Case Study Of Josef Mengele

Why did Dr. Josef Mengele experiment on twin children prisoners in Auschwitz?
Dr. Josef Mengele or "The Angel of Death" he was so often called, was a physician in Germany who worked next to top medical researchers. He was often called as a handsome man with a calm appearance, an appearance that hid the person he really was. During World War II, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted horrifying experiments on humans, especially on twin children who he seemed to have a fascination with to be able to learn about environmental and genetic traits and to experiment on how he could be able to multiply on the German Aryan/Nordic race which Hitler appointed on being a race above all other races by having German Aryan/Nordic women give birth to twins. Mengele also decided who lived and who died in the concentration camp in Auschwitz by just pointing out with his finger right or left. Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who took an oath that all doctors take to never harm anyone did the opposite of that oath by all the experiments he did on the Jewish and Gypsy twin children prisoners in Auschwitz; and to all the twin prisoners who lived thru the ordeal that Mengele put them thru, they never got to see the “Angel of Death” known as one the most evil man among others associated with the holocaust on trial and pay for his crimes as he was never prosecuted as a war criminal.

Josef Mengele was born in Gunzburg, Germany in March 16, 1911. The oldest son of a founder of a farm machinery company. He attended the University of Munich in 1935; the University of Munich was one of other headquarters of the Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler. Mengele went on and earned his PhD in physical anthropology. In 1937 “at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in F...

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...tically determined in other people as well.” (Lifton, 1985) A Nazi who said he never intentionally hurt anyone and was just doing his job was what Mengele’s son recalls during a visit in 1977. Mengele fled from a country to another and died in 1979 in Brazil from a stroke and was buried as Wolfgang Gerhard, his body was later dig up in 1985 for a forensic examination to prove it was Mengele’s body, but it wasn’t until in 1992 when DNA proved that it was Mengele’s body. Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who did the opposite of what doctors do in their career which is to care and not harm, killed many prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and became one of the evilest men among others in the Holocaust with his experimentations, but to the twins who lived he was the doctor who scarred them for life, and a doctor that was never prosecuted for his crimes in Auschwitz.