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    who Josef Mengele was, The kinds of experiments he performed, the purpose of them, and who survived will tell us more about this infamous “doctor.” Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, as the eldest of what would eventually be three. His parents names were Walburga and Karl Mengele. For as horrid and terrifying as the experiments he would later perform were, Mengele had no terrible backstory, he was rich, witty person growing up whose father was a very successful businessman. Mengele got his

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    Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, and was born in Gunzburg, Germany. He had a loving father named Karl Mengel and a mother Walburga Mengele, as well as two brothers Karl jr. Mengele and Alois Mengele. As a kid he grew up fine like any normal kid. He was somewhat popular in his town and very intelligent. Later in life he attended Frankfurt University and majored in philosophy. There he met his mentor Dr. Otmar Von Verschuer who had a high interest in twins. This is when he married his wife

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    from the repercussions of hate. Before and during World War II (1939-1945), Hitler gradually dehumanized the Jewish people, which lead up to placing them into concentration camps. Consequently, Mengele a “camp doctor” took advantage of this opportunity and cruelly experimented on prisoners (Josef Mengele). Following this, the Sikh temple shooting is another example of a tragic event with hate as a motive. We can learn many lessons from tragedies caused by hate. By recognizing the tragedies you can

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    ”(Primo Levi) There were many evils during the Holocaust, but Josef Mengele was one of the most sadistic people during the time. He performed morbid procedures and tortured many prisoners for the sake of science. He has also creatively done actions so, he would not get caught up with the consequences of his behavior. His perseverance had led him to keep going on with these medical practices that had made him and evil man. Josef Mengele,“ Angel of Death” was responsible for performing deadly experiments

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    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 area when

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    he was not the only one that was to blame for the horrors of the Holocaust. Among the others were Sigmund Rascher and Josef Mengele. Both Rascher and Mengele were experimental doctors during the Holocaust. The two became infamous for their inhumane and torturous experiments. In fact, Mengele is still referred to as “The Angel of Death”. The reputations of Rascher and Mengele are so widely known because of their experiments on freezing people, human genetics, and twins.

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    Doctor The German Doctor, which is directed by Lucia Puenzo, is based on a true story of a German Doctor by the name of Josef Mengele. This film starred Alex Brendemuhl as Josef Mengele, Natalie Oreiro as Eva, Diego Peretti as Enzo, Florencia Bado as Lilith, Elena Roger as Nora (Internet Movie Database). The film takes place in 1960 and follows Nazi physician Josef Mengele who has adopted a new identity and lives in hiding among unsuspecting citizens. He moves into a local hotel where he befriends

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    Pellish 1,055 words. Dr. Josef Mengele, a research scientist during the Jewish Holocaust in World War II, conducted many gruesome experiments on twins, on peoples eyes, and his freezing experiments during the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. Many people don’t know who Dr. Mengele is. Do you know who he is? Dr. Josef Mengele was a gruesome research scientist during the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. One of the many gruesome experiments that Mr. Mengele did was his experimentation on

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    Intro: When the Holocaust began on January 30th, 1933 it brought famine, inhumane experimentation, and most of all death to the Jewish population (Auschwitz). The prison camps, extermination camps and the labor camps were all located in one vicinity in Poland, which was annexed by Germany in the beginning of World War II. Adolf Hitler, the horror behind this three-part camp known as Auschwitz and other terrors that came with the Holocaust, believed the only powerful nationalities in the world were

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    Dr. Josef Mengele’s Cruel Experiments During the Holocaust, Dr. Mengele was the symbol of Nazi cruelty and mysticism due to his tortuous experiments, mass murders, and gruesome experiments done in the name of science. The starting of Mengele’s experimental interests began when he became anxious to make a name for himself; he searched for the secrets of heredity. The Nazi ideal of the future would benefit from the help of genetics. If Aryan women could give birth to blonde and blue eyed children

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