aused by the filthy and brutal conditions of Auschwitz, nomas are instances of gangrene in the face and mouth. Mengele frantically searched during his time at Auschwitz for a genetic or racial purpose behind the noma. The noma is simply caused by a bacterial infection. Another favorite experiment of his was his work with eye color. Mengele experimented on sets of twins, injecting methylene blue into subjects' eyes in an attempt to permanently change the eye to an Aryan shade of blue. He especially liked to study patients who had two different colored eyes, a condition called heterochemia. Once done with a subject, Mengele preferred to inject chloroform into the heart and immediately dissect the entire body. Often times, he sent off specimens of eyeballs and other organs to his mentor, von Vershuer, for no apparent reason except false data supporting his fairy tale theories. The research performed at Auschwitz had nothing to do with real science; it was based on Mengele imaginary theories and hypotheses about racial science that had been implanted through the influence of the jaded medical experts and scholars, as well as the Nazi party. A small part of it also included Mengeles cold and callous attitude toward the value of life that could possibly be traced back to the unloved child he once was.While many of his victims seldom left the lab alive, Josef Mengele escaped from Auschwitz moments before the camp's liberation. He found refuge at other camps, including Gross-Rosen and Mauthausen, escaping before they too were liberated. Eventually captured as a POW, Mengele was released solely on the basis that he did not appear as the enemy, due to the lack of blood type tattoo on his arm like most members of the SS. Due to the Allies confusion, Mengele was able to escape to South America, where he took on various aliases and remarried his brother Karl's widow, Martha in 1959. In 1964, the University of Munich withdrew his degree ...
