Rosa Castro
106 Reading Lab
10/18/17
Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele was a Doctor and a Official from Germany he was know as the angel of death. He was born in march 16th 1911. Mengele was the eldest of three brothers and he was always a good student. In January of 1937 was assistant of doctor Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer. He was a scientist who studied genetics which had a great interest in twins. Mengele then wrote a thesis about Cleft lip and cleft palate, qualified very well which made Josef get a doctorate in medicine. Year later mengele married Irene Schönbein with whom she contracted her only son named Rolf. During the year 1937 and 1938 Mengele joined the Nazi party and also the SS. Some months after the Second World War in 1949 Mengele volunteered for the medical service of the Walffen-SS (They were the elite fighting body of the Schutzstaffel). Then sent a request for the service of the transfer to the concentration
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For example, typhus among others to see how his body reacted to a twin. When one twin died as a consequence of the experiments, the other was killed with chloroform and thus able to make comparatives post mortem reports to see how each body reacts. The mengele experiments on the eyes were to try to change the color of the iris by injecting chemicals. After these procedures many were blind or lost one eye or both. Even one a witness who said that mengele in their attempt to create Conjoined twins sewed up two twins but then both died by the gangrene after so many days of suffering. In addition, mengele was responsible for the public health measures in the camp. for example, when there was an outbreak of typhus in the barracks of women, 600 women were gassed and fumigated the barracks. After the war ended, mengele run away and lived in Latin America with false identifications. Josef died on February 7, 1979 of an attack while he was swimming in
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Josef Mengele had studied Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics. While working in Auschwitz, he had worked with identical and fraternal twins to trace the genetic origin of various diseases along with other experiments (“Josef Mengele” Holocaust Encyclopedia). Most officers or German task force had a hard time with this job, but Josef Mengele did not (Minster). He enjoyed separating those on the ramp and would often appear “off duty” searching through the crowd looking for twins to experiment on (“Josef Mengele” Holocaust Encyclopedia). He always had a reason for what he did. More horrific experiments included Mengele injecting chloroform into a set of twin’s hearts and it killing them instantly. He would then dissect the bodies and look at the genetic structures. Dr. Josef Mengele had also sown twins together to make Siamese Twins (“Angel of Death”). There are photos and documentation that proves that this was an experiment he did perform and was very unsuccessful. Approximately three thousand twins passed through
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
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¨.
Acts of a Perpetrator, Josef Mengele To be a perpetrator, usually you are mean, or evil to ones around you, such as in the Holocaust; the Nazi’s were perpetrators. Josef Mengele is an SS Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz who fulfilled his role as a perpetrator, who seemed to enjoy being a brutal man. He had to have been an emotionally strong man, to send prisoners to meet their last breath, face to face. In the historical event of the “Holocaust”, Josef Mengele shares his experiences of providing life or death for the prisoners.
Joseph Mengele joined the Nazi party in 1937, a year later he became an SS. He volunteered his medical
were not tall enough to the gas chamber. Dr. Mengele would draw a line between 150 and 156 centimeter which is about five feet tall and if a child was not tall enough they were killed. He performed both physical and mental experiments. Some experimental surgeries included transfusions of blood from one twin to another, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. He made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, and incestuous impregnations. Dr. Josef was especially interested in twins. In one of his experiments he took two twins sewing them back to back in attempt to create Siamese twins. This man killed approximately over three thousand twins. But even with all the evidence proving this man
Josef Mengele is known as the angel of death.What did he do to become that and what did he do to get that name and how did everything Josef has done effect his family?Josef Mengele was born on March 16,1911.He was the oldest out of his siblings.When Josef grew up, he got a PhD from the university of Munich in 1935.Before he was a doctor in the Holocaust.Josef joined the military for a short time because Josef got injured and he could not come back to military for that reason.Not too long after that he joined the ‘national socialist german workers’ in 1938.That was when he wanted to be a medical service for the holocaust.
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
His cruel accomplishment was achieved by being the main chief provider or the gas chambers, as mentioned in the article by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition, experimentation in individuals added a tremendous amount to the deceased population under Mengele’s supervision. To sad, Josef Mengele ‘’…sent approximately 400,000 people to their deaths in the camps gas chambers, and personally murdered several more…’’ (www. nww.2m.com) . This statistic demonstrates the towering amount of people that Mengele assassinated. Furthermore, proof Mengele was an inhumane person included the fact that he would not only kill his victims, but, leave them in their painful state for more time than necessary. He did this to make sure none of the victims could be alive. As explained, ‘’Although victims died within 15 minutes while in the gas chambers, the SS men routinely waited half an hour before turning on the fans… ‘’ (www.guardian.com). As evident by the information provided, Josef Mengele was truly a monstrous
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
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The act of Dr. Josef Mengele as a human act were evaluated, and we can truly and completely identity it as bad/evil. For a human act to be good, both the objective/purpose and the intention of the person should be good. If one or both of it would be evil, it is considered as a bad human act. Both of the purpose and intention of Dr. Mengele were both evil, so the result of his actions were evil. Many people have suffered under him just to satisfy his curiosity and to complete his experiments. He has no mercy, especially to all the twins he had experimented.
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