Ww2 doctor mengele biography

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Mengele was in shock because no one had prepared him for this; he had never undergone training in concentration camps like the guards had. For example, Janusz Korczak, after his long studies, stated that, unfortunately, he must say with sadness that for some children, it would have been better not to be born than to live in the misery and tragedy they had to endure.

Of course, the children are not aware of why Mengele gives them chocolate and provides them with milk. It's a subject that can be studied on many, many levels and is, in my opinion, still relevant. So, there are some documents. When Mossad captured Eichmann, fear fell upon Mengele as well, thinking that they probably knew where he was and would soon find him, capture him, take him to Israel, and put him on trial.

It seems to me that it would be quite obvious, and he would wear it proudly—the black or silver wound badge—if he had indeed been seriously wounded and awarded such a decoration, especially since he wore the Iron Crosses he received for bravery with pride. Well, here is an interesting question because, from the point of view of the usefulness of his research for the war industry—which the Third Reich focused on—they weren't particularly significant.

Verschuer later became the head of the Institute of Biology and Heredity at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and in 1937, Josef Mengele joined him. But he was quite a decent student—a calm guy who simply aimed to achieve success in science. Their skeletons were then prepared and sent as exhibits for medical students. In 1985, after a large reward had been offered in Israel for information leading to his capture, it was announced that Josef  Mengele had probably died in a swimming accident in Embu, Brazil on 7 February 1979.

In July 1985, a body, presumed to be that of Mengele, was exhumed in Brazil and autopsied by an international panel of forensic pathologists.

This is also a lesson for our morality. But we need to consider the knowledge people had in the 1930s and 1940s compared to what we possess now. He accepted assignments from his superiors and colleagues from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. His main tasks, apart from initially being the chief doctor in the camp for Roma and Sinti families, were studies on twins, the physiology and pathology of dwarfism, heterochromia of the iris, congenital anomalies, and noma.

Especially many Survivors—victims of Mengele—didn't want to believe that he was dead.

Among his numerous experiments, Mengele conducted studies aimed at understanding the genetic factors of twins, which included lethal injections, surgeries without anesthesia, and other painful procedures. His parents, Karl and Walburga, became tycoons in the production of agricultural machinery.

So young Mengele was one of the few students in Munich at that time who owned a car.

This somewhat placed him in the social elite of the university. However, it was evident that he was very spoiled by his parents, which his fellow students mention and which he himself writes about in his diaries. So, these experiments mainly involved comparative studies on genetics, heredity, and related issues. I want to point out that, to us today, these experiments may seem pseudoscientific and senseless.

Hence, these extraordinary stories about Mengele arose—that he was hiding in the jungle, that he had built a fortress guarded by armed men with dogs, that Mengele was conducting experiments in Brazil in a village where only twins were being born.

Because there was a war, conducting scientific research was difficult; there weren't many research subjects, and it wasn't a priority. Therefore, this legend about Mengele as someone who sewed children together probably came from this. Similarly, the notion of Mengele's constant presence on the unloading and selection ramp.