Josef Mengele was born in 1911. He studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1938 he joined the Nazi party and joined the Schutzstaffel, an elite corps of combat troops. After being injured on the German front in 1942 and being declared unfit for duty, Mengele volunteered to go to the concentration camp. He was sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp.
Mengele was extremely involved in the regularly attended rituals for death. He was the main provider for the gas chamber. At one point during his twenty-one months at Auschwitz, 32 year old Mengele was informed that a block, containing 750 women, was infected with lice.
Mengele solved the problem by gassing the entire chamber.
Josef Mengele did many twin studies, the …show more content…
There are many cases of Josef Mengele injectring chemicals into the eyes of his victim in an attempt to artifically recreate Heterochromia. Throughout his stay, he collected hundreds of eyes from victims to furnish research material.
Although Mengele is noted for his horrific studies conducted on twins, he also studied pressure chambers, drug testing, castration, freezing to death, exposure to various traumas, injection with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, and incestrous impregnations. The horror brought on by Josef Mengele gave him the name “The Angel of Death.” He fed his legend by dramatizing his merderous policies, once drawing a line on the wall of the children’s block between five feet and five feet two inches from the ground. Any child whose head dis not meet the line was sent to the gas chamber.
Four hundred thousand people were killed by Josef Mengele between 1942 and 1944. Adding to the death toll of the holocaust and symbolizing Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Mengele escaped to South America in 1948and lived under several aliases until his death in
Mengele was extremely involved in the regularly attended rituals for death. He was the main provider for the gas chamber. At one point during his twenty-one months at Auschwitz, 32 year old Mengele was informed that a block, containing 750 women, was infected with lice.
Mengele solved the problem by gassing the entire chamber.
Josef Mengele did many twin studies, the …show more content…
There are many cases of Josef Mengele injectring chemicals into the eyes of his victim in an attempt to artifically recreate Heterochromia. Throughout his stay, he collected hundreds of eyes from victims to furnish research material.
Although Mengele is noted for his horrific studies conducted on twins, he also studied pressure chambers, drug testing, castration, freezing to death, exposure to various traumas, injection with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, and incestrous impregnations. The horror brought on by Josef Mengele gave him the name “The Angel of Death.” He fed his legend by dramatizing his merderous policies, once drawing a line on the wall of the children’s block between five feet and five feet two inches from the ground. Any child whose head dis not meet the line was sent to the gas chamber.
Four hundred thousand people were killed by Josef Mengele between 1942 and 1944. Adding to the death toll of the holocaust and symbolizing Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Mengele escaped to South America in 1948and lived under several aliases until his death in