VILLAINS

HAVE YOU EVER HAD A FAVORITE VILLIAN? MY FAVS ARE THE JOKER IN THE LATEST BATMAN MOVIE AND SYLAR/GABRIEL FROM THE PHENOMENON THAT IS "HEROES". NOW, THESE CHARACTERS MAY BE THE TYPE WE ALL LOVE TO HATE OR, IN SOME WEIRD CASES, RELATE TO. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A RUN IN WITH A real VILLIAN OF MALICIOUS PROPORTIONS?
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN WILD FOR A MOMENT. NOW THINK BACK TO THE YEAR 1944. IMAGINE BEING TERRIFIED FOR YOUR LIFE AS YOU STRUGGLE TO BREATHE. YOU ARE IN A CATTLE CARE WITH 80 OTHER PEOPLE. IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE CONFUSION, YOU STILL FIND THE STRENGTH TO REMAIN CALM AS YOUR UNCERTAIN FUTURE GROWS CLOSER WITH EVERY SQUEAKY ROTATION OF THE WHEELS ON THE TRAIN. SOON YOU FEEL THE DEATH TRAIN SLOW AND THE HARSH VOICES OF THE SS, ORDERING YOU THROW OUT YOUR DEAD, AND HAND OVER ALL OF YOUR VALUABLES. THE SS ARE SCRUFFY LOOKING MEN, AS YOU LOOK INTO THE EMPTY EYES OF ONE, YOU ARE STRUCK ON THE TEMPLE AND YOU BLACK OUT. THANKFULLY, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN HAS TAKEN CARE OF YOU AND LED YOU INTO THE ENTRANCE OF A CAMP...AUCHWITZ-BIRKENAU. UPON ENTERING WITH A LARGE MASS OF PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T KNOW IT THEN, WERE BEING LED TO A FEIRY DEATH IN THE CREMATORIA, THE SS CALLED FOR TWINS. JUST AHEAD THERE IS A MAN, AN SS. HE IS DRESSED IMPECCABLY WITH A HINT OF A SMILE BEHIND HIS BEAUTIFUL, YET STRANGELY COLD EYES. WITH A WHITE GLOVED HAND, HE DIRECT THE MASSES TO THE LEFT. TO THE CREMATORIA. YOU FOLLOW THEM....UNTIL THE MAN SEES YOU. HE ORDERS THE SS TO BRING YOU TO HIM. HE SMILES AS HE SUBTLY HIDES HIS INTEREST IN YOU. HE ASKS YOU IF YOU ARE TRULY JEWISH. YOU ARE CONFUSED, WHY WOULD THIS POLITE MAN ASK YOU SUCH A QUESTION? YOU ANSWER YES. HE IS CURIOUS BECAUSE OF YOUR PERFECT ARYAN LOOKS. YOU HAVE GOLDEN BLOND HAIR WITH DEEP BLUE EYES. THE MAN ORDERS THE SS TO TAKE YOU TO THE BLOCK WHERE THE TWINS WERE BEING KEPT, ALTHOUGH YOU ARE NOT A TWIN. YOU HAVE JUST COME FACE TO FACE WITH THE ANGEL OF DEATH HIMSELF. JOSEF MENGELE IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE MOST MALICIOUS HACK TO HAVE EVER HID BEHIND THE TITLE OF MEDIAL PRACTITIONER. THE ANGEL OF DEATH HAD TAKEN A KEEN INTEREST IN YOU, AND FOR THE NEXT TO YEARS YOU ARE SUBJECTED TO THE MOST INHUMANE EXPERIMENTS EVER CONDUCTED IN THE NAME OF FRAUDULENT SCIENCE. FOR EXAMPLE JOSEF MEGELE PERFORMED EXPLORATORY OPEN HEART SURGERY ON YOU, WITHOUT ANESTHSIA, YOU UNEXPECTEDLY SURVIVED. HE INJECTED CHEMICALS IN OUR EYES AND TRIED TO CHANGE THEIR COLOR, THIS PROCEDURE LEFT YOU BLIND FOR WEEKS. YOU WERE CASTRATED, AGAIN WITHOUT ANESTHSIA. FINALLY, AFTER MONTHS OF EXTENSIVE EXPERIMENTS AND ENDLESS BLOOD DRAWING YOU BEG FOR DEATH. THE ANGEL OBLIGES. YOU ARE INTENTIONALLY EXPOSED TO TUBERCULOSIS, THEN THE DOCTOR INJECTED YOU WITH DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS TO TRY TO CURE YOU OF THE DISEASE, 3 DAYS LATER YOU DIE DUE TO COMPLICATIONS FROM YOUR OTHER SURGERIES AND THEN THE TB. NOW, ARE YOUR EYES STILL CLOSED? ARE YOU SCARED? THIS EXPERIENCE WAS MILD COMPARED TO THE OTHER SITUATIONS OF MENGELE'S TWINS. IT STILL AMAZES ME TODAY THAT PEOPLE CAN HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO SUCH EVIL, THEN TRY TO JUSTIFY IT IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE. JOSEF MENGELE FAILED AS A HUMAN BEING, HE DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE CONDSIDERED HUMAN. TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, MENGELE ESCAPED PROSECUTION FOR WAR CRIMES BY GOING TO SOUTH AMERICA, WHERE HE LATER DIED OF A STROKE WHILE SWIMMING. TO THIS DAY THE SURVIVING MENGELE TWINS LIVE WITH THE HORROR OF WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM. I SUGGEST YOU READ "CHILDREN OF THE FLAMES" IT IS A BOOK WHICH CHRONICLES THE EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY MENGELE AT BIRKENAU AND THE LIVES OF THE SURVIVING TWINS TODAY. YOU SHOULD ALSO LOOK AT MENGELE'S WIKIPEDIA PAGE--THE HEINOUS CRIMES EXTEND FURTHER THAN JUST TWINS.