Biography on josef mengele

Josef Mengele, Nazi doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp (1943–45) who selected prisoners for execution in the gas chambers and conducted.
Josef Rudolf Mengele was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the.
Prominent SS physician Josef Mengele, called the "angel of death" by his victims, conducted inhumane medical experiments on prisoners in the.

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While Clauberg and Schumann were busy with experiments designed to develop methods for the biological destruction of people regarded by the Nazis as undesirable, another medical criminal, SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele, M.D., Ph.D., was researching the issues of twins and the physiology and pathology of dwarfism in close cooperation with the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Genetics, and Eugenics in Berlin-Dahlem. He was also interested in people with different colored irises (heterochromia iridii), and in the etiology and treatment of the gangrenous disease of the face known as noma Faciei (cancrum oris, gangrenous stomatitis), a little understood disease endemic to the Roma and Sinti prisoners in Auschwitz.

In the first phase of the experiments, pairs of twins and persons with inherited anomalies were put at the disposal of Dr. Mengele and subjected to all imaginable specialist medical examinations. They were also photographed, plaster casts were made of their jaws and teeth, and they were toe- and fingerprinted. As soon as these examinations were finished, they

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Josef Mengele

Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979)

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Josef Rudolf Mengele (German:[ˈjoːzɛfˈmɛŋələ]^ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). He performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers,^[a] and was one of the doctors who administered the gas.

Before the war, Mengele received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938. He was assigned as a battalion medical officer at the start of World War II, then transferred to the Nazi concentration camps service in early 1943. He was assigned to Auschwitz, where he saw the opportunity to cond

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The Sentimental Memoirs of the Angel of Death

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“Wherever a joyous bird sings, he sings for another. Wherever a tiny star twinkles far away, it twinkles for another.” The depraved author of the innocent poem was capable of injecting chemicals into children’s eyeballs to turn them blue, removing organs from persons still alive and sewing twins together, his obsession, “to create Siamese twins.” In Brazil, Josef Mengele (1911-1979), one of the most wanted Nazis on Earth, became a writer.

The “angel of death,” responsible for deciding who would live and who would die at Auschwitz, died himself from drowning in Bertioga, Brazil. It was not until 1985 that the police discovered his whereabouts and, at his home in Diadema, they found over 3,000 pages of writings that are today kept at Federal Police headquarters. “Among the writings there is an autobiography that provides a window for analysis of the criminal mind. Mengele wrote freely and felt no need to be concerned about public opinion, which condemned