Heike Becker, University of the Western Cape
When the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp on 27 January 1945, among the prisoners left behind were a number of young twins. The surviving children and many more who had died were the subject of disturbing human experiments by Josef Mengele, a physician known as the "Angel of Death".
About 3,000 twins were selected from an estimated 1.3 million people who arrived at Auschwitz for Mengele's deadly "scientific" experiments. Only...