Research Paper On Auschwitz

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

Joseph Mengele joined the Nazi party in 1937, a year later he became an SS. He volunteered his medical

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.

When the corpses were deprived of valuables, they were incinerated in pits, on pyres or in large crematoriums. Crematorium II, the biggest in Auschwitz, was capable of incinerating over 1,400 bodies a day. Altogether, the four crematoria could incinerate 4,416 people a day, and over 1,600,000 individuals were cremated per year.

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

85 years ago, over a 12 year period, nearly six million Jews were killed in a genocide called The Holocaust. The Holocaust was led by the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler was their leader. The mass murders took place at concentration camps throughout Europe. The majority of concentration camps resided in Poland and Germany. Many people believe there were only a few concentration camps. “However, researchers found that the Nazis had actually established 20,000 camps between 1933 and 1945” (“How Many Camps,” n.d.). In this paper I will be discussing the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In January 1945 he fled Auschwitz as the Soviet Army was advancing through western Poland. To evade getting captured by the Soviet Union he made his way west after the Gross-Rosen concentration camp was evacuated. He was in United States custody, however, the United States was not aware that Mengele’s name was on the list of wanted war criminals, and they released him. From the summer of 1945 until the spring of 1949 he worked under false papers as a farmhand near Rosenheim, Bavaria. With the help of his wealthy family, he then fled to

So many innocent people and families were taken away from their home to and be exterminated for no reason. Approximately one thousand of the Poles and Jews homes were destroyed, having the people taken away to camp (KL Auschwitz Birkenau). Jews from almost every country in Europe were transported to Auschwitz by a long and uncomfortable train ride (Auschwitz United States ). Jews were

The Angel of Death was born in 1911 in Guenzburg Germany, his name was. Mengele left Gunzburg in October, 1930, to study at Munich University where he earned a PHD in Anthropology, then he got his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt Am Main. In 1937, Mengele decided to join the Nazi party. There, he met

Along with the gas chambers in Auschwitz, Adolf Hitler assured to leave no evidence of those lives he took by using crematoriums. These crematoriums were used to disposed of the remains of the Jews who died either waiting to enter gas chambers or those who had already died in the gas chambers. Many also claim “The cremation ovens existed would have been too small for this purpose, and the reason there were cremations ovens at all was they were put in to provide cremation service for the deaths from natural causes and disease epidemics that were expected from such a high density work camp”. This claim is a flawed claim, due to the historical fact that Auschwitz was not known to be a work camp, but an extermination camp.

Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945, was the mastermind behind both World War II within Europe and the Holocaust. In the “Final Solution,” concentration and extermination camps were implemented in an attempt to rid of the Jewish population entirely. Such a task, genocide, would not be done easily. By the end of World War II, over six million Jews had been killed. However, not merely Jews were subject to mass murder, but nearly five million non-Jewish people. Out of all of these deaths, a range from 1,885,889 to 2,045,215 were in the concentration camp system. Furthermore, approximately one million of these deaths were carried out within the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Thus, one in every six Jews killed during the holocaust was killed at an Auschwitz camp. These extermination camps were the only means by which such a multitude of murder could have been efficiently accomplished. The systematic mechanization of mass murder, using gas chambers and crematoria, made such high death tolls fathomable, making efficient killing easier both physically and psychologically.

Josef Mengele, SS physician notorious for his inhumane experimental activities upon Jewish prisoners of the Auschwitz death camp during WWII. Mengele performed both physical and psychological experiments towards both identical and fraternal twins. He preformed experimental surgeries without anesthesia, made injections with lethal germs, as well as attempting to change eye color with harsh chemicals. Mengele was commonly referred as “The Angel of Death.” Josef Mengele was born on March 16th, 1911 in Günzberg Bavaria, Germany. Josef was the eldest of his three children to Karl and Walburga Mengele. His father was a successful manufacturer of farming machinery. In 1935, Josef earned a Ph.D. in physical anthropology from the

From 1938 to 1939 Mengele spent six months with a specially trained mountain regiment in Tyrol.

Dr. Josef Mengele started his life in the military after he graduated college. He had a medical degree. 1939 when the Invasion of Poland ended. Just after that war ended, the Attack on the pearl harbor happened. During his begging in the military, he volunteered to help with the medical doctors He helped the wounded, by bandaging them up, giving them the right medication. Later that year he became the medical expert for the RHSA. RHSA was one of many immigration offices. In January 1943 Dr. Mengele became the SS- Captain. He became the Captain of the SS which means he can control, the death camps, the gas chambers, and the German police. That was his first job at the Holocaust.( Josef Mengele Biography)

     The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest