Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911-1979) · Germany · Doctors · Died at 67
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Something wrong?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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Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Birkenau, May/June 1944
(from l. to r.) Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, and Rudolf Höss at Solahütte in 1944 (Höcker Album)
Jewish children kept alive in Auschwitz for use in Mengele's research. They were liberated in January 1945.
Photograph from Mengele's Argentine identification document in 1956![Forensic anthropologists examine Mengele's skull in 1986. The skeleton is stored at the São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine in Brazil.[146]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Mengele_US_Navy_Medicine_%28page_10_crop%29.jpg/1280px-Mengele_US_Navy_Medicine_%28page_10_crop%29.jpg)
Forensic anthropologists examine Mengele's skull in 1986. The skeleton is stored at the São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine in Brazil.[146]In their own words 4
, There can't be two smart peoples in the world. We're going to win the war, so only the Aryan race will stand.
Even the Russians are fighting us. They've brought in Jewish pilots, nurses, and doctors. Everybody's ganging up on us. We didn't think it would happen this way.
The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world.
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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.
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