Did Josef Mengeles experiments result in advances in medicine?
Not because of the obvious and tragic breaches of human ethics but because now we know you cannot make conjoined twins by sewing to identical twins together. Of course, he didn’t know how twins were made but his theories must have been very unsophisticated even for his time. Sadly however, most of what we know about the human body under extremly low pressures we know it because of Nazi experiments with human subjects in concentration camps. These experiments were not conducted by Mengele but by Dr. Strughold in Dachau. Bayer pharmaceutical company, one of the richest corporations today, had access to prisoners in Nazi Germany to experiment with their drugs, such as the formula for acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). Mengele gave Fritz Meer, a member of the Nazi party, authorization to use prisoners and camp facilities for his drugs. Based on his initial research on prisoners he discovered that the formula for aspirin was non-toxic and had little side effects. After being accused of crimes
