Josef Mengele the Auschwitz Doctor of Death!1
Josef Mengele
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Selection ramp at Birkenau (Mengele is smoking on the right) |
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Josef Mengele was born in Gunzburg, Bavaria on 16 March 1911. After studying philosophy in Munich, Mengele took his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt am Main.
A convinced Nazi, he became after 1934 a research fellow and staff member of the newly founded Institut fur Erbbiologie und Rassenhygiene – Institute of Hereditary Biology and Race Research, where he specialised in the study of twins and racial pedigrees.
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During World War Two, Mengele joined the Waffen-SS and served as a medical officer in France and Russia.He was appointed to the post of Camp Doctor in the Gypsy Family Camp doctor in Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 30 May 1943, where he directed innumerable selections of victims, proving himself to be a ruthless and pitiless implementer of the “Final Solution.”
In Auschwitz Mengele continued to pursue his pseudo- scientific research into presumed racial differences, anomalies of giants and dwarfs, hunchbacks and other deformities.People afflicted with any sort of physical deformity would be killed for him, on his orders, upon their arrival in the death camp, to provide new material for his studies.There was a special dissection ward where autopsies of murdered camp inmates were performed. Mengele was especially interested in medical experiments on twins, hoping to find a method of creating a race of blue-eyed Aryans that would realize the grotesque dreams of Nazi racial science.
Read more about Mengele here:
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/mengele.html
The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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