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Mengele’s children This story shows the horrific workings of Dr. Josef Mengele, the nazi scientist who operated and experimented on sets of twins in Auschwitz, the death camp. His life and work is portrayed here from three different perspectives- a member of the SS serving in Auschwitz, one of Mengele’s twins and the man himself. Uncle Mengele, they call him. He is more than their uncle. He is their Messiah, their saviour. But mostly, he is their torturer- a monster. But he is also a genius, a man on a breakthrough. When he first arrived he caused quite a stir; an educated, experienced, medical researcher with a mission to plumb the depths of the human mystery, and to extract the secrets of human genetics from the living twin specimens at his disposal; the protégé of Professor von Verschuer, funded with a grant for research of human genetics. He was supposed to bring great things to our gruesome kingdom of human suffering. And, in a way, he did. I am sorry for my forwardness. My name is not important, but what I am is. I am, was, a murderer. More specifically, I am a member of the SS, and my post is hell. My occupation is not one you would think many would yearn for, and not one I ever thought I would be. But they do. And I am. Although this is not my story, you must know that I try. I do, I really do. I try to do good, but when you are surrounded by evil, what is good and what is good for the Fatherland and for everything you stand for may not always be the same. So you have to make a choice. And I’ve made mine and I’m sticking to it. Even though I know in doing so I have condemned my soul. No, you don’t understand. You can’t understand and you never will. Not unless you have done what I have done, have had hundreds of broken people imploring you with their last breath to save them, when you know that they will all die the same, horrific death. There is no mercy here. Except for the twins. That’s where Mengele comes in. Mengele- with his dark, serious eyes and impe