The Holocaust was a horrible time in Germany where millions of people were killed simply because they were not Aryan. The group responsible for this was called the Nazis and was led by a man named Adolf Hitler. Hitler's main target was the Jews. In fact, the Nazis were responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews, which is known as one of the greatest genocides ever seen. To do this, Jews were taken to places called concentration camps where they were detained, tortured, and ultimately killed in gas chambers. The conditions in these camps were horrible. People had to sleep on top of each other and food was minimal. The result was that people died simply because they caught a disease. Not only were the conditions bad, but people were tortured, beaten and starved. The Nazis gave a whole new meaning to the word cruelty. One of the cruelest things the Nazis did was use Jews for experiments, where people were essentially test dummies for Dr. Mengele, who was the Nazi chief physician and nicknamed "the angel of death. Upon his arrival in the concentration camp. of Auschwitz, the most popular of all, Mengele would be given a role in the selection process where people entering the camps were chosen based on their physical appearance whether they could work or whether they would be gassed and killed. Mengele's role was to seek out the perfect test subjects for his experiments. These subjects were then taken elsewhere and the others, who were not chosen, were saved from the torture these people suffered. Although they were not tortured by the Nazis, they were indeed tortured by Mengele in the form of experiments, which is actually considered worse than torture. Menge... middle of paper ...... that a person's race is superior to all others, is the embodiment of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Works Cited Berenbaum, Micheal. “Anatomy of the Auschwitz extermination camp.” Google Books. Ed. Israel Gutman. Np, and Web. April 11, 2014. “A Companion to Applied Ethics.” » Google Books. Ed. RG Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman. Np, and Web. April 11, 2014.Moe, Kristine. “Should we cite Nazi research data? The Hastings Center Report14.6 (1984): 5-7. JSTOR. Internet. April 14, 2014.Muller-Hill, Benno. “Genetics of susceptibility to tuberculosis: Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz.” Np, August 2001. Web. Posner, Gerald L. and John Ware. Mengele: The Complete Story. Np: np, ndGoogle Books. Internet. April 11. 2014. Spitz, Vivien. “Doctors from Hell: The Horrifying Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans.” Google Books.Np, nd Web. April 14. 2014.