Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, and was born in Gunzburg, Germany. He had a loving father named Karl Mengel and a mother Walburga Mengele, as well as two brothers Karl jr. Mengele and Alois Mengele. As a kid he grew up fine like any normal kid. He was somewhat popular in his town and very intelligent. Later in life he attended Frankfurt University and majored in philosophy. There he met his mentor Dr. Otmar Von Verschuer who had a high interest in twins. This is when he married his wife Irene Schoenbein in 1939. During the war Germany had a draft and Josef happened to one of the men. While in war he was wounded and was not allowed to be in the military so he was sent home. Instead of doing nothing he worked at Kaiser Wilhelm institute for Anthropology which happened to be directed by Verschuer. With Josef still being apart of the SS army he was promoted to captain and was transferred to Auschwitz. …show more content…
He was given the choice of who dies in the gas chambers. He was supreme leader everyone feared him. Josef was Adolfs final plan to wipe out the weak jews and use the strong ones for labor till they die then it's good riddance to the jews. At this age (32) he even killed 750 women because they were sick. Something happened to make his smart mind go crazy. But he didn't stop at killing adults he killed children without hesitation. At the camp if you weren't 5 foot 2 inches you would be killed that goes for adults and children. Apparently Dr. Otmars obsession with twins rubbed off on Josef becuase at the time he was at Auschwitz he experimented on all the twin that arrived. With the right to kill in his experiments he went full in on doing horrible things on them. While doing horrible operations to all twins he also treated them amazingly. He gave them extra rations and overall just acted nicer to
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.
What do you think of when you hear the familliar name, Dr. Seuss? You are probably thinking of "The Cat in the Hat," "Horton Hears a Who," and "Yurtle the turtle."However, Dr. Seuss did more than writting children's books. He had also used his talents to help fight in WWII by drawing political cartoons, making annimated training films, and other political propiganda. Thanks to him, the public was aware of WWII's affects and what they can do to help fight from home. Without knowing this, how could we have had public support and, without public support, it would have been a much more difficult task to win the war.
When Hitler came to power, things changed in Europe. Adolf spread Concentration camps around Europe. He used a system for the killings. The prisoners could get shot to death, buried alive, sent to crematorium, or sent to the gas chambers. Most of this happened in Auschwitz. Josef Mengele selected prisoners for the gas chambers in Auschwitz. He also would do cruel experiments on prisoners (mainly twins). He was called the Angel of Death for his cruel and disgusting experiments. “He enlisted in the Nazi stormtroopers in 1993 and joined the newly founded institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene the next year.” (Mengele
Many people believed that having imperialism in there nation would cease the subjective problems. As a very forceful supporter of imperialism, Cecil Rhodes stated “My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem... we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population to provide new markets for the goods produced in factories and mines. The empire as I have always said is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialist. ” (doc 3) before I explain why imperialism was needed so badly, not only in Great Britain but Japan first I will explain the meaning. Google states that “a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.”
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” This quote by Josef Mengele speaks to his time spent as part of the Holocaust. Historically, many may also know him as the Angel of Death. He is infamous for the inhumane experiments he did on the Jewish children during the Holocaust.
In April of 1943, he became an SS captain and this soon led to Mengele's transfer to Auschwitz, on May 30, 1943. Josef Mengele became known as the “Angel of Death” at Auschwitz, because of his cruelty and cold personality. Mengele had special interests in a variety of human oddities. Among these some of the more grisly and mundane included differentiation in eye color, heredity in identical twins, people with abnormalities such as dwarfism, and pregnant women.
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".
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
“He cut into me, without anesthetic,...The pain was indescribable. I felt every slice of the knife. Then I saw my kidney pulsating in his hand. I cried like a madman, I cried out the prayer; “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one...And I prayed to die, that I might not suffer this agony any more.” (Hall). This was said by a ‘patient’ of Dr. Josef Mengele, Mr. Yitzhak Ganon. Mr. Ganon was of the survivors of the inhumane experiments that took place in Auschwitz by the hand of the abominable man that is Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was one of the most infamous men associated with the Holocaust, his cruel experiments on twins, jews, gypsies, and the other being held at Auschwitz made him widely known for his cruelty, warranting him the title of “The Angel of Death".
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.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, and was the fourth of six children horn to his mother and father Alois Hitler, and Klara Plozl. While Hitler was a child, he clashed constantly with his very harsh father, who also didn’t approve of his sons interest in the fine arts as a career. He also showed an early
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
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 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
discovered and developed ibuprofen. There was a team dedicated to its development, the leaders were Stewart Adams, and his colleagues John Nicholson and Colin Burrows. They first started working on it in the 1950s, to help treat arthritis. Adams and his a associates uncovered a class of compounds, phenylalkanoic acids they acquired analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory properties. It involved ibuprofen, or isobutylphenyl propionic acid. Ibuprofen was first tested on cats and rats. The tests showed that ibuprofen had no impact not the cardiovascular system, nor did it have an unfavorable impact in the respiratory system. After that ibuprofen experienced substantial clinical tests. Trials were done on people that have arthritis, hyperpyrexia, and lumbago. It showed that most of them that received a daily dose of 800 milligrams- 1200 milligrams had remarkable improvement. They had a reduction of pains in their joints, stiffness, joint swelling, and symptoms of carditis. Ibuprofen was patented in the earlier part of 1961, but it was not sold until 1969. Ibuprofen was approved by the FDA, Food and Drug Administration, in 1974 and sold int the USA that year. Ibuprofen is a widely know over the counter drug, but man other drugs are the same except they