genetic research, Mengele ran a laboratory at Auschwitz where he studied twins, dwarfs, and any other deformed beings he came across on the ramp. He provided larger food rations for his subjects, as well as better sleeping arrangements. He clothed most in more than the rags that many prisoners outside the laboratory wore and allowed his subjects to keep their hair, unlike the camp's workers, whose hair was shaved off upon arrival. Although Mengele allowed his subjects better living conditions than the camp allowed the prisoners, he thought no better of them than he thought of the prisoners. He believed that Jews and Roma were vermin who threatened the vitality of the German super-race. As taught from his early years in higher education at the University of Munich, Mengele supported the Nuremberg Race Law and was more than willing to put the lives of "unworthies" to a better use, his research.On the ramp, he and his assistants would swarm the crowd of filthy prisoners in search of twin children. As the men shouted out, "Twins, twins," mothers held onto their twin babies tightly, unsure of whether giving them up would give them a chance of freedom or send them straight to the gas chamber. The twins that were found and taken to the Mengele laboratory suffered horribly at the hands of the bloodthirsty madman. He often bled the children and transferred a pair of twins' blood into another set of twins, causing the children to suffer from an unbearable headache and a high fever that lasted for days. Once he bled a child to death. Mengele enjoyed using one twin as the control and the other as the experiment. He subjected children to solitude in cages, various painful stimuli to test reactions, surgery to remove organs or limbs without anesthetic, and infectious agents, in order to test the duration the twin could last infected with a fatal disease. Mengele embarked on the "noma" deformity, which particularly struck his interest. C...
