Biography of dr josef mengele
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Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele
Dr. Josef Mengele was the most widely known SS physician, infamous for his medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. His racial dogma and inhumane inclinations toward Jews and other non-Aryans were informed by a key influence in his early adult life. Upon earning a Ph.D. in physical anthropology from the University of Munich, the young German became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, a renowned human biologist who shared the Nazi concern for “racial hygiene." Molded by such a mentor, coupled with his own zeal for excelling in his field, Mengele developed into a soldier of biology whose quest it was to understand human genetics and propagate the master (Aryan) race. In particular, both he and his mentor were exponents of twin research. As the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz offered the most abundant supply of human specimen, among whom were likely to be some twins. beneath the patronage of Verschuer, Mengele won grants
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Josef Mengele
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| Nickname | Angel of Death (German: Todesengel),White Angel (German&#;: Der Wießerengel or Wießerengel),Wolfgang Gerhard (Burial Name) |
| Born | ()March 16, Günzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria,German Empire |
| Died | February 7, () (aged&#;67) Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Allegiance | &#;Nazi Germany () |
| Service/branch | Schutzstaffel |
| Years&#;of service | — |
| Rank | Hauptsturmführer, SS (Captain) |
| Commands held | Human medical experimentation performed on prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | Iron Cross First Class Black Badge for the Wounded Medal for the Care of the German People |
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Josef Rudolf Mengele, better known as Doctor Josef Mengele (March 16, – February 7, ), was a GermanNazi SS officer and a physician at Auschwitz concentration camp. There, he worked with Rudolf Höss, the camp's Commandant.
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While Clauberg and Schumann were busy with experiments designed to develop methods for the biological destruction of people regarded bygd the Nazis as undesirable, another medical criminal, SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele, M.D., Ph.D., was researching the issues of twins and the physiology and pathology of dwarfism in close cooperation with the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of antropologi, Genetics, and Eugenics in Berlin-Dahlem. He was also interested in people with different colored irises (heterochromia iridii), and in the etiology and treatment of the gangrenous disease of the face known as noma Faciei (cancrum oris, gangrenous stomatitis), a little understood disease endemic to the Roma and Sinti prisoners in Auschwitz.
In the first phase of the experiments, pairs of twins and persons with inherited anomalies were put at the disposal of Dr. Mengele and subjected to all imaginable expert medical examinations. They were also photographed, plaster casts were made of their jaw