea of ​​​​a pure race so much that he was ready to transcend the Hippocratic oath and any familiar to every person ethical standards and installations.

Childhood of Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele was born in Günzburg. He was the second son of a successful agricultural machinery factory manager.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of facts, we can only determine the lower vectors of the parents. The father, according to the memoirs of Josef Mengele himself, was a cold, detached man, obsessed with work and not paying any attention to his children. Carl Mengele is an anal-skin man who has achieved significant heights. It was at his factory that Hitler spoke when he first came to Günzburg, and it was to this factory that the Führer allocated significant material resources during the war.

The mother of Walburg Mengele is a powerful anal-muscular-muscular person with a penchant for sadism. She was a cruel, despotic woman, extremely demanding. All the factory workers were afraid of her like fire, because she was very quick-tempered, explosive: she often flogged the workers in public for not doing a job well enough. No one wanted Walburga's wrath to fall on his head, so everyone was wary of her.

Mengele's mother also showed her dictatorial nature in the family. She was the sovereign mistress, to whom all other members of the family, including the skin husband, were subordinate. From her sons, Walburga demanded everything that parents with an anal vector often demand from their children: unquestioning obedience and respect, diligent study at school, observance of Catholic rites and traditions. Respect, obedience, adherence to traditions - all these are the main values ​​​​of any anal person. Karl Mengele, like everyone else, was afraid of the wrath of his wife, who sawed him for any reason.

The story is described how one day Karl Mengele bought new car in honor of the growth of the profits of his factory, for which thunder and lightning fell on him from Walburga: she was angry and scolded her husband for the unreasonable waste of money and for not asking permission from his wife.

Josef Mengele himself in his memoirs described his mother as a creature incapable of love and affection. The early childhood impressions of the future Angel of Death are directly related to the constant quarrels of the father and mother and the cold attitude of both parents towards children. This, of course, left its mark on Josef's mind and was one of those particles that made up the personality of Doctor Death, because resentment of the owners of the anal vector very often begins with.

Actually Josef Mengele himself

So, the "Angel of Death" had the following set of vectors:

Congenital deformity saved an entire family from death in the gas chamber

At midnight on May 19, 1944, another train of Jews arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS guards habitually drove people into groups, the shepherd dogs burst into hoarse barking. And suddenly seven midgets appear at the door of the car: five women dressed as if at a ball and two men in elegant suits. Not at all embarrassed by the situation, they look around with interest, and one of them begins to distribute business cards to the stunned guards: let them know what strange place the world-famous Lilliput Troupe has arrived!

Having found out that all these kids are brothers and sisters, the SS officer ordered his subordinates to urgently wake up the doctor. Josef Mengele. Everyone knew that he "collects" his own cabinet of curiosities and simply adores all sorts of deviations from the norm. And then there are seven Lilliputian relatives at once. Mengele, after hearing what was the matter, immediately jumped out of bed.

Music connected them

The dwarfs did not yet know that the "doctor" they expected preferred to treat with radical methods. Say, when a typhus epidemic broke out in one of the women's barracks, he simply sent 498 of its inhabitants to the gas chambers. And they didn’t know about the monstrous experiments on living people either. Therefore, when Herr Mengele began to ask questions, they gladly told the story of their family.

Shimshon Ovitz from the Romanian town of Roswell was a midget, which did not prevent him from marrying women of normal height twice. Seven of his children were born small, three were ordinary. The head of the family died when the youngest, Perla, was not even two years old. The second wife of Shimshon - Batya-Berta was left alone with ten offspring in her arms. It occurred to her that children should learn music, and she did not lose. All quickly mastered various tools, created family ensemble and started touring. Troupe Ovitsev was a great success and, accordingly, a good income. They could even afford a car, a rarity in those days. But in 1940, part of Romania came under the control of Nazi Hungary, and restrictions on Jews came into force. In particular, they were forbidden to speak in front of representatives of other nationalities. The team temporarily stopped playing concerts, and during the downtime, the Ovits were able to fix fake documents for themselves in order to start performing again. But in 1944, the secret became clear, and the whole family - 12 people aged from 15 months to 58 years old - was sent to Auschwitz.

Saved by the devil

The musical abilities of Dr. Mengele's family members were of little interest. But the union of the dwarf with ordinary woman and the ratio of normal offspring to children with disabilities is incredible! Therefore, he ordered not to touch the Ovits. Confidently lying to the monster about his close relationship with unusual family, their neighbor Simon Shlomovitz saved his - ten people. All of them were settled separately from other prisoners. They were allowed to walk in their own clothes and not shave their heads. Sometimes they were even fed not with gruel, but with more or less decent food.

“Perhaps we have cheered him up and he wants us to put on a show here too,” the Ovits thought. Therefore, when they were called to the doctor, the women dressed up and put on makeup (they were allowed to keep their makeup). However, in the laboratory, they simply took blood from everyone. A week later again. And then more and more. Such volumes were pumped out of the poor Lilliputians that they fainted. But as soon as they came to their senses, the execution was repeated.

They made careless punctures, and blood splattered in all directions. We often felt sick. When we returned to the barracks, we fell on the bunk. But they did not have time to restore strength, as we were called for a new cycle, - she recalled Perla Ovitz.

Family members were tested for function internal organs, looked for typhus, syphilis and other diseases, pulled out their healthy teeth and pulled out their eyelashes. Psychiatrists asked endless questions, supposedly testing intelligence. But the most terrible torture was injections into the ears: boiling water, followed by ice water, and so on in a circle. The most annoying thing is that Josef Mengele himself did not understand how to use the results of his monstrous experiments and what they could tell him about the mystery of this family. But at the same time, he enthusiastically asked the wife of the eldest of Abraham's dwarfs, Dora (she was of normal height) about the smallest details of their sex life.

However, at least they were still alive. But another hunchback dwarf who appeared in the camp was much less fortunate. The savage doctor decided that the skeletons of little freaks should be put in Berlin Museum, ordered to throw the unfortunate man into the cauldron and boil him until the meat separated from the bones.

And ordinary twins were the fanatic's favorite "stuff". He transfused blood and transplanted their organs to each other, tried to change eye color with chemicals, infected with viruses. I wanted to understand how twins are made, and to make sure that german women gave birth to two or three racially pure children at a time

So the Ovitz were even grateful to their "savior." And they always tried to appear before him neat and cheerful. The women even flirted with Josef, and he brought their children toys of the kids destroyed in the camp. The youngest of the family, named after his grandfather Shimshon, even once called Mengele dad. He gently corrected the one and a half year old boy: "No, I'm not dad, I'm just Uncle Josef."

With the youngest of the midgets - Perla, who was then 23, it seems that something happened that many years later will be called "Stockholm syndrome".

Dr. Mengele looked like a movie star, only more handsome, she said. - Everyone could fall in love with him. But none of those who saw him could imagine what kind of pretty face the monster is hiding. We knew that he was merciless and capable of the most terrible forms of sadism. That when he was angry, he fell into hysterics. But, being in a bad mood, he immediately calmed down as soon as he crossed the threshold of our barracks. Seeing him in a good mood, everyone in the camp said, “Probably visited the kids.”

Visual material

One evening the doctor looked in on the dwarfs, holding a small bundle in his hands. He told his charges that they were going to have a special trip the next day. Noticing how the Lilliputians turned pale, he reassured them with a smile. And he left a bag in which there were lipstick, blush, nail polish, eye shadow, a bottle of cologne. The women were delighted.

The next day, at dawn, all the Lilliputians were put into a truck and taken to a building located in the SS residential camp. They even fed us a hearty dinner served on china plates and silver cutlery.

Then the troupe was brought to the stage. The hall was full - entirely the leadership. The sheep drew themselves up, but then Mengele barked: “Take off your clothes!” They had no choice but to obey. Trying to cover up intimate parts, Lilliputians hunched over. "Straighten up!" the tormentor shouted at them. And then he began to give a lecture called "Examples of work with anthropological and hereditary biology in concentration camps", the essence of which was that the Jewish people were degenerating, turning into a nation of freaks. Lilliputians, as well as possible, were suitable as a visual aid. So the SS officers were happy to feel the Ovits at the end of the speech.

It was another test for the family, but nevertheless Mengele saved them from death. Another camp doctor, jealous of Josef's position, sent the brothers Avraham and Mika behind his back to the gas chamber. But Mengele managed to pull them out. Therefore, the Ovitsy even took offense at the doctor, who did not take them with him when he was transferred from Auschwitz to the Gross-Rosen camp. And not in vain. The Lilliputians left without the support of the devil were going to be sent to the gas chamber. But they are lucky again. Their execution was scheduled for January 27, 1945, but on that day they entered Auschwitz soviet soldiers. A few months later, the miraculously surviving Ovits returned to their looted and destroyed house. Later they moved to Belgian Antwerp. And after the formation of Israel, they moved to Haifa. They lived long life: the elder sister Rozika died at 98 years old, the youngest - Perla left at 80. She did not feel malice towards her torturer.

If the judges had asked me if he should be hanged, I would have answered that he should be released, she said. - I was saved by the grace of the devil - God will pay tribute to Mengele.

Estimate!

Prisoner of Auschwitz, Czech Dina Gottlibova, on the orders of Dr. Mengele, made drawings of the heads, auricles, noses, mouths, arms and legs of his experimental subjects, including Ovitsev. She recalled that Josef called the dwarfs the names of the seven dwarfs from the fairy tale. Ironically, Dina married an artist after the war Arthur Babbitt who drew characters for Disney's Snow White.

Bear in mind

* Josef MENGELE(1911 - 1979) - SS Hauptsturmführer, awarded the Iron Cross 1st class for rescuing two tankers from a burning tank.

* The topic of his doctoral dissertation was "Racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw."

* In Auschwitz, he dissected live babies, castrated boys and men without anesthesia, subjected women to high-voltage electric shocks to test their endurance, sterilized a group of Polish nuns using X-rays.

* Received the nickname Angel of Death.

* Until 1949, he hid in Bavaria, from there he fled to Argentina. When he was tracked down by agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad - Mengele was the most wanted Nazi criminal after Adolf Eichmann, moved to Paraguay and later to Brazil.

* While swimming in the state of São Paulo, the ghoul suffered a stroke and drowned.