In most research labs throughout the world, you will find things that will turn a layman’s stomach. It simply can’t be helped.
Research requires asking questions and finding answers on how to cure grizzly diseases, make fuel using things that would gag a maggot.
The sights and smells sometimes just the thought of the contents inside the research labs frighten even the bravest men and women.
But there times when even the most hardened researcher will find him or herself appalled. For the researchers at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich , things that they have seen every day for years that are so familiar that most of them don’t even notice them any more. At least that was true until the lab learned what they actually were.
Like many research labs that deal with the human condition, the Munich lab had specimens of brains, hearts and assorted body parts. The difference is that the researchers at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute found out the old specimens they had lying around were from the heinous experiments of Nazi Josef Mengele, the Butcher of Auschwitz.
The research committee has already started to identify some of the victims from whom the samples were taken with the goal of eventually interring them in a mass grave.
The institute published on its website: ‘We are embarrassed by these findings, and the blemish of their discovery in the archives.
‘We will update the public with any further information that comes to light with complete transparency.’
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Israel, had not been aware of the existence of the samples.
Professor Dan Machman, director of the International Centre for Holocaust Research at the museum, told an Israeli radio station: ‘It’s surprising, although not completely. We know that experiments were conducted and that not everything was erased and buried.