Dr. mengeles biography

(1911-1979)

Synopsis

An ardent Nazi, In 1943 Josef Mengele was appointed by Heinrich Himmler to be chief doctor at Birkenau, the supplementary extermination camp at Auschwitz, where he and his staff selected incoming Jews for labor or extermination and where he supervised medical experiments on inmates to discover means of increasing fertility (to increase the German “race”).

• Name: Josef Mengele
• Birth Year: 1911
• Birth date: March 16, 1911
• Birth City: Günzburg
• Birth Country: Germany
• Gender: Male
• Best Known For: Josef Mengele was a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp who selected prisoners for execution in gas chambers and led medical experiments on inmates.
• Industries
• Astrological Sign: Pisces
• Schools
• University of Frankfurt am Main
• Nacionalities
• Death Year: 1979
• Death date: February 7, 1979
• Death City: Enseada da Bertioga
• Death Country: Brazil

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Josef Mengele

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Introduction

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Josef Mengele (Photo)

Josef Mengele, German physician and SS captain.  He was the most prominent of a group of Nazi doctors who conducted medical experiments that often caused great harm or death to the prisoners.  In November 1943 Mengele became "Chief Camp Physician" of Auschwitz II (Birkenau).  Many of those subjected to Mengele's experiments died as a result or were murdered in order to facilitate post-mortem examination. 

Credits:

• National Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Josef Mengele is one of the most infamous figures of the Holocaust. His service at Auschwitz and the medical experiments he conducted there have made him the most widely recognized perpetrator of the crimes committed at that camp. His postwar life in hiding has come to represent the international failure to bring the perpetrators of Nazi crimes to

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Josef Mengele

Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979)

"Mengele" redirects here. For other uses, see Mengele (disambiguation).

Josef Rudolf Mengele (German:[ˈjoːzɛfˈmɛŋələ]^ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). He performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) koncentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers,^[a] and was one of the doctors who administered the gas.

Before the war, Mengele received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938. He was assigned as a battalion medical officer at the start of World War II, then transferred to the Nazi concentra