Personal Life Was born in Gunzburg, Germany in March 16, 1911

The last 25 years of his life ended in pain, poverty and loneliness

Died in Brazil by a stoke in February 7, 1879 at the age of 67

Some say he drowned

He has one child and a divorced wife

Was known as the “Angel of Death”

Wanted to make a master race

Appearance Inmates say the following about Josef…

Handsome

Well groomed

Extremely up right in posture

A gentlemen

Had a cheerful expression

Playful

All of his look were deceiving

Business Life He studied philosophy in Munich in 1920

In Munich, he met high rank Nazis including Hitler

Medical degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main

Enlisted in the Nazi storm troopers in 1933

In 1937 he joined the Nazi Party

Joined the newly founded Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene the next year

During World War II he served as a Gestapo medical officer in France and Russia

Business Life (Continue) In 1943 Heinrich Himmler appointed Mengele chief

physician at Auschwitz- Birkenau

He also worked at Buna

After the War, Mengele escaped the war

He was given a few awards for is heroism during the war Blocks in Auschwitz

Experiments His victims were on hunchbacks, pinheads

hermaphrodites, giants dwarfs, obese men, and corpulent women

In camps he “Selected” people who should die and live

He selected about 1500 set of twins, fewer than 200 were alive after the war

Responsible for killing 400,000 Jews

Fascinated by twins and dwarfs

Evil Deeds He killed his victims himself

after experimenting on them by injecting chloroform into their hearts

Also injected typhus to different people of race, to see how they stood against the disease

Destroyed women's fallopian tubes with acid

Tried to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes

Poisoned 900 set of twins

After The War Josef Mengele was under arrest by the U.S. Army after

World War II He was released after a few months because he

couldn't be well identified Mengele made his way to Genoa to take a ship to South

America. In Genoa, Mengele was held by Italian authorities,

who later apologized for mistakenly arresting him and let him continue to Argentina.

He used many identities to fool people including his best friends name

After the War (Continue) In 1949 Mengele moved to South America

In 1961, Mengele supposedly moved to Brazil

Supposedly home of Josef Dr. Mengele's home in

Paraguay, taken August 2007.

University of Frankfurt Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Bodies

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