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Dr. Josef Mengele“The Angel of Death”
• 3.16.1911: Born in Bavaria, Germany
• Intelligent, proper, well-liked in his home town
• Studied philosophy at Munich University
• Earned doctorate of Medicine at Frankfurt University
• 1935: Doctoral dissertation was on the racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw
• 1937: Officially joined the Nazi party
• 1938: Became a member of the SS
• 1942: Injured in front lines against Russia
•Declared “unfit for duty”
• Volunteered to work at concentration camps
• Sent to Auschwitz
• Became chief physician
•Decided “death to the left, life to the right”
Infamous Experiments• Very Obsessed with
twins
•How long would it take to bleed to death?
• Live dissections
• Sewed together identical twins to make them conjoined twins
• even joined arteries, removed organs
Infamous Experiments
•Castration without anesthesia
• Tested endurance of electric shock
• Tested endurance of hypothermia
•How long did it take to freeze to death?
Infamous Experiments
• Tested endurance of burns
•What temperatures made 1st, 2nd, & 3rd degree burns?
Infamous Experiments
• Tested endurance to radiation
• Sterilized a group of Polish nuns with X-Ray
Infamous Experiments
•How much pressure did it take to crush a human skull?
• Injected chemicals to change eye color
• Patients were conscious
Infamous Experiments
• Tested for length of survival without certain organs
• Experimental sex-change operations
• Artificially inseminated incestuous impregnation
After Camp Liberation
• Fled to Argentina
• Safe haven for Nazi war criminals under Juan Peron
• Set up farming equipment business
Infamous Experiments
•Moved around to Brazil & Paraguay to avoid being caught
• 1979: Suffered stroke while swimming in the ocean
•Dead before he was brought to shore