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
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
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.
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.
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".
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
“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.
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
“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".
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.
An infant was ripped from its mother’s womb and hurled into an oven at a German concentration camp named Auschwitz because it was not a twin. Another was killed by his own mother rather than letting it suffer in an experiment. Hundreds of thousands innocents were mercilessly sent to gas chambers where they met their death. The name of the evil and mad person responsible is Joseph Mengele, who was first a student, then a war hero, and finally an Auschwitz doctor. His birth on March 16, 1911, was one millions wished never happened. As the eldest son of a well-to-do Bavarian industrialist, he was expected to carry on the family business and run his father’s company in Germany. However, Joseph took the non-traditional
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
Dr. Josef Mengele was a highly unpopular Nazi doctor who performed many horrific operations which put many men, women and children to rest. He was a cruel man and he was fascinated with twins, yet with all the sickening experiments he escaped prosecution.
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