Essay On Josef Mengele

Joseph Mengele was born on March 16,1911 in Gunzburg, Bavaria, the eldest of three sons of Karl and Walburga Mengele. He grew up in a devoutly catholic home that assembled considerable wealth in a short time. His father was a industrialist who owned a local plant that manufactured farming equipment. His fathers company flourished greatly by the time Josef was born. As a child, Josef saw little of his father, and hardly more of his mother. While Karl went off to fight in the war, Walburga was left in charge

Elie never saw his mother and sister again (Wiesel 32). Dr. Mengele was almost always in charge of these selections. He preferred to have one every two weeks. Jews were immediately ordered to “[continue] walking until [they] came to a crossroads. There, standing in the middle of it, though [they] didn't know it then, was Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele” (Wiesel 34). Selection involved looking at a jews physical stature and taking note of their age and profession. If a Jew was a craftsman, he often lived a better life than the others. However if a jew was old and frail, he was sent to the gas chamber. For many of the Jews, when they first arrived at Auschwitz, they had no idea what was going on. Many arrived and were “told to line up and be evaluated” (wiesel 31). However, many veteran prisoners would tell newcomers just what to say and do to survive. When lined up, “a kapo told my father and I to say we were 16 and 38” (wiesel 31). At this first and confusing selection, although they didnt know it, it was the last time families saw each other. For the most part, men and teens were sentenced to work while women, children,

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

Joseph Mengele joined the Nazi party in 1937, a year later he became an SS. He volunteered his medical

Born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg, Germany was Josef Mengele. He was amongst the eldest son of his father, Karl Mengele, who owned a chain of prosperous farming implements. Josef attended Munich University where he later earns his Ph.D in 1935. After his graduation, he applied to the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. When working there, he soon became the assistant of Dr. Otmar Von Vershuer which was very popular for his research on twins.

Mengele. Dr. Mengele was a German officer at Auschwitz and was often referred to as the “Angel of Death” (Gutman, 2). He is known for his horribly unethical experiments performed on prisoners and immense number of bodies killed in Auschwitz. Mengele treated the majority of his patients ruthlessly, with no remorse, and as objects for his destruction. He was also known for his bad temper and was seen beating prisoners with metal poles, burning them alive, and shooting them. The only patients he treated less horrifically were twins, which he found to be enticing. Mengele would provide them with clean clothes and regular meals in order to strengthen them, and once they were healthy he would perform horrific surgeries on them (Schmittroth, 315). How Dr. Mengele treated the prisoners in Auschwitz would have an extensive influence on the difficulties they had

Gas chambers were among the many horrific killing and torture methods used in Auschwitz that had been refined over time by the Nazis to exterminate as many people as they possibly could. The people taken to Auschwitz were often killed in gas chambers on the spot after being told they would get a shower. Most of the people who survived had to participate in hard labor and undergo selections often to see if they would get to live a bit longer. However, many of these people, became very emaciated and ill. These people were deprived of their needs until they were so disfigured that the Nazis sent them to the gas chambers and after that the crematoriums. Dr. Mengele also performed inhumane experiments on people of all ages and genders (Auschwitz, 1). On top of that, few managed to survive in Auschwitz,. As stated in Yad Vashem’s article, “ In Auschwitz-Birkenau, more than 1,100,000 Jews, 70,000 Poles, 25,000 Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) and some

Mengele made a lot of sets of twins his guinea pigs and Eva and Miriam fell under that category. Someone once asked Eva, How did you feel while you were being used as a guinea pig by Josef Mengele? My answer is that the emotional scars were so deep that only now, more than 40 years later are we attempting to face our past that it will always hurt to remember that were reduced to the lowest form of existence. We were treated like animals--- we were his guinea pigs (Caplan).” Right now in time during this camp all the twins had to keep their minds off of things, so they would knit. They used one of the twin’s sweater and each person got a turn, after that one person was done they would unravel it and hand it to the next person. Just because they did this did not mean that danger and death could just drift away. One day one of the twin’s mom passed in a cart all going to their resting place, and this scared Eva (Kor and Buccieri 47). Eva could not think about her family at this point it would distract her from taking care of herself and Miriam. After all this time Miriam was becoming sick because of all of the experiments done to her, and Eva wanted to take care of her so Eva could become stronger. Because they were twins, “they were family, we did not let go. At Auschwitz dying was easy, surviving was a full time

(Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) “The “Law against overcrowding in German schools and Universities” restricted the number of Jewish children in Jewish schools. (www.projetaladin.org) The “Law against overcrowding in German schools and universities”, affected the Jewish children and their friends. (www.projetaladin.org) The children started to loose relationships and became distant from friends. (www.projetaladin.org) When the children entered the camps, Dr. Herta Oberhauser would kill children with oils. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) “She had killed then with evipan injections as well.” (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) Just like Oberhauser, Mengele would inject the children too. Mengele would inject them with chloroform into the children’s hearts. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) After Mengele was done with the children, he would kill them himself with no shame or hesitation. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) Out of all of the children in the Holocaust, 1,000,000 children died. (Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk) These children died from ways that you may not even be able to imagine.

You would have to be checked by doctors to see if you were fit for work. Young Children, elderly, pregnant women, and those classified as unfit for work were sent to the showers. The showers were really gas chambers, this is the reason for many people dying. Doctors would also do experiments on the prisoners many would die from this. They would test twins to see if everything about them were actually the same. One of the experiment was to see if the twins could switch eyes and still be able to see. Another way people would die was from being burned in ovens. There was no “going easy” in Auschwitz.

Born into a wealthy family, he was also brought up strictly Catholic. Dr. Mengele, full name Joseph Rudolf Mengele, was given the nickname ‘The Angel of Death’ for a reason. Mengele chose to study philosophy in the city of Munich and he also entered radical ideology from Alfred Rosenberg. When he was 20, he joined the Stahlhelm, and then in 1933 he chose to apply for SA and party membership. Once he was accepted into the Nazi party, he was labeled the chief doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp. He studies at the University of Frankfurt and joined the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in 1934. (History.co) The name ‘Angel of Death’ from his extraordinary experiments, which had taken place in the form many different methods. Methods such as pressure chambers, castration, drugs and freezing were popular. (Louis Bülow) Many had cause fatality from the bizarre actions that had taken place. He had a fascination with twins. Mengele focused on children for his experimentation. He would be extra kind to them, make them trust him. This made the children listen to him, thinking that they would get something good out of it such as food or toys. The children, especially twins, did not know what was ahead of them. They didn’t know the ‘objectives’ of his experiments. Mengele has a pathology lab where he performed autopsies on the dead twins that had been built next to the crematorium. As for

Shockingly, Mengele's did not actually scare the children. He was known to appear with pockets full of candy and chocolates, to pat them on the head, talk with them, and sometimes even play. Many of the children called him "Uncle Mengele. "The twins were given brief instruction in makeshift "classes". The children were not required to do hard work and had jobs like being a messenger.

Specific purpose: To inform the audience about Josef Mengele, a doctor in Auschwitz and a psychological quandary.

The life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s life and post-mortem fate could be divided into three different chapters. His pre-war life and life during World War II was one of privilege and freedom to satisfy his perverse desire to perform bizarre and mostly useless medical

Luckily for Eva Kor and Dr. Mengele, not only did the twin girl survive, but she forgave Mengele – perhaps it is people like these who truly frighten Mengele back into hiding. Among other experiments, Mengele also decided to do some research on a disease called Noma that was rare, but usually occurred in gypsies. “At one point, Mengele had two of the Gypsy children killed so that he could examine their detached heads.” (Cefrey 87) It is important to note that Mengele preferred children as patients or guinea pigs; while the reason is mysterious it could be assumed due to children being naïve or easier to obtain than adults (especially twins) and could be easily ripped away from parents.