r, Dr. Olga Lengyel, recalls Mengeles disturbingly joyful demeanor on the ramp during selection processes:How we despised his detached, haughty air, his continual whistling, and his frigid cruelty. Day after day, he was at his post, watching the pitiful crowd of men and women and children go struggling past, all in the last stages of exhaustion from the inhuman journey in the cattle trucks. He would point with his (riding) crop at each person and direct them with one word: "right" or "left." He seemed to enjoy his grisly task (Lynott).Upon his first days at the women's camp, Mengele sent an entire hospital ward of 600 sick women to the gas chamber. He often tormented the women he sent to death, forcing them to parade naked in front of him and other SS guards, while calling them "dirty whores" and stopping some to ask intimate details about their sexual experiences (Lynott).Along with his cruel and cold-hearted manner, Mengele possessed a temper that raged like the ocean, often times abruptly and unexpectedly. Another fellow inmate doctor, Gisella Perl, recalls an episode of Mengele's rage that lashed out at a female prisoner who had attempted for the sixth time to escape while being transported with other prisoners to the gas chamber: He grabbed her by the neck and proceeded to beat her head to a bloody pulp. He hit her, slapped her, boxed her, always her head -- screaming at the top of his voice, "You want to escape, dont you. You cant escape now. You are going to burn like the others, you are going to croak, you dirty Jew." As I watched, I saw her two beautiful, intelligent eyes disappear under a layer of blood. And in a few seconds, her straight, pointed nose was a flat, broken, bleeding mass. Half an hour later, Dr. Mengele returned to the hospital. He took a piece of perfumed soap out of his bag and, whistling gaily with a smile of deep satisfaction on his face, he began to wash his hands (Lynott).Still passionate about his...
