Josef Mengele Fifteen years ago the world let out a sigh of relief with the discovery of 208 bones and a few rags. For over forty years survivors of the Nazi death camps known as Auschwitz were haunted by the vision of the handsome, well dressed man with a caring smile who pointed his white-gloved finger either left or right deciding who lived (at least for the moment) and who died. Those who passed this man and survived have always remembered the man known as the Angel of Death. These are the people who question the identification of these bones as those of SS doctor Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was the eldest son of Karl and Walburga Mengele of Günzburg, Bavaria. Karl Mengele ran a machine tools factory and often put his eldest son Beppo, as he was known then, in charge of overseeing the transport of all goods to and from the factory (Drekel 29). Beppo was always happy when the transports arrived and years later an older Beppo still delighted at the arrival of trains and their cargoes, but at a different railway stop (30). Mengele's childhood was one of privilege. His family was upper middle class and Beppo was well liked by the townspeople. Most townspeople recall an innocence and sweetness to him (31). Josef Mengele was a promising student and went to Munich to study racial theories under the "philosopher" of National Socialism Alfred Rosenburg (THHP par.2). He then moved to Frankfurt-am-Main to receive his medical degree and study under Otmar von Verschuer. Verschuer was the director of the Institute for Racial Hygiene at the University of Frankfurt and is who began Mengele with his studies on genetic engineering (par. 2). By the time Mengele received his medical degree he was a member of both the Nation... ... middle of paper ... ...When They Came to Take My Father: Voices from the Holocaust. Ed. Rachel Hager and Leora Kahn. New York: Arcade, 1996. 72-75. The Holocaust History Project. 18 May 1999. The Holocaust History Project (THHP). 30 October 2000. *http://www.holocaust-history.org/short essays/josef-mengele.shtml*. "Josef Mengele and Experimentation on Human Twins at Auschwitz." TwinSource. 1 Nov. 2000. *http://www.modcult.brown.edu/Students/angell/mengele.html*. Lynott, Douglas. Josef Mengele: Angel of Death. 30 October 2000. *http://www.crimelibrary.com/mengele/main.htm*. Works Consulted Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews 1933-1945. New York: Bantam, 1975. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Knopf, 1996. Marrus, Michael R. The Holocaust in History. New York: Penguin, 1987.
In Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli tells the story of his time in Auschwitz. Dr. Nyiszli is a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp located in Poland. His story provides the world with a description of horrors that had taken place in camp in 1944. Separated from his wife and daughter, Dr. Nyiszli volunteered to work under the supervision of the head doctor in the concentration camp, Josef Mengele. It was under Dr. Mengele’s supervision that Dr. Nyiszli was exposed to the extermination of innocent people and other atrocities committed by the SS. Struggling for his own survival, Dr. Nyiszli did anything possible to survive, including serving as a doctor’s assistant to a war criminal so that he could tell the world what happened at the Auschwitz concentration camp.This hope for survival and some luck allowed Dr. Nyiszli to write about his horrific time at Auschwitz.His experiences in Auschwitz will remain apart of history because of the insight he is able to provide.
Dr. Nyiszli was a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp survivor which was located in Poland. Reading his story provided me and the rest of the world with a description of the horrors that took place in the concentration camp in 1944. Being separated from his wife and daughter, Dr. Nyiszli volunteered to work under the supervision of the head doctor at the concentration camp which was Josef Mengele. Being a Jew and a medical doctor, he was spared death to do worst then a death, to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates with the infamous “Angel of Death”- Dr. Josef Mengele. Dr. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. There were several thoughts that ran my mind after reading Dr.
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Simon Wiesenthal: The Nazi Hunter. There are many heroic individuals in history that have shown greatness during a time of suffering, as well as remorse when greatness is needed, but one individual stood out to me above them all. He served as a hero among all he knew and all who knew him. This individual, Simon Wiesenthal, deserves praise for his dedication to his heroic work tracking and prosecuting Nazi war criminals that caused thousands of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other victims of the Holocaust to suffer and perish. The Life of a Holocaust Victim The effect the Holocaust had on Wiesenthal played a major role in the person he made himself to be.
This radical find would provide important details that would exonerate the Jewish community in Konitz of the accusation that Ernst Winter had been killed in order to use his blood as an ingredient in their Passover matzah bread. Later that year, in October, Dr. Puppe, a forensic medicine professor in Berlin, would re-examine and evaluate the original autopsy report. Upon close examination of the lungs and face, as well as the absence of blood on the skin surrounding the area of the throat incision would testify against the notion that Winter had died from a fatal cut to the throat. Thus, Puppe concluded that fatal bleeding did not lead to the death of Winter, rather, suffocation was the probable cause (Smith 2002, 188). When police found new clues to Winter’s demise, “semen stains: on the vest (just below the left pocket), on the jacket, and on the outside of the pants close to the zipper,” the location of the stains confirmed that Winter had been killed, “as a forensic report put it, while attempting to have intercourse with his clothes on” (Smith 2002, 188).
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“It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney” (Wiesel 39). During World War II, the largest and deadliest war in history, Jews were forcefully put into concentration camps to work while the Nazi soldiers benefited from it. If the Jewish prisoners were incapable of working, or refused to work they were sent to the crematorium, a furnace in which S.S soldiers used a deadly gas called Zyklon-B (“Elie and Oprah at Auschwitz (Fixed Repeats)”). Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, was a victim of the Holocaust (“Elie and Oprah at Auschwitz (Fixed Repeats)”). In the memoir Wiesel describes the pain and suffering he and his
Murders inflicted upon the Jewish population during the Holocaust are often considered the largest mass murders of innocent people, that some have yet to accept as true. The mentality of the Jewish prisoners as well as the officers during the early 1940’s transformed from an ordinary way of thinking to an abnormal twisted headache. In the books Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Ordinary men by Christopher R. Browning we will examine the alterations that the Jewish prisoners as well as the police officers behaviors and qualities changed.
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The Holocaust was a very drastic period in the history of the world. The Holocaust began in the early 1930s.During this period of time, the German forces began to kidnap the Jews. Many Jews were taken away from their homes and were forced to work in concentration camps. The Jews were treated badly, and received a small amount of food. Some of the Jews were murdered in mass killings and were put to death by gas chamber. Many Jews were separated from their families and never saw them again. Only Jews that were fit to do work were the ones that survived during the Holocaust. Young children, women, and people of old age were put to death. Many people participated in the Nazi Party and were a part of the mass killings of Jews. Adolf Eichmann was one of these people.
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Mengele was assigned in the Nazi army as a physician and surgical medic, who were greatly wanted by patients, however they were also feared. The most tremendous jobs he ever had, was of course his goal to find the key to heredity, and the selection of life or death. In other words Mengele was in charge of where people were sent, whether it is the working camps, or the crematory. Survivors today co...
January 30th, 1933 was the day thousands of lives were affected greatly. Adolf Hitler began as the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler and his newly founded army, were always viewed as the true killers of the innocent Jews. Many did not notice the people who actually did a great deal of the killing, the doctors that is. There were a number of doctors from the Holocaust that are known for horrific killing but one stands out above the rest. Dr. Josef Mengele is the one that most people know about. He is the one that is known for his antics in the killing of Jews. He can’t be compared to the others because what he did was like no other.
In 1930, young, teenage Mengele completed high school and left his home to study medicine at Munich University in Germany. Adolf Hitler was stirring up the Bavarian people at this time with his “anti-Jewish” ideas. He attracted large crowds, who gather...