Dr. Josef Mengele“The Angel of Death”

• 3.16.1911: Born in Bavaria, Germany

• Intelligent, proper, well-liked in his home town

• Studied philosophy at Munich University

• Earned doctorate of Medicine at Frankfurt University

• 1935: Doctoral dissertation was on the racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw

• 1937: Officially joined the Nazi party

• 1938: Became a member of the SS

• 1942: Injured in front lines against Russia

•Declared “unfit for duty”

• Volunteered to work at concentration camps

• Sent to Auschwitz

• Became chief physician

•Decided “death to the left, life to the right”

Infamous Experiments• Very Obsessed with

twins

•How long would it take to bleed to death?

• Live dissections

• Sewed together identical twins to make them conjoined twins

• even joined arteries, removed organs

Infamous Experiments

•Castration without anesthesia

• Tested endurance of electric shock

• Tested endurance of hypothermia

•How long did it take to freeze to death?

Infamous Experiments

• Tested endurance of burns

•What temperatures made 1st, 2nd, & 3rd degree burns?

Infamous Experiments

• Tested endurance to radiation

• Sterilized a group of Polish nuns with X-Ray

Infamous Experiments

•How much pressure did it take to crush a human skull?

• Injected chemicals to change eye color

• Patients were conscious

Infamous Experiments

• Tested for length of survival without certain organs

• Experimental sex-change operations

• Artificially inseminated incestuous impregnation

After Camp Liberation

• Fled to Argentina

• Safe haven for Nazi war criminals under Juan Peron

• Set up farming equipment business

Infamous Experiments

•Moved around to Brazil & Paraguay to avoid being caught

• 1979: Suffered stroke while swimming in the ocean

•Dead before he was brought to shore