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    and Germany. The Angel of Death also known as Dr. Josef Mengele was one of the most famous doctors that worked in the internment camps. Some of the experiments were on twins and dwarfs. Dr. Mengele used a lot of different experiments against the Jews and there are lasting effects/remnants from the experiments. During the first phase of experiments, pairs of twins and people with abnormalities through heritage were put on display for Dr. Mengele and were assigned to go through all conceived medical

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    Josef Mengele was a physician that worked in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He was interested in experimenting on twins, Gypsies, dwarves, giants, and those that had physical abnormalities such as heterochromia, or a club foot [1]. Mengele would conduct pseudo-scientific experiments on his test subjects. He was a part of the ensemble of doctors that decided who would be sent to the gas chambers upon their arrival to Auschwitz. Most of these were pregnant women, the elderly, and children[2]. During

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    Josef Mengele is a name that has become synonymous with evil in more ways than one. In addition to his highly visible and significant role in Hitler’s homicidal reign of horror, he was also involved in many medical experiments. He was then arrested in the year of 1946 for the murder of over a thousand innocent human beings, including children at the Death Camp Auschwitz. Despite people’s wishes for him to stay imprisoned, he was later released in the same year he was imprisoned for unknown circumstances

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    Dr.Death 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

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    Dr. Josef Mengele was a doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He conducted many medical experiments during the Holocaust. One of his experiments consisted on taking baby twins and sew them together to make Siamese twins, he would see if they could still live while doing these experiments. Another thing he did to twins was that he would inject different types of drugs into them and see what would the drug do to them and also see if they could last through all of the injections. If he messed

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    Josef Mengele Hero

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    mad-scientists were in fact real. Many people see Joseph Mengele as a ruthless murderer, but he actually had a whole lot to do with the survival of individuals every day. Many don’t give him the credit of his findings because it was done under eerie circumstances, but without Mengele we would not have the information we have today about the human body. Josef Mengele was the most influential mad-scientist of modern medicine. Josef Mengele was raised in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany

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    wanted nothing but to multiply the German race, through twins. Josef Mengele’s life wasn’t an ideal life, but one of life and death, knowledge and experimentation, hatred and escape. Mengele’s life was a path led straight to the Nazi party. Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, in Germany. Being the oldest of 3 children, Mengele’s father expected him to inherit the family business: a well known, agricultural, business. However, Mengele couldn’t picture

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    Josef Mengele is responsible for Jews, Gypsies, and many other terrible deaths during the Holocaust. Yet, the cunningly terrible man evaded capture and death for over 30 years. Josef Mengele was the most evil doctor during WWII who committed horrific experiments and acts upon patients. On March 16, 19111, a terrible man was born. This infamous man was Josef Mengele, also known as Dr. Mengele. He was born into a family of five, his father being a Bavarian industrialist (“Josef Mengele”). As a child

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    Essay On Josef Mengele

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    Auschwitz and the awful experiments that were performed by the Angel of Death “Josef Mengele”. The monster he was the cruel things he did; no one but his victims and he will understand the history and the truth about Auschwitz. Josef Mengele was born in Günzburg Germany from a father who established From Karl Mengele & Sohne, it was a factory that makes farm equipment in located in the state of Bavaria. When Josef Mengele was in college he studied philosophy, and consumed racist teachings and ideas

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    doctors during this time was Dr. Mengele, he was responsible for most of the deaths caused by experiments during the time. His career began at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, where he became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, a leading scientific figure widely known for his research with twins. In 1947 he joined the Nazi party and the next year he joined the SS. He wasn't the only doctor during the time though there

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