These bloody days have broken my heart,
My lust, my youth did them depart.
For your wit alone many men would bemoan,
And since it is so, many still cry aloud.
It is a great loss that you are dead and gone,
A time you had above your poor degree,
Before whereof your friends may well bemoan,
A rotten twig upon so high a tree has slipped your hold
And you are dead and gone.
These bloody days have broken my heart,
My lust, my youth did them depart.
And blind desire of ambitious souls,
Who haste to climb seeks to revert and about the throne
The thunder rolls.
These bloody days have broken my heart…
Wartime sawmill “pit women,” Concord, New Hampshire, 1943. Photograph by John Collier.
(Source: discosherpa, via cra-nium)
MENGELE, Josef SS-Hauptsturmführer
1911 - 1979
Camp Doctor
Mengele was born in Günzburg (Bavaria), the son of a prosperous middle-class family. As a student his main interests were philosophy and medicine, particularly anthropology and genetics. In 1936 he became a doctor and one year later he joined the NSDAP. In 1939 he joined the SS and served from June 1940 as a doctor in the SS-division “Wiking”.
From November 1940 until May 1941, he worked as a specialist in genealogy in the RuSHA (“Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt” - The Department for Race and Resettlement). From June 1941 until the end of 1942 he served at the front, and among other decorations was awarded the Iron Cross Class 1 for bravery. He again served within the RuSHA for a few months, until he was transferred voluntarily to Auschwitz. Here he could work without limit on his main interest: research on twins, a topic he had made the subject of his medical thesis in 1938.
On 30 May 1943 he was officially appointed camp doctor in the “Gypsy Camp” and thus had almost unhindered access to an unlimited quantity of “human material “. His so-called “studies” covered many aspects of medicine and genetics. His particular interests were research into twins and deformity.
Mengele served in several different posts as a doctor in Auschwitz. His enormous energy and his methods soon gave him the name: “Angel of Death” (in Hebrew/Yiddish: “Malach ha’Mavet”).
There is no doubt that numerous witnesses have accused Mengele of many crimes that he did not commit, but at the same time it must be emphasized that no doctor in Auschwitz was as feared as he. In August 1944 his superior, StandortarztEduard Wirths, certified that Mengele had “common sense, endurance and energy”, probably because during the chaotic weeks of summer 1944 Mengele reached the peak of his power. With the transports from Hungary a vast number of twins arrived, whom he abused for his anthropological examinations and experiments. Jewish and Gypsy children were his especial victims, but thousands of adults were selected by him for death, both on the ramp and within the camp. His ruthless methods fighting typhus in the camp were particularly infamous. On one occasion he sent all of the prisoners of one block to the gas chambers so that the whole block could be simultaneously deloused.
Mengele remained in Auschwitz until 17 January 1945 when the evacuation began. Despite orders to burn everything incriminating, he tried to save his written material. He served as a camp doctor at KZ Gross-Rosen for one month, and then hid himself in a Wehrmacht unit. In June 1945 he was arrested by the Americans, but since he was not recognized he was released one month later.
Because his name was often mentioned in the ongoing Nazi trials, he lived under a false identity until 1948. He finally left Europe and emigrated to Argentine in 1949. In South America he lived in several different countries, always on the run until his death in 1979.
His fate after the war and the myths connected to his person resulted in the formation of a British team of doctors in 1992, which identified his body beyond all doubt using DNA tests. Mengele had drowned in Brazil whilst swimming.(For my Doktor lovin friend)
Once and only once,..XD
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