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I'm actually impressed that Joseph Mengele held out as long as he did.
If he had been caught by the Allies, he would have undoubtedly be sentenced to hang once they found out how he treated Holocaust Victims, especially the children. The medical malpractice and inhumane experiments that he conducted during the Holocaust still give me nightmares, like the famous "conjoined twins" experiment.
But the man himself held out for 34 years as a fugitive. He escaped the Nuremberg trials because the Allies thought he was dead. He managed to get a fake ID and live under it for a while. He worked as a carpenter for a while.
When a request was made for him to be extradited in Argentina, It wasn't approved until after he fled to Paraguay.
The Israeli Intelligence Agency (Mossad) was on a Manhunt for him. But he managed to avoid them.
How did he go out? He was never caught. He was swimming, one day, and he had a stroke. Then he drowned. He was buried under the name "Wolfgang Gerhard".
I absolutely do not condone his activities during the Holocaust. If you are a sane human being, then you wouldn't, either. But... I can't help but be impressed by how long he held out after the Holocaust.
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I sometimes wonder if the man himself had a consciousness. He probably didn't.
Or maybe he did, but it was extremely twisted one. Rolf Mengele, his son, claimed that when he last visited his father, he found an unrepentant Nazi who claimed that he never hurt anyone. In some ways, that's even worse.
We could interpret this that he didn't consider his victims to be people. I actually think that that's what he meant. Evidently, this man didn't feel things like remorse.
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I actually decided to look up the person, because I had a fever dream involving the man. But the panic that I felt during that dream would probably have been nothing compared to actually facing the man.
And there are people who had to live their entire lives remembering their encounters with him. like that Mossad Agent's mom. I cannot imagine how they felt.
So much as telling a child about his experiments would probably create an emotionally traumatized child. Yet their are children who had to actually face the man. Telling a person about a horror, vs actually witnessing that horror... there is a world of difference.
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My former friend at Mossad told me how his mother found out that Mengele had killed her mother. He was doing some kind of "surgery" on her and when she started crying for her mom Mengele put on a creepy smile and told her to get used to the idea of never seeing her mother again. What made this man into the person he was wasnt just a lack of conscience. He was sadistic and actually enjoyed physically and psychologically tormenting others. Maybe he later lied to himself when told his son that he never hurt anyone, however, there was an Austrian female doctor named Ella Lingens who was imprisoned in Auschwitz for resisting the Nazi regime and she later gave testimony that Mengele made great efforts to cover his tracks and even tried to bribe her as a doctor in order to have a witness for his claim that all he ever did was normal medical and anthropological research. He also ordered all of his surviving victims and witnesses to be killed before he fled Auschwitz and the only reason why the SS did not comply with that order was because they had run out of Zyklon B by the wars end and some of them decided not to use bullets instead. I believe that Mengele was fully aware of what he did and that he actually relished in it.
