Victoria Anderson - The Angel of Death

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

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”).

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.

Mengele. Dr. Mengele was a German officer at Auschwitz and was often referred to as the “Angel of Death” (Gutman, 2). He is known for his horribly unethical experiments performed on prisoners and immense number of bodies killed in Auschwitz. Mengele treated the majority of his patients ruthlessly, with no remorse, and as objects for his destruction. He was also known for his bad temper and was seen beating prisoners with metal poles, burning them alive, and shooting them. The only patients he treated less horrifically were twins, which he found to be enticing. Mengele would provide them with clean clothes and regular meals in order to strengthen them, and once they were healthy he would perform horrific surgeries on them (Schmittroth, 315). How Dr. Mengele treated the prisoners in Auschwitz would have an extensive influence on the difficulties they had

Doctors and Experiments of the Holocaust 6 million Jews, 2.7 million Soviets, 1 million Poles, half a million Gypsies, and a quarter of a million disabled and innocent people were all murdered and killed during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a terrible and awful time in history, and often times we try to push it away and forget about all the innocent people that were killed. The doctors such as Josef Mengele and the experiments that he performed on concentration camp prisoners and kids were a big part of the Holocaust, and many of these people and children were tortured, dissected, and killed. Dr. Josef Mengele was known as the cruelest and evil doctor during the Holocaust. He was oftentimes referred to as the “Angel of Death.”

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

17. “Dr. Mengele had the air of a man who took great satisfaction in his work and was pleased with his calling.” Wrote one inmate.

Josef Mengele or the “Angel of Death” was a Nazi doctor that experimented on only twins, and when Josef took Eva away from her sister, “ I had gotten 5 injections, that evening I developed a very high fever, I was trembling. My legs and arms were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr.King and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr.Mengele said laughingly “Too bad, she is so young. She only has two weeks to live..”

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)

Dr.Mengele, or Josef Mengele, was famous for the gruesome and harrowing

Josef Mengele was an awful man, he dehumanized his prisoners, and he carried out agonizing and evil experiments. To begin, many non-Aryan people in Nazi Germany were considered undesirable. Sadly, the people that were considered worthless were sent to camps, where those with abnormalities were experimented on. Josef Mengele was a evil man, and with his new wide variety group of test subjects he could do anything he wanted to the people in the concentration camps. Josef Mengele was given the full go ahead to kill or maim the camp prisoners, he would perform a wide variety of painful tests on his subjects.

Josef Mengele performed included; freezing/hypothermia, genetics, infectious disease, interrogation and torture, killing/ genocide, high altitude, pharmacological, sterilization, and he would also perform surgery. The freezing experiment was done to stimulate the conditions on the Eastern Front. They did it to see how long you could go without freezing before you finally died. The high temperature experiment was just the opposite of that, it was done to see how hot you could go before have a heat stroke. Sometimes he would perform this experiment in a bathtub, and put you in a scalding hot bath. The point is no matter what the experiment he did, his experiments were beyond evil, they were revolting. All the experiments he did was for a purpose tho. They were to see what would help their people fighting for them. So they people innocent twins under harsh conditions to see what the results would

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

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

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