Josef Mengele, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Josef Mengele

Nazi officer and physician

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1911

Place of Birth: Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1979

Profession: politician, physician writer, military physician, anthropologist, war criminal

Nationality: Germany, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Josef Mengele

  • Josef Mengele (['jo?z?f 'm???l?] (listen); 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979), also known as the Angel of Death (German: Todesengel) and the White Angel (German: der Weisse Engel or Weißer Engel), was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
  • He performed deadly human experiments on prisoners and was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be killed in the gas chambers.
  • Arrivals that were judged able to work were admitted into the camp, while those deemed unsuitable for labor were sent to the gas chambers to be killed.
  • With Red Army troops sweeping through Poland, Mengele was transferred 280 kilometers (170 mi) from Auschwitz to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp on 17 January 1945, just ten days before the arrival of the Soviet forces at Auschwitz.
  • After the war, he fled to South America where he evaded capture for the rest of his life. Before the war, Mengele had received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher.
  • He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938.
  • He was assigned as a battalion medical officer at the start of World War II, then transferred to the Nazi concentration camps service in early 1943 and assigned to Auschwitz, where he saw the opportunity to conduct genetic research on human subjects.
  • His subsequent experiments focused primarily on twins, with little or no regard for the health or safety of the victims.Mengele sailed to Argentina in July 1949, assisted by a network of former SS members.
  • He initially lived in and around Buenos Aires, then fled to Paraguay in 1959 and Brazil in 1960, while being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal who wanted to bring him to trial.
  • Mengele eluded capture in spite of extradition requests by the West German government and clandestine operations by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
  • He drowned in 1979 after suffering a stroke while swimming off the Brazilian coast, and was buried under the false name Wolfgang Gerhard.
  • Mengele's remains were disinterred and positively identified by forensic examination in 1985.

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