Mengele - Úplný životní příběh – Posner Gerald L. (2019)

In the room next to the autopsy hall, fourteen Romani children waited and cried bitterly. Doctor Mengele did not speak a word to us and prepared ten and five-milliliter syringes. He pulled out Evipal from one box, and from another, chloroform in twenty-milliliter ampoules, and placed them on the table. Then they brought in the first twin, a fourteen-year-old girl. Mengele ordered me to undress her and lay her on the table. He then injected Evipal into the vein of her right arm. As soon as the girl fell asleep, he felt for her left heart chamber and injected 10 ml of chloroform. After a small twitch, the girl was dead. Mengele then had her carried to the morgue. In the same way, all the twins were killed throughout the night. Josef Mengele was a surviving symbol of Hitler's final solution, embodying his horrors—cold, impersonal, and always perfectly prepared for the protracted deadly rituals, the devilish selections in which the young SS doctor regularly participated during the twenty-one months spent in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The memory of the man of slender build with neatly styled hair in a dark green, precisely ironed coat, with a thoroughly shaven face and a cap adorned with the SS death's head tilted stylishly to the side remains etched in the minds of those who survived his...