Mengele promoted medical experimentation on inmates, especially dwarfs and twins. He is said to have supervised an operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn together to create Siamses twins; the hands of the children became badly infected where the veins had been resected. (Snyder) Cohen tells us: "The only firsthand evidence on these experiments comes from a handful of survivors and from a Jewish doctor, Miklos Nyiszli, who worked under Mengele as a pathologist. …showed first 75 words of 1840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1840 total…infamous Doctor Mengele was dead. People didn't find out until the mid-1980's that Mengele was dead, I think that's quite fitting to the seemingly ever-present Josef Mengele. People say that they saw Mengele at the selection night and day. He was a mythological creature at Auschwitz, he could come at any time day or night to take test subjects from the barracks. Mengele was the symbol of the Nazis, evil, lurking, and always there.