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". Born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg, Germany was Josef Mengele. He was amongst the eldest son of his father, Karl Mengele, who owned a chain of prosperous farming implements. Josef attended Munich University where he later earns his Ph.D in 1935. After his graduation, he applied to the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. When working there, he soon became the assistant of Dr. Otmar Von Vershuer which was very popular for his research on twins. In 1937, after the rise of the Nazi party Josef Mengele exceeded in the SS with a medical degree. He soon was drafted into the army to fight in WW2, but was injured and not suitable for combat. …show more content…
He was widely known for performing experimentation with amnesia, blood transfer, limb amputation, amnesia, removal of organs, and many more. After the war, he was named "The Angle of Death" due to how gruesome his experimentations were. After the war, Josef fled to Argentina. During that time Argentina was a safe haven for Nazi soldiers. During his time there, Mengele changed his identity and struggled to find a safe place to live. He moved from country, to country in constant fear of being caught in South America. He was well aware that there were bounties and war crimes on his head. Due to Josef's father's business, he had friends and chains that ran through South America. Josef used these connections to stay safe from not being caught. Josef then lived another 35 years without being caught or punished for his war crimes before he died on February 7, 1979. Mengele was supposedly swimming at a resort pool in Brazil, where he had a stroke and drowned in the
To fully apprehend Josef Mengele one must first understand his life and how certain events may have affected him. Josef Mengele was born in Gunzburg, Germany on March 15, 1911(McKale). He mother was Walburga Mengele and his father was Karl Mengele(“Life”). He was the eldest of three sons; Karl and Alois(“Life”). His father was a local industrialist and wanted him to work in his factory(“Life”). This might of made him upset because he wanted to be a doctor. Josef’s mother forced them to be devout Catholics(“Life”). He would often describe his mother as not capable of loving(“Life”). This might have caused some of his issues in his later life(“Life”). Josef was a good student but had an erratic personality(“Life”)(Posner). His erratic personality often scared prisoners of Auschwitz. He was as well a self-confident kid(“Life”).
Who was Dr. Joseph Mengele during the Holocaust? To some, he seemed a Doctor while others only saw death when his name was said. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, in Germany in Günzburg.
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
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.
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.
During his stay at Auschwitz he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death." When the trains arrived at Auschwitz they would sit i the cars for days before being herded out like cattle. After this hellish journey, the first thing that people saw when they left the cars was Josef Mengele, the Angel of Auschwitz standing in his immaculate SS uniform, shining boots, perfectly brushed and pressed shirt and pants, and glistening silver skulls.(Mengele156) He would perch there and would yell "left!" or "right!", left meaning a quick end as you headed to the gas chambers and right meant you were placed on a starvation diet and had to work as a slave. During this time in Auschwitz his first and only son, Rolf, was born on March 11, 1944. His moment of happiness in Auschwitz (his perverse perception of happiness) was short lived. In the middle of January in 1945 he fled Auschwitz and went to Grossen- Rosen camp. He then fled before the Russians liberated it on February 11, 1945. After fleeing Grossen-Rosen he was captured as a prisoner of war and held in a POW camp in Munich. He stole some papers from a fellow prisoner and the American Army released him not realizing he was part of the SS. During his life on the run he went under several aliases, these include;
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing.” This was spoken a head doctor to his Jewish inmates at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. He’s quite important in history, because of the countless deaths he authorized. Josef Mengele, “Angel of death,” greatly impacted history because of his participation in selection, his ruthless experiments and the killing of Jews.
Dr. Josef Mengele was one of the many infamous physicians who performed many inhuman experiments on prisoners without their consent. Many of the resulting experiments led to; death, trauma, disfigurement, or permanent disabilities. Dr. Mengele was chosen to instruct the inmates, conduct horrific experiments and crimes on inmates, but some survivors said there was a humane side to him.
Josef Mengele was born March 16, 1911. He was the eldest of three sons. Many think his mother is to blame for his evil acts in the concentration camps. His mom was
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911. Josef was the oldest of three sons in his Bavarian family, and they were strictly Catholic. He was popular and smart in his town. He went on to study philosophy, medicine, physical anthropology, hereditary biology, and racial hygiene. He became an assistant to Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who was a leading scientific figure.
Josef Mengele’s past is filled with disease, abuse, war, and overall horror. Mengele was born in the Bavarian village in Gunzburg Germany, on March 16, 1911. Josef’s mother Walburga is known to have abused her two sons at a very young age, and the workers who worked at her husband's, Josef’s father, factory. When
Josef Mengele was the eldest son of Karl and Walburga Mengele of Günzburg, Bavaria. Karl Mengele ran a machine tools factory and often put his
Some say that Josef Mengele’s experiments in the Nazi concentration camps were not worth the horror, while others argue that these experiments led to advancements in science and medicine. The early life of Josef Mengele was prosperous and could have had some influence on how and why he did his experiments. Josef Mengele was born March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany. He was the eldest of three sons.
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, as the eldest of what would eventually be three. His parents names were Walburga and Karl Mengele. For as horrid and terrifying as the experiments he would later perform were, Mengele had no terrible backstory, he was rich, witty person growing up whose father was a very successful businessman. Mengele got his first
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany, to Karl and Walburga Mengele. Very little is known about his childhood, except that he had a particular interest in the study of twins; however no one knew the reign of terror he would bring to the Germany. Fast forward to his college years, Mengele attends the University of Munich, which was the headquarters of the Nazi Party, and received doctorates in anthropology, a scientist that analyzes bones and how a subject may have died. In 1938, Mengele joined the Schutzstaffel, or the SS, and quickly became a notorious member of the team of doctors responsible for killing unwanted prisoners in an Auschwitz concentration camp. He was initially assigned as a medical officer during World