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Josef Mengele Research Paper

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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

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