Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "History that Punches You in the Gut | TIK Q&A 26" video.
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@jussim.konttinen4981 To my knowledge he ran a farming equipment supply business or something along those lines post war. Any rumors or claims he conducted evil experiments post war are also fabrications. Surprisingly and likely supportive of claims about him being likely more legend than fact he lived for about 20-30 years under his own name, ie he wasn't really in hiding. Like many Nazis who went to South America, but like those who didn't think they did anything wrong he never bothered changing his name unlike others who knew people would be coming after them. Many scientist and soldiers didn't change their names, Mengele was among them. Not until I think the mid/late 1960s when he found out he had a bounty on his head anyways. His Diaries found after his death seem to never mention horrible experiments either, something you'd think he would of wrote down at least something about them in his own personal journals. Now if I recall, he son did claim he found a lot of documents of evil things his father did after his death, but also claimed he destroyed them out of shame. Though, likely he could of said that just to keep people from bugging him about it.
I do know the man was called the Angel of Death, because interviews with Camp Inmates well their attitudes toward Mengele vary quite a lot. Some people have relatively positive opinions of the man, while others described him as a monster. Some people could not even get the description of the man right, so you know up front many people were likely not honest. It's also plausible these people saw someone else and assigned that act to Mengele because Mengele becoming a big name by then so without knowing who they saw doing a deed they pinned it on a name they already heard horror stories about. I'm under the impression he was more of a doctor than a Mad scientist, though it is known and proven he did inject inmates with unknown compounds. Because no documentation of what seemed to have been found it's kind of in the air to 'what' those compounds exactly where. From what I've read it's also plausible he did decide if inmates were to be killed or not from time to time, but a lot of doctors did throughout all the camps, including many who were lethally injected in camps like Dachau. But he seems obsessive toward children, if you were a child at Birkenau under this protection as an experiment you actually had a high chance of surviving the camp. Which makes me wonder if he had different motives than "Bwuahaha" evil madman according to one girl who claimed to be one of his experiments... well women, she said he expected all the kids to be well fed, and well dressed, he seemed to take special interest in their health/well being, and that he would give them regular injections. I wish I could find the article written by her as well, it was quite interesting as she did interview a few people who worked at Birkenau. Openly forgave Mengele as well, wishing the man was still alive so she could ask him questions that have bugged her her whole life since then.
PS. Don't get me wrong, the man was a loyal Nazi, right up to the day he died. From letters and correspondence found from the post war years. His attitude toward Jews in general was still, "Jews are bad." One personal letter found he even mocked Holocaust survivors. But then again the mocking could of been personal, being from what I said earlier, ie if he wasn't a literal Doctor Frankenstein and the stores are mostly made up, you'd be pretty mocking yourself likely. But honestly, I think it's deeper rooted then that. Definitely I know his Journals did talk about Eugenics from time to time. His medical degree did revolve around Eugenics so it makes sense.
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