Josef Mengele War Hero

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Josef Mengele was a war hero and was responsible of the prisoners of the concentration camps. Mengele was a medical expert and was to learn the secrets of birth to find a way to multiply the German race. Mengele conducted experiments for an ideal German race and future. Mengele fled Auschwitz in january 1945 and spent the next few weeks at the Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp until its evacuation. During the postwar Mengele was in U.S custody unaware that Mengele’s name already stood on a list of most wanted war criminals they released

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