The American author Robert Jay Lifton notes that Mengele's published works were in keeping with the scientific mainstream of the time, and would probably have been viewed as valid scientific efforts even outside Nazi Germany.
O autor estadounidense Robert Jay Lifton indicou que as obras publicadas de Mengele non se desviaban moito da corrente científica principal da época, e poderían estar probablemente consideradas como esforzos científicos válidos incluso fóra das fronteiras da Alemaña nazi.