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Dr. Josef Mengele

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.

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Dr. Josef Mengele

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  1. Dr. Josef Mengele • “The Angel of Death”

  2. 3.16.1911: Born in Bavaria, Germany • Intelligent, proper, well-liked in his home town

  3. Studied philosophy at Munich University • Earned doctorate of Medicine at Frankfurt University

  4. 1935: Doctoral dissertation was on the racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw

  5. 1937: Officially joined the Nazi party • 1938: Became a member of the SS

  6. 1942: Injured in front lines against Russia • Declared “unfit for duty”

  7. Volunteered to work at concentration camps • Sent to Auschwitz • Became chief physician • Decided “death to the left, life to the right”

  8. 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

  9. Infamous Experiments • Castration without anesthesia • Tested endurance of electric shock • Tested endurance of hypothermia • How long did it take to freeze to death?

  10. Infamous Experiments • Tested endurance of burns • What temperatures made 1st, 2nd, & 3rd degree burns?

  11. Infamous Experiments • Tested endurance to radiation • Sterilized a group of Polish nuns with X-Ray

  12. Infamous Experiments • How much pressure did it take to crush a human skull? • Injected chemicals to change eye color • Patients were conscious

  13. Infamous Experiments • Tested for length of survival without certain organs • Experimental sex-change operations • Artificially inseminated incestuous impregnation

  14. After Camp Liberation • Fled to Argentina • Safe haven for Nazi war criminals under Juan Peron • Set up farming equipment business

  15. 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

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