al functioning levels-this almost neverworked.One of the more gruesome experiments was a pressure chamber. Prisoners were locked inside apressure chamber that would simulate flying at high altitudes. The person's breathing pattern wasmeticulously recorded, until they died. People would often kill themselves by throwingthemselvesagainst the walls of the chamber, so that they would not die a more horrible death, suffocationandsometimes explosion. As in the words of Anton Pacholegg, an Austrian prisoner who assisted Dr.Rascher in the Dachau camp;"I have personally seen through the observation window of the decompression chamber, when aprisoner inside would stand a vacuum until his lungs ruptured."One can not help but wonder what kind of a person could ever consider doing things so horrible,much less carry them out. Who could ever kill an innocent child by injecting chloroform into theirheart, causing the blood to coagulate and kill the child. Who could ever imagine sewing a set oftwinstogether to try and make siamese twins? These acts just seem to be out of the human realm. YetJosef Mengele did all of these acts, and more. When the Nazis realized that the Allied forcesweregetting closer, the Nazis covered up their deeds by destroying most of the gas chambers and thepathology lab next to them that was occupied by the "doctor" Mengele. We may never know theextent to which the experiments went.Mengele covered up his past as well as the Nazis covered up Auschwitz, and better. JosefMengeleleft Auschwitz on January 17, 1945 after being there since 1943. Mengele secretly joined anormalGerman infantry, and was released after the Allies found the soldiers in which Mengele washiding.There had always been a strong Nazi presence in South America, so with funds from his family,hewent off the Argentina. Mengele lived with a farming family in Argentina for a while, but Mengelewasvery scared of being caught, so between 1945 and 1979 Mengele moved to and f...
