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Dr. Josef Mengele “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele was born on 16 March, 1911 to Karl and Walburga Mengele in [|Bavaria], Germany. He was the eldest of his three siblings. From 1935 to 1937 he studied medicine at Frankfurt University. Then, in 1937, Mengele joined the Nazi party, and the next year he joined the SS. In 1942 he was wounded at the Russian front and was pronounced unfit for duty. After that he volunteered to be a doctor at a concentration camp and he was assigned to Auschwitz. Dr. Josef Mengele’s job at Auschwitz involved choosing who would be immediately gassed or saved for work. Primarily women, children, elders and those with disabilities were his victims. He was known as cold-blooded and cruel; smiling at those whose innocent lives he was ending. One example of his cold-bloodedness was when he was informed that one block was infected with lice; he solved the problem with gassing the 750 women assigned to it. He is frequently referred to as the “Angel of death” because he would always wear a clean white jacket, long white gloves, was considered attractive at the time and was the youngest doctor at Auschwitz. He took advantage of the endless amounts of people coming into Auschwitz to practice a long string of useless and cruel medical experiments. He was famous for doing all of his experiments without an anesthetic. His mad science experiments include sterilization, amputations, shock treatments, and injecting chemicals in eyes in attempt to change the coloring. He was especially interested in twins and dwarves. One experiment he practiced on the twins was taking blood from one child and injecting it into another child, purposely mixing different blood types. He preferred working with twins because he would experiment on one twin until it died and then kill the other twin to compare their autopsies. One of his most brutal experiments was when he attempted to create a pair of conjoined twins by sewing the hands of gypsy twins together. Their hands became infected and the twins died in result. Mengele left Auschwitz in January 1945 after the SS abandoned it. He then went to work at [|Groß Rosen] camp in [|Lower Silesia], still working at as a doctor. Then, in May, he fled America and went to Argentina under the name of Fritz Hollmann. Although he was searched for by German authorities he was not discovered until his death in 1985. In conclusion, I think that Dr. Josef Mengele was an evil perpetrator that killed hundred of thousands of innocent people and brutally tortured many as well.