Dr. Joseph Mengele
By: Adan, Anthony, Colt, Juan
About Dr. Joseph Mengele
Mengele was born in March 1911 into a wealthy Bavarian family, with a strict Catholic upbringing.
In 1931, at the age of 20, he joined the Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet), then the SA in 1933, and applied for party membership in 1937. Upon being accepted into the Nazi party, he applied for membership in the SS
An ardent Nazi, he served as medical officer with the Waffen SS during WW2, and was appointed chief doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp where Jews were selected either for labour, extermination or medical experimentation.He became known as the ‘Angel of Death’, in charge of vast numbers of fatal, bizarre and brutal medical experiments which killed over 400 000 victims.
Controversy surrounds the outcomes of such horrific experiments, as their occasionally sophisticated findings have proved of undeniable use, for example, in the development of thinking on hereditary genetics and DNA.
After the war, he escaped, apparently surfacing in South America in 1961, where he met another Nazi, Wolfgang Gerhard, in Brazil.
Recent forensic advances, involving a body exhumed in 1985, suggest that he had assumed Gerhard’s identity upon his death, and was buried under that name.("Josef Mengele." )
Where?
Mengele was in Gunzburg Germany on March 11 1911 Dr Joseph Mengele died of stroke while swimming in the sao paulo brazil river (JOSEF MENGELE." Holocaust Encyclopedia. )
Dr Joseph Mengle joined the Nazi Party in 1937, and was transferred Germany on May 30 1943.After Mengle joined he became a very important member of the group, soon he became a physician and started doing all types of experiments on children. In 1944 nearly 3,000 of mengele's kids went to experimented In Auschwitz Germany at a concentration camp and nearly all of the kids had died and only 200 of the children survived.
Mengele had done many experiments on the children one of the experiments was a High altitude experiment which was to investigate limits of a human's endurance and extense at extremely high altitudes, the victims were placed in a low pressure chamber. This is one of the many reasons what made Dr Joseph one of the most evil human beings in the world.
What?
He was name the “Angel of death’ because he did many experiments on the jews and killed 420,000 during world war 2.
Most of the killing that he created was experimental on twin siblings, he thought it would be interesting if he tested on twin as subjects because he examines and measure the physical attributes by taking limbs and creating a new set of twins being stuck together.
he made shipments for a new laboratory and did his research on heredity.
In the progress he study medicine at the University of Munich he study physical anthropology
He would also use the gas chamber as one of the experiments.
Why?
Why did some twins looked up too Dr.Mengele?
Strangely enough, many of them recall Mengele as a gentle, affable man who befriended them as children and gave them chocolates. Since many had immediately been separated from their families upon entering the camp, Mengele became a sort of father figure. (Josef Mengele, Angel of Death.)
Why was Dr.Mengele so interested into twin dissecting?
Mengele was especially interested in medical experiments on twins, hoping to find a method of creating a race of blue-eyed Aryans that would realize the grotesque dreams of Nazi racial science.("Josef Mengele Http://www.HolocaustResearchProject.org.")
Why was Dr.Mengele seen as the angel of death?
As a requisite feature of their “rounds,” medical staff performed “selections” of prisoners on the ramp, determining from among the mass of humanity arriving at Auschwitz who would be retained for work and who would perish immediately in the gas chambers. Known as the “Angel of Death,” or sometimes as the “White Angel,” for his coldly cruel demeanor on the ramp, ("JOSEF MENGELE.")
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"Josef Mengele Http://www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." Josef Mengele Http://www.HolocaustResearchProject.org. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, 2012. Web. 04 May 2016.