#dr nyiszli miklos

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It's important to address that MOST countries were complicit, but not all of them. Polish underground goverment formed an organisation called "Żegota" specifically to save Jews. Poland was the ONLY country in German-occupied Europe where such a government-established underground organization existed.

And while Polish people were risking and loosing their lives to aid jewish people, France was being PAID in gold to transport them by trains straight to Auschwitz. Though according to Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian ex-prisoner of Auschwitz, due to the summer heat and the long journey and the fact that Nazis didn't give them any water the whole wagons of people arrived already dead, so they didn't have to gas them, just undress them, strip them of their clothes and jewlery, rip out any golden teeth that they will later melt into golden pucks to pay France with and chug them into the cremating furnaces.

When talking about this subject we need to reneber who stood up against them, who was complicit and who literally took part in it for tge sake of profit.

being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just *mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns-*

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PopSugar Reading Challenge #36: A Book Written by an Incarcerated or Formerly Incarcerated Person

"Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli

Holocaust books are always tough, but I believe remembering those events is important - to prevent them from happening again as well as to honor the memories of those who needlessly died.

"Auschwitz" is a very straightforward telling of what happened in the infamous concentration camp. The author states right away that he is a doctor, not a writer, and the book can feel cold and unfeeling just like you might expect doctor's medical notes to feel. And yet, the horrors described don't need emotion. They are terrible enough on their own, just the facts. And there are certainly plenty of facts here. For anyone who is familiar with the history of the Holocaust, the events are not surprising. But being able to see them from the perspective of someone who was there confirms the worst of what we've been told of Nazi Germany.

"The minute I entered this place I had the feeling I was already one of the living-dead. But now, in possession of all these fantastic secrets, I was certain I would never get out alive."

I hesitate to say I enjoyed the book; it's just not a pleasant topic. However, I feel I gained further understanding of this time in history, and that makes the read worth it.

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01/03/2107 // I finished this book in 2 days read the last page today. 

I usually do not like parallel-reading, I mean reading 2 or more books at once because usually I am just going to abandon one of them in favour for the other. And I am reading the Brother Karamazov at the moment but I have a unique experience with this one: I have to take it slow. If I read only a couple of pages/day from the Brother Karamazov it can really sink in I can surely comprehend the meaning and message incorporated within the words. So I took a break and picked up this book about the Holocaust as I have long decided to read it.

I read it in Hungarian as the book was written in my mother-tongue and I prefer reading in the original language. My secret wish is to be able to read grand novels in their original language - the more the better. 

The book is written by a Holocaust survivor dr Miklos Nyiszli who shares details about his time spent in Auschwitz where he was picked to be the medical examiner to support dr Mengele’s experiments and research. He was a doctor not an author so the style of the book is detached and have traces of emotions in it. 

Many details are shared about how these death-camps worked and what the every-day life was like and at the end of the book (at least the version I read) additional information is given to specify certain elements and we also see what happened to the war criminals, including Mengele, after the defeat of the Third Reich. 

A very interesting read indeed but also raised a couple of questions for me so I am going to do some further reading. So this books is excellent food for thought.

I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the topic of the Second World War.

Beware! It is not a light read but definitely worth the time spent with it. 

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With as many people as there are claiming that Wanda is a Nazi....

It's just occurred to me that these people are likely on the younger side, and might legitimately not have realized the significance of her stint with HYDRA.

So with that in mind...let's go into a little refresher on Doctor Mengele...

During World War II, Doctor Mengele was one of the Nazi scientists who experimented on Jewish victims who had been sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

In particular, Mengele was known for his fascination with twins.

There’s a very good article HERE, which I’m going to be quoting from, but let’s look at some of the parallels between Dr. Strucker and Dr. Mengele that are hinted at in Wanda and Pietro’s “recruitment” in the MCU.

Mengele's handsome physical appearance, fastidious dress, and calm demeanor seemingly contradicted his attraction to murder and gruesome experiments.

His ability to elude capture increased his notoriety

Mengele would get very excited when he found twins. The other SS officers who helped unload the transports had been given special instructions to find twins, dwarfs, giants or anyone else with a unique hereditary trait like a club foot or heterochromia (each eye a different color) [...] The twins were then tattooed and given a number from a special sequence. They were then taken to the twins' barracks where they were required to fill out a form.

About 3,000 twins were pulled from the masses on the ramp, most of them children; only around 200 survived. When the twins were found, they were taken away from their parents.

Since they were "Mengele's children," they were treated differently than other prisoners.

Though they suffered through medical experiments, the twins were often allowed to keep their hair and allowed to keep their own clothes.

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Mengele's presence did not necessarily cause fear in the children. He was often known to appear with pockets full of candy and chocolates, to pat them on the head, talk with them, and sometimes even play. Many of the children, especially the younger ones, called him "Uncle Mengele." The twins were given brief instruction in makeshift "classes" and were sometimes even allowed to play soccer. The children were not required to do hard work and had jobs like being a messenger. Twins were also spared from punishments as well as from the frequent selections within the camp. The twins had some of the best conditions at Auschwitz until the trucks came to take them to the experiments.

... the twins underwent various medical experiments. Mengele kept his exact reasoning for his experiments a secret. Many of the twins that he experimented on weren't sure for what purpose the individual experiments were for, or what exactly what was being injected or done to them.

The autopsies became the final experiment. [Dr. Miklos Nyiszli] performed autopsies on twins who had died from the experiments or who had been purposely killed just for after-death measurements and examination.

And, of course, there’s the whole “HYDRA is basically the Marvel Universe’s version of Nazis” thing to take into consideration.

It truly is a rather unsettling parallel when you look at it, especially given that the Maximoff twins are supposed to be from a Jewish family.

(And that it was Captain America who eventually rescued them, as a call back to Steve raiding prison camps in The First Avenger.)

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I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant - My Review Of The Book

I Was Doctor Mengele’s Assistant – My Review Of The Book

This book is something different, I just need to say that first. This is not comfortable reading at all. This is the true story of the horror inside Auschwitz concentration camp during second world war. What is told in the book is not human at all, it’s just the terrible truth written down by Dr Mengele’s assistant Miklos Nyiszli. In 1946, right after the war was ended the book was written and…

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I have to rant about WWII movies. Specifically Holocaust movies. You know what we need? Holocaust movies not about Jews. They weren’t the only people to go through it. They weren’t the only people to die. Most of the people who went through the Holocaust were actually Romani gypsies. They suffered the exact same prosecution that the Jewish people did. Were considered not even human and worse than garbage. Hitler targeted them in his speeches too. They also were sent to the death camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor & Treblinka. They were also sent to concentration camps: Buchenwald, Dachau, Ravensbrück, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, & Begern-Belsen. Same went for any other minority group: the disabled, mentally ill, twins, dwarfs, Slavs, blacks, LGBTQA, autistic people, priests, anarchists, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Poles & resistance fighters.

And does anybody care?!?! No.

Why?? Because most people believe Hitler only targeted Jews. Most people don’t know that all these other groups were also targeted. That black people also suffered under the Nuremberg Laws. Hitler targeted every minority group. Targeted anyone and everyone who was different.

5 million total non-Jewish people died during the Holocaust. (That is the official number but many historians believe it should be more closer)

Do their stories get told? Do you learn about them in your history classes? Are movies made about the Slavic people who were in the camps? Are books written about the Romani who were at Auschwitz-Birkenau? Were museums dedicated to all of the mentally ill who died? What about the disabled? The autistic? The LGBTQA? The countless twins who were operated on and literally torn apart and cut open without any anesthetics just because they wanted to see if the other twin could feel the pain as well? The dwarfs who were also horribly experimented on?

Known records tell us that 19,000 Romani died at Auschwitz. 30,000 were shot and killed in the Baltic States when the Einsatzgruppen and other mobile killing units went around. Numbers of other mass deaths are estimated to total up to 35% of Europe’s Romani population; speculated to be somewhere around 1.5 million. Many historians believe the numbers & percentages are alot larger. Ceija Stokja was 10 years old when she was sent to her first of three camps. Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and then Bergern-Belsen. Her brother died of Typhus while at Auschwitz and her and her mother were sent to Ravensbrück. There was a female guard there who would sick her dog on people. Stojka and her mother fled on train headed to Bergen-Belsen when the guard threatened to submerge the mom in ice water. They hid amongst the dead bodies until Allied forces attacked the train and freed them. Give me a movie about her.

60% of the LGBTQA who went to the camps died. Pierre Seel, a homosexual Frenchman, was 16 when he was sent to a camp. When they arrested him they raped him with a block of wood. While in the camp he had to watchcas his boyfriend was killed by being eaten by German Shepherds. He was released (reasons unknown) and forced to join the German Army. He ran, survived, and spoke about his time in the camp in a documentary as well as a memoir called I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual. (English translated title of course.) In the film he says: “Why did I not speak for 40 years? I am 90 percent disabled from the war.” He died in 2005. Give me a movie about him.

200,000 handicapped and mentally ill were speculated to have been killed during WWII. The euthanasia program was the first plan of mass-murder the Nazis committed. It broke the ground for all the others. They started it in 1939 with disabled children. Children were killed either by starvation or forced overdose of medication. At first it started with strictly infants but then the scope was widened up to the age of 17. In the autumn of ‘39 Hitler secretly signed an order to further it & protect the doctors whom performed the killings. That same autumn the Nazis began to kill handicapped and mentally ill adults. Everything was very secret and all the death notices were doctored to say the people died of natural causes. Hitler publicly stalled the program in 1941 but behind closed doors it still continued. Give me a movie about this.

Give me a movie about Josef Mengele. The Angel of Death. Garrison physician of Auschwitz he was responsible in all medical matters in the camp. But he’s most famous for his experiments with twins. The man who tore twins apart and stitched their bodies together. Who drugged one twin to see if the other would be affected. This is the man who collected and saved the eyes of his victims for “further research”.

Give me a movie about the man forced to work under Mengele. Prisoner-physician Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was imprisoned at Auschwitz along with his wife and daughter in 1944. This man was forced against his will to help Mengele perform his sick twisted experiments on twins and dwarfs. He was also forced to perform autopsies on those who died of infection. A man who, before working with Mengele, tried to help the ill and wounded.

Give me more movies like Der Utergang. Or Downfall which is the English translation. It’s a German film about Hitler’s last ten days of life. The movie shows a different side of Hitler than ever before. It’s the source of the rant that has since become a meme.

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The Complete Detail Of Son of Saul (2015) Name Son of Saul (2015) Storyline Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums who, to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son, tries to carry out his impossible deed: salvage the body and find a rabbi to bury it. While the Sonderkommando is to be liquidated at any moment, Saul turns away of the living and their plans of rebellion to save the remains of a son he never took care of when he was still alive. Detail Of Son of Saul (2015) Director László Nemes Writer

László Nemes

Clara Royer

Produced by

Krisztina Pintér -- producer

Gábor Rajna            -- producer

Gábor Sipos --  producer

Judit Stalter -- executive producer

Robert Vamos -- associate producer

Stars & Cast

Géza Röhrig -- Saul Ausländer

Levente Molnár -- Abraham Warszawski

Urs Rechn -- Oberkapo Biederman

Todd Charmont -- Bearded Prisoner

Jerzy Walczak-- Rabbi Frankel

Gergö Farkas-- Saul's Son

Balázs Farkas  --  Saul's Son

Sándor Zsótér -- Dr. Miklos Nyiszli

Marcin Czarnik -- Feigenbaum

Levente Orbán -- Russian Prisoner

Kamil Dobrowolski            -- Mietek

Uwe Lauer -- Oberscharführer Voss

Music by László Melis Genres Drama | War Country Hungary Language Hungarian | Yiddish | German | Polish | French Release Date

Hungary -- 11 June 2015

France -- 4 November 2015

Netherlands -- 5 November 2015

Filming Locations Hungary Certificate N/A Box Office Of Son of Saul (2015) Budget HUF 280,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend $37,930 (USA) (18 December 2015) Gross $1,776,814 (USA) (13 May 2016) Technical Specs of Son of Saul (2015) Runtime 107 min Sound Mix Dolby Digital Company Credits of Son of Saul (2015) Production Company

Laokoon Filmgroup

Hungarian National Film Fund

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I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant - My Review Of The Book

I Was Doctor Mengele’s Assistant – My Review Of The Book

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This book is something different, I just need to say that first. This is not comfortable reading at all. This is the true story of the horror inside Auschwitz concentration camp during second world war. What is told in the book is not human at all, it’s just the terrible truth written down by Dr Mengele’s assistant Miklos Nyiszli.

In 1946, right after the war was ended the book was written…

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Dr. Josef Mengele,  “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele was born on March 16th, 1911 to Karl and Walburga Mengele in Gunzburg, Germany near Ulm. He was the eldest of three brothers. Dr. Mengele earned a Phd in physical anthropology at the University of Munich and soon after (January of 1937)  became an assistant to Dr. Otmar Von Verschuer at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. Dr. Von Verschuer was infamous for his research and studies on twins, a study that impacted Dr. Mengele immensely. In 1937, Dr. Mengele joined the nazi party and the following year, joined the SS and then received a medical degree. Now, there is Unsure documentation of the events that took place during the times of 1937 through 1943. However, throughout these years, Dr. Mengele was drafted into the army and joined the Waffen-SS, or the Armed-SS, had a clear first function as a medical expert for the Race and Settlement Main Office, and served as a medical officer with the SS division “Wiking” when the SS Pioneer battalion V faced action on the eastern front. Dr. Mengele returned back to Germany, wounded, in 1943. During his recovery, he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for anthropology, human genetics, and Eugenics. During the summer of 1943, he was promoted to SS Captain and was transferred to Auschwitz on May 30th, 1943. He became the “Chief Camp Physician” at Auschwitz Birkenau In November and then started to perform lethal and agonizing tests on many Jewish and Roma/Gypsy children and twins. Under his Chief name, he had the full license to maim, torture, and kill subjects. Dr. Josef Mengele was responsible for many things, Including the Gypsy death camp at Birkenau. Alongside of this death camp, he also was responsible for performing “Selections” (The choice of which Jewish people lived, died, and were tested on), and often came off-duty for the search of twins. He specifically had a fascination with twins, heterochromia (A condition in which an individual’s two irises differ in color), and Noma (gangrene that infects the mucous membrane of the mouth and other tissue). He firmly endorsed nationalist and socialist racial theory and tried to demonstrate the degeneration of Gypsy and Jewish bloodline. During January 1945, Mengele fled Auschwitz as the Soviet Union approached. He Stayed at Gross-Rosen for a few weeks until its evacuation, then traveled west to avoid his capture from Soviet Union. His name was listed on the Wanted War Criminals. The US captured Mengele and unknowingly released him. Under false papers he worked as a farmhand in Rosenheim, Bavaria from 1945 to 1949.The warrant for his arrest was put out in 1959, 14 years after WW2 ended. In 1960, Mengele ran away to Paraguay and then to Brazil, where he then resided. Josef Mengele suffered a stroke while swimming and was buried under the name Wolfgang Gerhard. He eluded his captors for 34 years and was never caught. His former assistant Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a prisoner-physician, was under duress and was forced to assist Dr. Mengele. He later published “Auschwitz: A doctor’s eyewitness account” in his native hungarian language in 1946, and in english in 1960. Mengele conducted numerous experiments and has more than 1,000 deaths on his hands in the short 21 months he spent there. His most memorable experiments and acts of cruelty are listed below. ~ He once gassed 750 women whose block was infected with lice. ~ Killed all of the Jews from a transport by gas after a mother scratched and bit the doctor after he moved her away from her 13 year old daughter. ~ Collected the eyes of the deceased patients to further experiment and “research” artificially changing eye color and eye pigmentation. ~Performed an open autopsy on a One year old baby. ~Injected unknown chemicals and dyes into the eyes of children in hope to change eye color - which often led to complete blindness and excruciating pain. ~Removed organs and limbs, performed sex change operations, and performed other surgeries without anesthesia. ~Castrated boys ~Researched how long it took to freeze to death and the effects of freezing. ~Performed incestuous impregnations. ~Stood on pregnant women with full force and timed how long it took until the body miscarried and expelled the unborn baby. ~Tested unknown, illegal drugs on subjects. ~Put subjects through isolation endurance and then also studied their reaction to various stimuli. ~Injected subjects with lethal germs. ~Were placed in pressure chambers. His studies on Twins: ~Drew blood from twins until they died. ~Transfused blood from one twin to another ~Sew two gypsy children together to create siamese twins. However, they passed away due to a severely bad infection of gangrene in their hands after their veins were resected. ~Injected chloroform into the hearts of 14 pairs of twins and then dissected every single body and took note of each part. ~He would inject one twin with a deadly virus and then kill the other to compare organ tissue during their autopsy. The Ovitz Family: The Ovitz family is the largest family of Dwarves ever on record. Prior to WW2, they had been a sort of Vaudeville Act - The Lilliput Troupe. They would travel around Europe and sing folk songs in several languages. They also Happened to be Jewish. In 1944, they were sent to Auschwitz and were specifically chosen to be experimented on by Dr. Mengele. ~He would take blood samples and bone marrow samples daily. ~He would inject chemicals into their eyes which led to almost immediate blindness. ~He would pull on their hair and teeth daily. ~Ear drip torture. ~Subjects were even stripped in front of audiences and researchers during lectures and analysis. 12 members of the Ovitz clan survived WW2 - the largest family group to do so. They headed back to their hometown of Romania before they settled permanently in the newly created Israel.

Over the course of 21 months, 3,000 twins were murdered. We will never truly know the extent to his gruesome and inhumane psychological and physical experiments.

-Chaotic Evil.