Blog #18

      The Nazis were infamous for their desire to create the perfect people. The Aryan race, as it was called, was the race of ideal men. Blond haired, blue eyes, many people know of the basic characteristics that Germany desired, despite the leader of the movement looking very different himself. Seeking to complete what they considered to be Nietzsche's Ubermensch, the Nazis systematically wiped out those they considered to be the opposite of their ideals. Although that part is well-known, little is known about how the horrors of how they tried to genetically engineer even more Aryans.

      Josef Mengele was a scientist who tried to discover a way to produce Aryans. Accurately named the Angel of Death, he specialized in his experiments on twins and children. His experiments were some of the darkest of the period. “Children were castrated, had limbs amputated, or their eyes injected with chemicals in an attempt to make them turn blue. One twin would be injected with typhus, then both would be killed and their organs compared.” (Bogod, 1155). Although some of them lack a clear purpose, having their eyes injected with chemicals has an obvious motive. If Mengele could find a way to successfully turn someone's eyes blue, that was one step closer towards perfecting the master race. Truly a more brutal method of trying to create a superhuman to be a supersoldier, the methods are only a step beyond the CIA's covert testing. Whereas the Nazis did kill several times as many, the CIA nevertheless did have a couple casualties.