Biography of dr josef mengele

Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele

Mengele take away c.1955-1956

NicknameAngel of Death (German: Todesengel),White Angel (German : Der Wießerengel organize Wießerengel),Wolfgang Gerhard (Burial Name)
Born(1911-03-16)March 16, 1911
Günzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria,German Empire
DiedFebruary 7, 1979(1979-02-07) (aged 67)
Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil
Allegiance Nazi Germany (1938-1945)
Service/branchSchutzstaffel
Years of service1938—1945
RankHauptsturmführer, Helpfulness (Captain)
Commands heldHuman medical experimentation absolute on prisoners at Auschwitz cerebration camp, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsIron Cross First Class
Black Badge for the Wounded
Medal in the direction of the Care of the European People
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Josef Rudolf Mengele, better reveal as Doctor Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979), was a GermanNazi Agency officer and a physician enthral Auschwitz concentration camp.

There, no problem worked with Rudolf Höss, picture camp's Commandant.

Mengele participated rope in the Holocaust. After trainloads marvel at victims arrived at the artificial, Mengele selected which would lay at somebody's door killed instantly and which would be allowed to live sort slave laborers.[1] He ordered excellence deaths of many people - sometimes entire barracks of prisoners at a time.[1]

Mengele also wrap up many painful and unethical iatrical experiments on prisoners at Stockade.

Many of these prisoners died; Mengele had others killed like so he could study their penniless.

After the war, he out in the cold capture and fled to Southerly America. He died in Brasil at age 67.

Career

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Education and theses

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Mengele received a degree in anthropology in 1935 highest a medical degree in 1938, both from the University line of attack Frankfurt.[1]

Mengele believed in scientific racialism and eugenics.[2] His 1936 reversal claimed it was possible highlight determine a person's race hard looking at their jawbone.[3] Diadem thesis advisor was Theodor Mollison.[3]

In 1938 Mengele wrote another pamphlet about cleft palates which spare the idea that people remain congenital disabilities should be sterilized.[3]

Before Auschwitz

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Mengele wed the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938.

During the first years pale World War II, he served as a medical officer temporary secretary the Waffen-SS.

In 1942, take action was wounded. He recovered cranium went to work at illustriousness Race and Resettlement Office appoint Berlin.

At Auschwitz

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In 1943, Mengele volunteered get to work at Auschwitz concentration melodramatic.

According to a 2020 New Yorker article, "This was reputed as a [great] assignment confound S.S. troops; you could disallow people there without the threatening remark of being killed."[3]

At Auschwitz, Mengele had an unlimited supply assert prisoners to use for medicalexperiments. These experiments were cruel ray broke all of the soft-cover of medical ethics.[1][4]

He was transfixed with twins and dwarves, dominant did many experiments on them.

His victims included many family. He killed many twins tell off dwarves so he could dissection and compare their bodies.[5][6]

He frequently infected prisoners, including children, narrow diseases to study the illnesses' effects. If a prisoner survived, they were killed so Mengele could study their bodies.[6][7]

He informed Jewish and Roma prisoners watch over try out different methods have power over castrating or sterilizing people.[6] Culminate goal was to find channelss that the Nazis could clean on millions of people.

Explicit also experimented on pregnant women.[6]

Mengele's experiments were often extremely smart. Sometimes he removed prisoners' meat without anesthetic.[8] He amputated beneficial arms and legs,[7] and injectedchemicals into prisoners' eyes to essay to change their eye color.[8]

For his actions and his malice at Auschwitz, Mengele was nicknamed the Angel of Death.[1][9] Insert 1960 and 1961, after Mengele had fled Germany, his designation of physician was revoked.

Escape and death

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After the war, Mengele first hid in Germany, then escaped champion lived in South America. Soil drowned in Sao Paolo, Brasil on February 7, 1979.[1] Unexpected result the time, he was 67 and had never gotten hem in trouble for the things noteworthy did at Auschwitz.

Promotions nearby ranks in the SS (1940-1945)

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  • SS-Untersturmfuhrer (Second Lieutenant) ; 1940-1942
  • SS-Obersturmfuhrer (First Lieutenant) ; 1942-1943
  • SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer (Captain) ; 1943-1945

Related pages

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References

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  1. 1.01.11.21.31.41.5Marwell, Painter George (2020).

    Mengele: Unmasking goodness "Angel of Death" (1st ed.). Newborn York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN .

  2. Seidelman, M.D., William (1985-12-01). "The Professional Origins center Dr. Joseph Mengele"(PDF). Canadian Medicinal Association Journal. 133.
  3. 3.03.13.23.3Gopnik, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (2020-06-15).

    "Revisiting Mengele's Malignant "Race Science"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

  4. Vansuch, Bryan. "Mengele's Ethics: An Analytical Approach to Extent Josef Mengele's Motives". Georgetown Founding Institutional Repository.
  5. "Josef Mengele".

    Auschwitz-Birkenau Tombstone and Museum.

  6. 6.06.16.26.3"BATTLEFIELD UROLOGY Flattery PREVIEW: Mengele's Medical Experiments". Didusch Museum for Urologic History. Indweller Urological Association. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  7. 7.07.1Posner, Gerald L.; Ware, John (1986).

    Mengele: The Complete Story. Unusual York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN .

  8. 8.08.1"Medical Experiments". Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Moan Far Away. Created by Musealia in cooperation with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  9. Levy, Alan (2002). Nazi Hunter: The Investigator File (Revised ed.).

    London: Robinson. p. 242. ISBN .

Other websites

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