By 1940, he was drafted into the army, where he volunteered in the medical service of the armed forces of the SS and served as a medical expert for the Main Race and Settlement Office. After participating in acts of war on the eastern front, Mengele was wounded, he returned to Germany in early 1943 where he began working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute which focused on Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics. Later that year, he was named doctor of the military garrison SS concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau built after the invasion Poland in 1939. There, under the command of SS captain Dr. Eduard Wirths, he became responsible of selecting those fit for work and those destined for the gas chambers. It was through this that he soon earned him the nickname " angel of death "or" white angel "for performing this selection in a cold and unforgiving…
Mengele performed horrific experiments on his victims, studying the effects of drugs and poisons on the twins, using one as the human guinea pig, the other as the controlled.…
Joseph McCarthy was a former U.S Senator that created much controversy in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Around this time, a lot of Americans worried and feared about communism coming to United States. Joseph McCarthy took advantage of this and made a huge allegation that 250 of the U.S. government official were communist. McCarthy was able to make this claim without any evidence because people already feared the thought of communism being in America.For about 5 years, McCarthy claimed several athletes,actors, and even the military to be communist. A term called “Red Baiting” became popular for what McCarthy was doing, wrongfully accusing people of being communist. Even average Joes feared this because they could easily be accused by someone just…
Do you know any sets of twins? Josef Mengele loved experimenting on twins, he experimented on over 3,000 twins in Auschwitz. Josef Mengele was an SS physician, infamous for his inhumane medical experiments mainly based on twins. He believed twins held the secret to perfect genetic specimens. Josef Mengele was born on March 16,1911 and died of drowning on February 7,1974. He was referred to as “The Angel of Death” for the inhumane experiments performed on Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp. Josef Mengele was a well known doctor and a part of the Nazi party known for his cruel and inhumane experiments towards people in concentration camps, especially twins.…
Josef Mengele was born March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany (Josef Mengele Britannica). He was the oldest of three children, his brothers included Alois Mengele and Karl Mengele Jr (Bulow, Louis). His brother Karl Jr later went on to own a huge firm that made and sold ag equipment…
Dr.Mengele was born in march 16, in germany. He studied all his life and didn't want to be anything else but a doctor. There isn't much about his childhood that would be important. joseph mengele parents are Karl and walburga mengele.(satx.rr.com). He had two brothers Alois, and karl jr. Walburga ruled her household with an equal amount of firmness, demanding respect and obedience.(mindcontrolforums.com). Joseph mengele described his father as a very cold man , distant and preoccupied with his work.(mindcontrolforums.com). In 1938 dr.mengele obtained a doctorate in medicine and anthropolgy he did this in the university of munich. Dr.mengele had applied to be a member of the nazi party and in this same year 1938 he joined the ss.(wikipedia.org). joined the SS. Mengele fought in the Russian campaign but he was so badly wounded that he was considered unfit for frontline military service. After recovering from…
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. He lived a horrendous childhood, being abused by his father and witnessing multiple siblings die. Adolf was the fourth of six children, although three of his older siblings had passed away in infancy. His younger brother, Edmund, passed away at 11 years old due to measles, this death reportedly had a very big effect on Hitler's life.…
Dr. Josef Mengele was a horrible person. He was on of the host feared Nazi doctors. His parents didn’t love him and they were never really there for him. People that grow up like that usually see the world differently. The people that were sent to Auschwitz and were experimented on by Mengele experienced the worst of humanity. He took this horrific situation and made it worse - if that was even possible. The level of his brutality was so extreme, that we should study what he did, so it will never happen…
Lastly, Nazi’s doctors took advantage of the prisoners using them as test subjects for their own experiments. For war purposes, German physicians tested multiple scenarios that might occur while fighting. In the article Josef Mengele, by Michael Berenbaum, explains,…
It was March 16, 1411, when Josef Mengele was born into the small town Günzburg, Germany as the eldest son, raised by his parents, Karl and Walburga Mengele. The people in Josef’s hometown acknowledged him as an intelligent boy. Moreover, he was also refined and popular. In 1930 he graduated from high school and transcended into the University Of Munich. There he had studied…
Dr. Mengele is an Auschwitz doctor born on March 1911. He grew up studying medicine, Biology, and Racial Hygiene after being accepted into the Nazi party. His career was interrupted by the war and was placed within the reserve medical corps and a Waffen SS unit. He then was served as a medical officer to do experiments, brutal experiments and was nicknamed as the “Angel of Death”. This put him in charge of thousands and…
“I thought that the whole world was a concentration camp. And I concentrated on one single thing. How to survive one more day. How to survive one more experiment. How not to get sick” - Eva Kol, Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, Forgiving Dr. Mengele…
The horrifying medical experiments that took place during the holocaust are an insult to humanity. Not only did the experiments violate the basic rights of human beings, but they were absolutely sick and horrible. This topic is a very uncomfortable one and makes you question the minds of the people who conducted these experiments, but it is one that we need to be educated on so that we can make sure history doesn't repeat itself. These experiments are split up into three main categories. The categories were Medico-Military research, Miscellaneous, and radically motivated experiments. All of these experiments were conducted without the patient's consent. Over twenty of the doctors who performed experiments on concentration camp prisoners were…
The people who were considered unfit to work, like young children, the elderly, pregnant women and the mentally ill, were immediately ordered to take showers. Unaware the bathhouses to which they went too were death trapped disguised gas chambers full and ready to pump Zyklon-B poison gas. Nonetheless, Auschwitz I also had SS physicians which carried out medical experiments on their prisoners. They conducted crazy experiments on infants, twins, dwarfs, and performed castrations on adults with no anesthesia. The worst and most popular physician was known as SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele began his career in Auschwitz II as a medical doctor. Josef Mengele was known by the name of "Angel of Death." He was named that because of the cruel and demented work he experimented on people. (Staff,…
Three journals were found in Oświęcim Poland 71 years after the end of WW II. These journals were written by various individuals but they all share a strange characteristic: they are connected to Josef Mengele, a malicious man who performed unimaginable medical experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz. Each journal is written from a different person. Two journals that were discovered were written by a pair of twins both of which were 14 year old girls. These girls were named Agata and Ania Bal and they were both victims of the experiments performed by Dr. Josef Mengele. The last journal that was found was written from a 20 year old woman named Alicja Kowal.…