t only Jews and Gypsies would get face gangrene (a disease which consumed the flesh off of a persons face) but in fact the reason was because of a bacterial infection. A lot of Mengele's experiments had no scientific derivation, he just did them to do them. When people questioned his motives he just shook his head and brushed them off while walking away. People argue that eugenics is a false science, it is about the selective prevention or encouragement of births for social, racial, or political ends. Adolf Hitler used eugenics to create a war. He thought the Jews were the route of all evil and therefore commenced to create concentration camps were thousands of Jews were executed, along with other races. Josef, seeing the logic in Hitler's statements, commenced to try and create the 'super race'. Auschwitz was Mengele's home, his house, his place to carry out his evil intentions. Auschwitz was the most streamlined mass killing center created and was one of the five "death camps" constructed by the Nazis. This is were Mengele would attempt to create an Aryan race, a race with impeccable features. Auschwitz was constructed on April 27, 1940. Auschwitz was composed of three large camps and forty-five mini-camps. At the entrance of the original Auschwitz stood the infamous sign that stated "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work makes one free). Because of the increased number of prisoners Auschwitz II was built, Birkenau. This was the greatest feared place because this is were all of the executions took place. At Auschwitz JosefMengele directed the flow of traffic to die or work. He would immediately stop everything if he spied a set of twins. Often, though, twins would volunteer themselves, figuring it was better to be with Mengele then die in a chamber. Unfortunately at Auschwitz the Nazis had perfected the use of gas chambers and crematoria, along with being a laboratory for Josef Mengele. Today the word "Auschwitz" is synotmous...
