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Josef Mengele Research Paper

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Rosa Castro
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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 …show more content…

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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