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Daisy Goeppner & Isabel Seldomridge Mrs. Cox/5th hour 3/20/17 Josef Mengele Josef Mengele was an SS physician, famous for his twisted medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners at Auschwitz. Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg. He was the oldest son of Karl Mengele, a manufacturer of farming implements. At the University of Munich in 1935, he earned a Ph.D.in anthropology, the study of human societies and cultures and their development. In January 1937, he came the assistant

Irma Grese: Why She Was So Evil Was Irma Grese as bad as the survivors from Auschwitz made her out to be, or were there two interpretations to her brutality? Although Irma Grese hadn’t spent much time being an SS Officer (SS is short for Schutzstaffel, which is German for “protective shield”), Grese chose to be cruel and sadistic toward the female prisoners. Irma Grese had been a savage in ways that most people can’t even imagine. The way that she treated the prisoners from the Concentration Camps

In 1940 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Nazi Germany. Hitler, with the support of Germany, begins his quest for world domination and purging his nation of all those he thinks are impure to his new aryan race. These people are the Jews, the disabled, gypsies, those with different political views, and those who are gay. As we stand in the sorting line, awaiting the fate that we would meet, I think of the life that we left… no the life that was ripped from us. The carefree days before the war, before

Life at Auschwitz squeezed every drop of life a human could tolerate, and then ten times more than that. The Auschwitz concentration camp yielded intolerable living conditions that had disease and infection plastered through it. Every day was a fight to survive. All desire for hope was lost and all yearned for food and water. Many concentration camps deprived and devitalized the lives of millions. Auschwitz, being one of the most formidable concentration camps, had the utmost insufferable living

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” This quote by Josef Mengele speaks to his time spent as part of the Holocaust. Historically, many may also know him as the Angel of Death. He is infamous for the inhumane experiments he did on the Jewish children during the Holocaust. Mengele was cruel and unapologetic. What he did, he believed he did in the name of Germany and science. Perhaps this lack of remorse and guilt is what is most intriguing about him. Mengele

not known as someone who helped the people in need. Dr. Josef Mengele, who was a research scientist during the Holocaust, conducted many gruesome experiments on twins, kids, men, and women. Dr. Josef Mengele studied anthropology at the University of Munich in 1935, where he also earned his Ph.D. In January, 1937, Dr. Josef Mengele went to study at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt. At the institute, Dr. Josef Mengele became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer

“My name, yes, it is Wolfgang Amadeus. What is yours?” “My name is Josef, Josef Mengele. Would you like a chocolate?” “Yes sir,” Wolfgang said, “I would love a chocolate.” Weeks passed and Wolfgang grew close to Dr. Josef Mengele. As it turns out his parents knew doctor Mengele very closely before they died and was adopted into a Jewish family. Mengele would treat Wolfgang as if they had been

On March 16th, 1911, Josef Mengele, the eldest of three sons, was born to Karl and Walburga Mengele in Gunzburg, Germany. In his hometown of Gunzburg, Mengele was considered to be “refined, intelligent, and popular” (“Josef Mengele, Angel of Death”). His family was considered to be upper middle class as the Mengele’s were the owners of a machine tools business. In 1935, Mengele earned a PhD in physical anthropology from the University of Munich. From there, he continues on to the Institute for Hereditary

performed by different doctors. Each doctor had their own ambitions and why they committed these experiments and war crimes. These are five reason these doctors put effort to their research. Josef Mengele was known as “Angle of death” for his inhumane experiments on the prisoners on the concentration camps. Josef Mengele earned a Ph.D. in 1935 for anthropology he joined the Nazi party in 1937 he slowly climbed the ranks until he became a chief camp of Auschwitz. He would be present at the selection

how powerful they truly were—and became the most feared power in all of Nazi Germany. Through this immense power they were able to persecute Jews for their beliefs and they tortured, killed, and enslaved them by the millions. From this group emerged Josef Mengele—a Nazi SS officer who believed heavily in nationalism and was fascinated in torturous experiments, that helped him to gain insight on the wiring of the human genetics. He grew up with cold hard parents who heavily supported the war efforts