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Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 and died on February 7, 1979; also he was nicknamed The Angel of Death ( became the surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler’s “ Final Solution”), along with the other Nazi doctors at the death camps tortures men, women and children and did medical experiments of unspeakable horror during the Holocaust. Mengele enjoyed separating the people because he knows he would be able to kill people. He would put on his best uniform and even meeting trains when he wasn’t scheduled to do so also because of his good looks snappy uniform and obvious enjoyment of this horrible task, he was given that nickname. Mengele studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1935 his dissertation dealt …show more content…
Many former Nazis and old friends were there, and the Juan Domingo Peron regime was friendly to them. Josef's father, Karl had business contacts in Argentina, and Josef found that his father's prestige rubbed off on him a bit (his father's money didn't hurt, either). He joined the Nazi party in 1937 than in 1938 he went to the SS. Served in the medical corps on the Eastern Front from 1940. He earned an Iron Cross Second Class for Bravery in combat in the Ukraine in 1941. In 1942 he was saving two German soldiers from a burning tank and got wounded in the mist at the Russian front and was pronounced unfit for duty. After that he volunteered to go to the death camp, Auschwitz But returned to Germany in early 1943 after sustaining an injury.
Russia during the spring of 1943, Mengele was declared unfit for combat duty, and in May he was assigned to Auschwitz (Oswiecim), where some two million people, most of them Jews, were murdered—largely by poison …show more content…
In one case in which a mother did not want to be separated from her thirteen-year-old daughter, and bit and scratched the face of the SS man who tried to force her to her assigned line, Mengele drew his gun and shot both the woman and the child. As a blanket punishment, he then sent to the gas chamber all people from that transport that had previously been selected for work, with the comment: "Away with this shit!" (Robert Jay Lifton, the Nazi Doctors.)
Regularly involved in this selection on the arrivals ramp, where in addition to deciding which of the incoming prisoners would perish immediately. He stayed prepared for the long term drawn out rituals of death. In another case he had an obsession with twins and conducted experiments on around 1,500 pairs of siblings if one twin died the other was killed so that he could perform a comparative autopsy. Made such swift decisions about the fate of thousands of human beings was bizarrely called “Onkel Mengele” or “the good Uncle” by many of the children with whom he conducted experiments he often brought them sweets or toys and is reported to have personally carried some infants toys the gas

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