oners were starving and dying.Mengele served many purposes at Auschwitz, he made selections of the newly arrivingprisoners,those who could work to the right, and those who couldn't to the left (gas chambers), and heperformed experiments. Mengele wanted to create a "pure" Aryan race, and to make Germanmothers give birth to as many German babies as possible.Doing selections gave Mengele access to any prisoner he wanted, he could hand pick his testsubjects-and he did. "Zwillinge, Zwillinge, Zwillinge!" Twins, Twins, Twins! Mengele picked twins,dwarfs, and people who had deformities to do experiments on. He wanted to erase these traitsfromthe "pure" Aryan race. Mengele was very interested in doing autopsies on twins who had died attheexact same time, in the real world one twin might die at 7 while the other might die at 77, but inthisclosed environment he could study twins who had died at the same moment.Many of Mengele's experiments were based on literally creating a blond hair blue eyed race. Onereason why Mengele might have been obsessed with "German" looks is because his brown hairandeyes, and his gypsy-esque look didn't define him as a "pure" Aryan. One of his most famousexperiments was with eye color. Mengele or one of his assistants would inject dyes into theunanesthetized eye of a child, preferably a set of twins. The dyes often resulted in injury,sometimescomplete blindness, not to mention excruciating pain.Another set of experiments were designed to create better equipment for German soldiers, bettergear for the cold, and for high altitudes. A set of freezing experiments were performed to makeclothing for navy crew who might fall in the water. People were placed in vats of ice water,naked, tosee the fatal temperature of a human. People were locked outside, in snow and ice, also naked,tocollect more information on human body temperature. Also sometimes after he had chilledsomeoneMengele would try to warm the person up, back to norm...
