Josef Mengele: The Angle Of Death

Josef Mengele known as “the Angle of Death” Mengele was born March 16, 1911 and died July the 2nd of 1979. Mengele was a prosperous manufacturer of farming implements. 1935 Mengele earned a Ph. D he volunteered into the medical service of the matters for the entire camp complex. Mengele would come into the camp every few weeks, after six months he was taken on a death march out of Auschwitz. He became known as the angel of death in charge of vast numbers of fatal, bizarre, and brutal medical experiments which killed over 400,000 victims. After the war, he escaped apparently surfacing in South America in 1961, where he met another Nazi. Mengele studied philosophy under Alfred Rosenberg whose racial theories highly influenced him. 1934 he was

Mengele selected Auschwitz because of the opportunities there to continue his research. His career in academia was looking bright, but the war interrupted his progress, and he was placed with reserve medical corps. Mengele was declared unfit for combat but promoted to captain. He contributed at concentration camp where Jews selected either for labor, extermination or medical experimentation. He was the chief provider for the gas chambers; he fed his legend by dramatizing murderous policies, such as his drawing a line on the wall of the children’s block between 150 and 156 centimeters. He assisted rounded up 14 pairs of gypsy twins during the night. Twins was usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected. Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of children in an attempt to change their eye color. He performed both physical and psychological experiments, experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia. “Three times a week we were marched to Auschwitz to a big brick building, sort of like a big gymnasium, they would keep them there for about six or eight hours at a time and they would study twins body parts they would photograph, measure our heads and arms and bodies them compare the measurements from one of us to another” Said “Twins” (“Medical

The highest-ranking physician at the camp the physician made him responsible in all medical matters for the entire camp complex. Mengele began his career in the spring of 1943. Mengele had performed a number of his legitimate research protocols. Mengele associated more closely with this “selection duty” than any other medical officer at Auschwitz, by most accounts he performed this task no more often than any of his colleagues. Mengele been through many medical experiments he was one survivor of the medical experiments in Auschwitz. He had a variety of other research interests. Crimes had been well documented before the international military tribunal and other post war courts, West German authorities issued a warrant for Mengele’s arrest in 1959, and an extradition in 1960. Then later that year Mengele suffered a stroke while swimming at a vacation resort in Brazil and drowned. Mengele had eluded his captors for 34 years; he served well and will truly be remembered for many great things. So in conclusion Mengele made his purpose well known and have a lot to look back on (“The Angel of Death”