period 3 5/31/15 research paper Dr. Josef Mengele Dr. Josef Mengele was an SS officer in the most well-known camp in Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945. Dr. Josef Mengele was so dangerous he was given the nickname “The Angel of Death or The God of Auschwitz” (Posher & Ware). He is responsible for killing a substantial amount of people in this concentration camp. He is blamed for all of the people who died in the concentration camps that entered. Dr. Josef Mengele is a monster to people who
During World War II, 1.3 million Jewish adults and 3,000 Jewish children were experimented on by Josef Mengele. This war was very nonsensical and killed 1.6 million people due to gruesome experiments. Many people can kill someone and feel no remorse, but a war kills many people, and most of those people are innocent. There are generally two sides to a war, not necessarily a “good side and bad side” because it is whatever people trust is the “right” side to be on. However, World War II affected the
Josef Mengele has always been recognized as the “Angel of Death”. He was an officer and a doctor at Auschwitz during World War II. Besides being known for making the decision of who was sent to the gas chamber and who was allowed to live, Mengele is also widely known for his famous fascination with twins. Although Mengele has a reputation for being a heinous mistake for a human being, numerous accounts given by twins from Auschwitz testify that he was a friend or a fatherly figure to them, and that
Holocaust; however, Josef Mengele was also a man of evil during the time of the Holocaust. Josef Mengele, did many experiments on the twins and other “inmates” of Auschwitz. Josef Rudolf Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 (“Introduction the the Holocaust”). Mengele’s birth took place in Günzburg, Germany (Posner 400). His parents were Karl and Walburga Mengele. Mengele had three brothers, of which, he was the eldest. The younger brothers names were, Karl Jr. and Alois Mengele (“Introduction to the
Josef Mengele was a famous member of the Nazi party. He lived from 1911 to 1979 and is known for having performed brutal experiments on the prisoners of the concentration camps. When one learns about the childhood of Dr. Mengele, one would never expect him to grow up to be the terrible person he was. On the contrary, as a young man, Mengele was very educated. His schooling made him one of the most qualified people to experiment with human beings. Rumor and conjecture surrounds this man’s entire life