Josef Mengele Accomplishments

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

Before you know it, you are standing in front of the man with the baton. Which way will he point, left or right. Those were the thoughts of many jews as they came face to face with the famed Dr. Mengele. Dr. Mengele alone killed over 600,000 jews. Other than Hitler initiating the genocide and being responsible for the deaths, Dr. Mengele by far sentenced the most jews to death.

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, spent 30 years on the run from officials and was never caught(“After”). Josef Mengele was a German doctor. He conducted experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. He was also a war criminal after the ending of the war. Josef Mengele intensified WWII in many ways, and this will be shown through his life, in Auschwitz, and in South America.

At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele nicknamed, “ The Angel of Death” was an experienced doctor that experiments on kids and other people, for example, he injected some serum into a kids eye to see if the eye would change color and most of his experiments didn't have any anesthesia so his patients would feel a lot of pain.

Josef Mengele, a demoralized Nazi doctor and scientist is known for his frightful human experiments during the holocaust. Mengele generally studied and examined twin children and other human experimentation. Due to these events, Josef Mengele's nickname was "The Angel of Death".

He goined the nazi party in 1937 and the ss in 1938. He liked twins he liked to do stuff to one then studie how it affected them. Most people he tested usually died and if they weren't yet dead. They would be in a lot of pain. The expirements were harsh and brutal. (Josef Mengele) https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060

(Spitz 61). He also had a large amount of influence in the camps and managed many of the gas chamber programs (Doctors of the Holocaust). For instance, in one case where he learned that there was an infestation of lice in a section of the camp, he simply had everyone in that section killed using the gas chambers (Josef Mengele, Angel of Death). Mengele, along with a total of fifteen doctors who were found guilty in the Doctors Trial portion of the Nuremberg trials, were the people responsible for the horrific events that occurred in the Nazi laboratories. The worst of these doctors included Mengele himself, Dr. Carl Clauberg, Dr. Herta Oberheuser, and Dr. Karl Brandt.

Mengele was cruel and unapologetic. What he did, he believed he did in the name of Germany and science. Perhaps this lack of remorse and guilt is what is most intriguing about him. Mengele had an eventful life from his early years, to what he did in the Holocaust, to the time after the Holocaust was over.

Josef Mengele. He originally was part of the nazi party and was gonna be a soldier, but then he decided that he was gonna join the SS and be a doctor. That’s when his real career began, he started by treating the people of Auschwitz. But he wasn't the only physician at the camp, he was joined by doctor Eduard Wirths. In an article about Josef it talks about what he did before he was the chief camp physician “Mengele began his career at Auschwitz in the spring of 1943 as the medical officer responsible for Birkenau's “Gypsy camp”(ushmm)” . It only took Mengele a little while till he started using his power has chief physician to do experiments on the people. He would put chemicals and solutions in his body and see how they would react to it. He was famous for his research with twins, he would inspect the twins in order to trace the genetic origins of various diseases. He was never scared of killing his patients because he knew that he would always have more to “play” with, in an article about him it says “At Auschwitz, with full license to maim or kill his subjects, Mengele performed a broad range of agonizing and often lethal experiments with Jewish and Gypsy twins, most of them children(ushmm)”.He earned the name “Angel of Death” or “White Angel” because he was responsible for killing so many people through his

He was the eldest son of Karl Mengele in 1935, Josef earned a Ph.D. in physical anthropology from the University of Munich. In January 1935 Josef joined a scientist by the name of Otmar von Verschuer who was well known that he was interested in twins. In 1937 Josef joined the Nazi party, It was the same year he got his medical degree. In 1940 Josef volunteered in the war and joined the medical side of the war. On January 1943 Josef was wounded and returned back to Germany. On May 30, 1943, Josef was transferred to Auschwitz. With this brief history of Joseph Mengele let's look to see why he got the title of ¨The Angel of Death¨.

The holocaust was created because of a man’s twisted dream of a perfect human race. Adolf Hitler wanted a master race of blond-haired and blue-eyed Germans that he dubbed Aryans. In order to make this dream possible, he had to eliminate the people who didn’t fit that bill and somehow increase the population of the people who he saw as strong and perfect. Much of this was centered on medical science and human experimentation by power-hungry doctors. Probably one of the most famous doctors involved in these heinous experiments was named Josef Mengele. In 1935, Josef went to the University of Munich and earned his Ph.D. in physical anthropology. In January 1937, he became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, a scientist well-known for his research in twins.

Many know the role of a doctor as someone who provides help for others when they are in need, but during the Holocaust one doctor was not known as someone who helped the people in need. Dr. Josef Mengele, who was a research scientist during the Holocaust, conducted many gruesome experiments on twins, kids, men, and women. Dr. Josef Mengele studied anthropology at the University of Munich in 1935, where he also earned his Ph.D. In January, 1937, Dr. Josef Mengele went to study at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt. At the institute, Dr. Josef Mengele became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who was known for his research on twins. In the same year of 1937 Dr. Josef Mengele joined the Nazi party. The

a. Attention Getter: Josef Mengele, Angel of Death, the man that ordered the death of around 1.6 million people. Men, women, old, or young, no one was an exception. At the point of a finger they were sent to the gas chambers. Prisoners learned quickly that he was someone whose orders were to be followed without argument. Names such as Lord of Life and Death, Dr. Auschwitz and even God were commonly used by

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

In 1911, Karl and Walburga delivered a baby boy, Josef Mengele, in Gunzburg, Germany. While studying medicine and anthropology, he developed an interest in genetics. His experimental ideas sprouted from these interests. Mengele made his presence known at the camps he