# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-mengele
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:14.313Z

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name: "Josef Mengele"
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description: "A physician who selected prisoners for the gas chambers at Auschwitz and conducted experiments on those who survived the selection. He evaded capture for thirty-four years across three continents."
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birthDate: "1911-03-16"
deathDate: "1979-02-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mengele held doctorates in anthropology and medicine before joining the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938. He served as a battalion medical officer early in World War II, then transferred to the concentration camp system in 1943 and was assigned to Auschwitz, where he joined the team of doctors performing selections and carried out genetic research on prisoners. Ten days before Soviet forces arrived, he was transferred to Gross-Rosen. In July 1949 he fled to Argentina with help from former SS networks, then moved to Paraguay in 1959 and Brazil in 1960 while West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters pursued him. He drowned in 1979 after a stroke while swimming off the Brazilian coast and was buried under a false name; his remains were identified by forensic examination in 1985 and DNA analysis in 1992.