Josef Mengele: The Angel Of Death

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One man, who created so much trauma to so many innocent people, goes by the name of Josef Mengele or The Angel of Death. “Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911” (Posner, 4). “Mengele was born in the town of Günzburg Germany” (World Book, 400). He was born to his parents, Walburga Mengele and Karl Mengele (Posner, 174). “Mengele was the eldest of three children” (www.medicalbag.com). We don’t know much about Mengele’s early years. However we know that Mengele went to and graduated from Munich University (www.huffingtonpost.com). He went to work at the Institute for Heredity Biology and Racial Hygiene in January 1935 (www.ushmm.org). Mengele received his medical degree of Physical Anthropology in 1937 (www.ushmm.org). “Mengele was the assistant …show more content…
Josef and Irene had a son named Rolf Mengele, who is still alive today. Later in 1950 Josef married Martha Mengele (Posner, 179). Martha had a son named Karl Heinz, and that became Josef Mengele’s stepson (Posner, 181). After joining the Nazi Party, Dr. Mengele joined the German military as a nurse and then was wounded and sent back to Germany in 1940 (www.ushmm.org).
Mengele was accepted as one of the head physicians at the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. “Mengele had an assistant by the name Dr. Miklos Nyiszli” (www.ushmm.org). Most people don’t know that Josef Mengele was not the only doctor at Auschwitz (www.ushmm.org). I know it is hard to believe, because of all the horrible experiments Mengele performed on innocent people, but Mengele and other camp doctors were found to be psychologically normal (Bülow, www.mengele.dk). Mengele and other camp doctors were just men of science and were eager to learn more about Anatomy, and Heredity.
“To learn more about heredity, Dr. Mengele would experiment on twins” (www.ushmm.org). Mengele hated Gypsies, Jews, humans with any birth defect, and humans with disabilities
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Josef Mengele had assumed a false identity under the name Wolfgang Gerhard, a name of one of his former professors at Munich University” (www.history.com). Since Mengele was injured in the German Military, Red Cross still provided him with supplies, even though he was wanted for a high reward. (Bülow, www.mengele.dk). Mengele resided in various locations while hiding from his captors. “One of the first locations Dr. Josef Mengele stayed in was the Guarani Hotel in 1969” (Posner, 211). “Mengele later moved from Paraguay to Brazil. Dr. Josef Mengele lived on 970 Campo Grande Street” (Posner, 156). One day, Mengele went to a beach in Brazil to relax. When Dr. Josef Mengele was going for a swim he suffered from a major stroke. “Some researchers think the stroke was caused by Mengele’s smoking addiction” (Posner, 175). “By the time rescuers found Mengele and dragged him out of the water he had already died” (Bülow,