-The Angel of Death-
The Nazi party rose to power in 1933 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, and would soon unleash a reign of terror and death upon Europe. However, Hitler was not directly responsible for all of the terror to ensue; there were many Nazi followers and soldiers who committed unspeakable crimes of war and other atrocious acts even as far as crimes against humanity. One such man was Dr. Josef Mengele.
Mengele was born March 16th, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. He received his Ph. D. in physical anthropology in 1935, when he was 24 from the University of Munich. A few years later, in 1937 he was the assistant to Dr. Otmar von Vercheur who was famous for his research on twins. In 1945, Mengele fled Germany. He was caught by US soldiers who later released him, not realizing who exactly he was. Mengele was never found alive again. It was said that after he escaped, he befriended a Nazi supporter in Brazil named Wolfgang Gerhard, who hid Mengele for years and even
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Josef Mengele was a revered scholar and one of the most infamous members of the Nazi party known of today, especially through the crimes against humanity he committed from his work with experimentation and torture on twins and many others. In most pictures found of Mengele he is showing off his gap toothed smile, but behind that smile is the terrible Angel of
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Joseph Mengele is the angle of death he is a scientist that did experiments on people. He killed a lot of innocent people. One experiment was him injecting people with gasoline. After the war he was escorted to Argentina with some SS people. He live there for a while then moved to South America. Then he found a refugee soldier from the war and took his identity.(Josef Mengele) https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060
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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".
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Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, spent 30 years on the run from officials and was never caught(“After”). Josef Mengele was a German doctor. He conducted experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. He was also a war criminal after the ending of the war. Josef Mengele intensified WWII in many ways, and this will be shown through his life, in Auschwitz, and in South America.
Thesis: From his early life to his insane experiments, Josef Mengele is a perfect model of the evils humans are capable of.
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The fault of the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust lies mainly on the top SS officers. One of the officers was Joseph Goebbels, the head director of propaganda for Hitler and the Nazi party. In an article about him, it says “His mission was to censor all opposition to Hitler and present the chancellor and the Nazi Party in the most positive light while stirring up hatred for Jewish people” (Joseph Goebbels). Through propaganda, Joseph Goebbels was able to figuratively control the thoughts and beliefs of the people. This helped the party to gain a lot of support. Another top SS officer was Dr. Mengele. In the book, Night, it says “Three SS officers surrounded the notorious Dr. Mengele...Dr. Mengele was holding a list: our numbers” (Wiesel