Mengele

Employee of the month: Dr. Mengele

Dr. Joseph Mengele

In a number of documents only recently discovered exists a letter in which Bayer Sales Director Wilhelm Mann praised famous Nazi Dr. Joseph Mengele's experiments and promised to discuss financing from the company. "I have enclosed the first check," Mann wrote. "Dr. Mengeles experiments should, as we both agreed, be pursued. Heil Hitler!" Mengele wrote this to his bosses at Bayer headquarters;

"I have thrown myself into my work wholeheartedly, especially as I have the opportunity to test our new preparations. I feel like I am in paradise." (63)

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, 1912

Mengele's other employer during the war? The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI), controlled by the Rockefellers. (64) At Auschwitz and the KWI, Mengele oversaw thousands of deaths - sometimes all in one day. His numerous horrific experiments with dwarfs and twins other victims of "experiments" and "murder" are well documented. I shall quote from a particularly vivid passage;

One of the few existing documents that cover Mengele's time at Auschwitz is a paper he signed to accompany the head of a twelve-year-old Gypsy boy. On several occasions the head of a patient with noma (gangrenous face infection) was removed and sent to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. (65)

Mengele wasn't the only Nazi doctor to participate in genocide - there were thousands. But Mengele was the most famous. Something to think about, the next time you reach for that Bayer Aspirin.

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