Josef Mengele

Who was Josef Mengele? Josef Mengele was an SS officer and physician at the famous concentration camp Auschwitz. Mengele is responsible for thousands of murders alone, being a selector (a Nazi who decided which prisoners would be gassed and which prisoners would die by forced labor) and being the physician for the camp. He experimented on prisoners as if they were lifeless human beings, with no remorse. Josef Mengele was born March 16th, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. In 1935 he earned his Ph.D.…

doctor, Josef Mengele; he had also worked in a few other camps. He was an infamous Nazi experimentalist. Josef Mengele was born on March 11, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. In his early years, Josef seemed like a normal young boy and no one would guess that he would be the one to commit to this harsh work. He began to study medicine and found an interest in anthropology and genetics. Prior to coming to Auschwitz, Dr. Mengele had studied philosophy with his partner, Dr. Otmar von Verschuer. Mengele…

Killing people is not a sport. Josef Mengele actions portrayed otherwise. All too many innocent Jewish citizens were affected by the Holocaust, including the ones who were randomly selected to get experimented on. Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911. He was the eldest of 3 sons. The town was terrified of Josef’s mom because of her terrible anger issues. His father owned a local plant that manufactured farming equipment. “Josef was a smart, popular kid and was a good student,”…

Auschwitz was Josef Mengele. Growing Up Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzenburg, Germany. He was the oldest of three brothers, Karl Mengele Jr. and Alois Mengele. His workaholic parents, Walburga Mengele and Karl Mengele, were distant and cold to him. Although, Josef had a nanny who was like a mother to him. Monika, his nanny, was a devout Catholic and led Mengele to believe that all non-catholics were bad. As a child, he was taught nationalistic ideas from the Germans. When…

Dr. Mengele’s twin experiments Have you ever heard stories of Dr. Mengele, “The Angel of Death’’? Have you listened to any twin survivors interviews talk about their experience in the Holocaust and how it changed them? He was an evil doctor that performed unimaginable experiments on twins during the Holocaust. Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why - perhaps because he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left…

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.…

Auschwitz, a traumatizing concentration camp. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel expresses the theme as humanity vs. inhumanity. First, the SS men took away the prisoners’ names, including Elie’s.They also called them derogatory names. Furthermore, Dr, Josef Mengele experimented the hostages like they were animals. Lastly, the jews were not provided everyday with necessities they needed everyday, like food. The first act of inhumanity was beyond their arrival. First, the jews were disrespected…

While most scientific experiments in the Holocaust left the subjects scarred or dead, Dr. Mengele took interest in a certain family and caused them no physical problems. This was a rather large family of dwarfs, the Ovitzs, and since Dr. Mengele “had only one family of dwarfs, he was careful not to put their lives at risk” (Koren 33). To prevent the Ovitz family from being trampled to death or catching illnesses, the…

To many, the Holocaust is the first thing that comes to mind when discussing or remembering World War II. I feel that this alone is an argument for the Holocaust being a defining factor for the war; however, there were occurrences during this time that stand out above the others. Not only was there a mass genocide on a particular grouping of people, there were also a vast number of concentration camps and medical testing that occurred during this period. When we are taught about the Holocaust,…

January 30, 1933 marked the beginning of the holocaust and the torture of Jews as well as other raises then May 8, 1945 it finally ended. Germany conquered most of Western Europe, where most of the Jewish population of the whole region fell in 1941. The death camps were built in Poland and then continued throughout Paris, Germany, and the rest of Europe. From the beginning the holocaust could have been prevented by military and politicians from other countries, and within it's own country. Some…