 They didn't really help them. Penicillin went to some, and others it didn't, like 400 of them. It was terrible. So that means that those men thought that they were being treated for syphilis and they would be okay, and they passed it on to their wives, their lovers, and they got it, and then their children did too. Dr. John Cutler. Dr. John Cutler was the Mengele.