The World - News from Feb. 5, 1985
Survivors of Dr. Josef Mengele’s pseudo-medical experiments at Auschwitz recalled how the Nazi death-camp doctor chose his victims. “We were selected like potatoes,†Zerah Taub said during the first of three days of testimony before a Jerusalem conference organized by former camp inmates. Mengele, seeking ways of manipulating genes to create blue-eyed blonds for a Nazi “super race,†would stand like Napoleon as he selected his victims--one hand on his chest and the other brushing a stick across his boots, Taub, now an Israeli resident, recalled.
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