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

Dr. Mengele was by far the most feared SS Officer in the death camp of Auschwitz. His fellow Officers and inmates even gave him the nickname of the “The Angel of death”. As soon as Jews from all parts of Europe arrived at the platform, the first selection began. Men to the left, women and children to the right, and as they “arrived at the platform, they shouted for women

In 1937, after the rise of the Nazi party Josef Mengele exceeded in the SS with a medical degree. He soon was drafted into the army to fight in WW2, but was injured and not suitable for combat.

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eye­wit­ness Account by Dr. Mik­lós Nyis­zlI is a non-fiction mem­oir of a Jew­ish Hun­gar­ian med­ical doc­tor who per­formed alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz from 1944-45 to conduct “research” on Jews. This book is a lot to swallow and doesn’t beat around the bush, it’s straight to the point.

custody, which led him to going to South America. Research has found that a small town in Brazil, where Mengele was hiding at one point had a large number of Aryan race twins. Some believe that he might have found out how to create more people for the “superior” race. According to Stockton, there was medical practice in Buenos Aires, where he specialized in performing illegal abortions. This also shows how he didn’t care about anyone felt and that he didn’t feel bad about killing. When he was running away from getting incarcerated or executed, he suffered some health conditions because of his fear of being found. He would eat his mustache hair and “a hairball grew in his intestines that nearly killed him”( Wiedemann and Glusing). He became depressed and broke when hiding. In police archives in Sao Paulo, Brazil found letters and a diary that showed that Mengele had no regrets. This shows that he character was as cruel and heartless as his work in Auschwitz was. Given these points, Mengele was scared for his life to pay the consequences, yet he didn’t regret anything he did in

Mengele fought in the Russian campaign in January 1943 but he was badly wounded and was considered unfit for frontline military service. He went back to Germany and started working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, directed by his former mentor von Verschuer. He was given a promotion to the rank of SS captain in April 1943. When he recovered from his wound, Mengele volunteered to work in concentration camps. He was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and arrived on May 30, 1943.

They described there misery that they encountered, as they suffered each day. One of the twins would experience pain that was more than the beatings that took. Josef Mengele had always found a way to gain power over these innocent

About four years later he admitted to the SS, Schutzstaffel (20th Century History). He started off in Wehrmacht were he participated in basic training to fight in World War II (20th Century History). July of 1939 he married Irene Schoenbein (20th Century History).Mengele served as a mountain trooper in the 5th SS panzer “Viking Division” (“Josef Mengele”). In 1940, Josef was put in the medical field as a Battalion Surgeon SS captain (20th Century History). In this field Josef Mengele was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class (Lynott). Mengele, in 1943 was wounded at Donets River and declared unfit for battle (“Josef Mengele”). Mengele later found himself at Auschwitz where the cruel and terrible things took

“..On May 25th, 1943, Mengele sent 1035 gypsies suspected of typhus to the gas chamber, and on May 25th and 26th he spared those Gypsies who were German while he sent approximately 600 others to be gassed.';(p. 25 par.1)

During the Holocaust German physicians did countless experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. They divided the experiments into three categories. The first category was aimed at facilitating the survival of people in the military, physicians conducted high-altitude experiments. The test was done by using using a low-pressure chamber, to determine the maximum altitude from which they could parachute to safety if they were in danger. Other experiments were freezing prisoners and they tried to find a treatment for hypothermia. The second category of experimentation was aimed at developing and treatments for injuries and illnesses. Scientists tested medications to prevent and treat of contagious diseases. The third category of medical experimentation was used to try and treat the racial and ideological tenets of the Nazi worldview. Joseph Mengele conducted medical experiments on twins to compare them. He also did test to determine how different "races" withstood different diseases. The testing was very cruel and was used to be done to try and find an inexpensive way for better

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

The main reason Mengele was hired by the SS, was to find and discover the secrets of heredity.(11)The Nazi army believed that with the knowledge they could find, success rate of them winning the war would triple!. Though this knowledge had to be gained through countless amounts of tragic experiments and tests.While he was living in his various labs throughout Auschwitz, he had one he loved the most, the surgery lab. Most of the labs were positioned around crematories for easy access to remove bodies after surgeries.(11) There was said to have been over 3,000 twins killed throughout his time there. Some of the most common surgeries were eye testing, and body transplants. Twins and their genetics seemed to be there key to finding their target. Countless amounts of experiments occurred, and theres a especially one tragic one, that exceeds all the others. A boy named Tibi, was one of thousands that died there. His sister today tells his story, she says, “They forced blood transfusions between me and my brother. We had amputations and countless amounts of bio-medical tests done to use. My brother however felt this worse than me. Mengele practiced organ removals and amputations, just for testing on

Much of our early knowledge of Mengele's activities at Auschwitzis provided by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a prisoner-physician who assisted Mengele under duress, and then published his experiences, initially in his native Hungarian, in 1946. (His Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account appeared in English in 1960.) Josef Mengele had hoped to use the “research” he had gained in Auschwitz in order to produce his Habilitation, a second, post-doctoral, dissertation required for admission to a university faculty as a professor in German-speaking lands. He never accomplished this objective. January 1945, the Soviet Army advanced through western Poland, and Mengele fled Auschwitz.

Dr. Mengele, or you may know him as the “Angel of Death”, was a infamous physician in the Nazi regime. Born on March 16, 1911, trouble brewed in Gunzburg, Germany. In his life, he joined the Nazi regime, he tortured concentration camp prisoners, in the name of science, and he managed to elude capture by running away to South America.

Once Mengele was old enough to attend college, he attended the college of Munich where he received his Ph. D. in philosophy ( Bulow ). He then attended Frankfurt University, receiving his medical degree the same year He joined the Nazi party in 1937 ( “Mengele” ). Josef Mengele joined the SS in 1938 at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he was chief of the gas chambers ( Bulow ). At the start of his career, a block where 750 women stayed was infested with lice. His solution to rid of this problem before it spread worse was to send them to the “showers,” which was