Josef Mengele was an infamous Nazi and a German doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Although he was described as a very classy, polished, and attractive man on the outside, Josef Mengele received the nickname “Angel of Death” after conducting fatal and bizarre medical experiments which contributed in killing over 3,000 sets of twins. (Levine, 2016) Mengele often prescribed death to patients in an attempt to gather as much research and conduct as many experiments as possible to the victim. Josef Mengele was fascinated with twins and did most of the experiments during his life time on twins. Mengele hoped to use his research to obtain his “habilitation”, a title required to become a professor in German speaking lands.
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Mengele ended his military experience after serving for 6 months, after this he volunteered to be in the medical service. He was then placed in the reserve medical corps which he stayed with for three years (Levine, 2016). After his time fighting in the war and working in the medical service, Mengele was wounded on the campaign, because of which he returned to Germany in early January 1943. Since leaving the military Mengele began working with fields such as anthropology, human genetics, and eugenics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute run by his former mentor Dr. Otmar won Verschuer. Shortly after being promoted to SS. Captain, Mengele was transferred to Auschwitz later that same year. (Holocaust Encyclopedia: Josef Mengele, …show more content…
Although he was on the list of wanted war criminals, the U.S. released him, it was at this time that he quickly moved to South America where he spent the remainder of his life time. While in South America, West German authorities issued a warrant for Josef Mengele’s arrest in 1950 although he was never found and arrested for his crimes. Josef Mengele’s cause of death is believed to be a stroke which caused him to drown while swimming on vacation in Brazil on February 7, 1979. In 1985 a corpse was discovered that forensic experts determined to be Josef Mengele’s, although they are almost certain of this, many people believe that Mengele is still alive today (Holocaust Encyclopedia: Josef Mengele, n.d.). Mengele’s experiments although bizarre contributed to the development of thinking on hereditary genetics and DNA. (Biographies: Josef Mengele, 2015). Josef Mengele conducted many awful, inhumane, and horrible experiments to thousands of people all throughout the duration of World War II. Although conducted in a bizarre manner, he helped the advancement of knowledge on DNA that we have
Mengele ended his military experience after serving for 6 months, after this he volunteered to be in the medical service. He was then placed in the reserve medical corps which he stayed with for three years (Levine, 2016). After his time fighting in the war and working in the medical service, Mengele was wounded on the campaign, because of which he returned to Germany in early January 1943. Since leaving the military Mengele began working with fields such as anthropology, human genetics, and eugenics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute run by his former mentor Dr. Otmar won Verschuer. Shortly after being promoted to SS. Captain, Mengele was transferred to Auschwitz later that same year. (Holocaust Encyclopedia: Josef Mengele, …show more content…
Although he was on the list of wanted war criminals, the U.S. released him, it was at this time that he quickly moved to South America where he spent the remainder of his life time. While in South America, West German authorities issued a warrant for Josef Mengele’s arrest in 1950 although he was never found and arrested for his crimes. Josef Mengele’s cause of death is believed to be a stroke which caused him to drown while swimming on vacation in Brazil on February 7, 1979. In 1985 a corpse was discovered that forensic experts determined to be Josef Mengele’s, although they are almost certain of this, many people believe that Mengele is still alive today (Holocaust Encyclopedia: Josef Mengele, n.d.). Mengele’s experiments although bizarre contributed to the development of thinking on hereditary genetics and DNA. (Biographies: Josef Mengele, 2015). Josef Mengele conducted many awful, inhumane, and horrible experiments to thousands of people all throughout the duration of World War II. Although conducted in a bizarre manner, he helped the advancement of knowledge on DNA that we have