Josef Mengele (March 16th 1911 - February 7th 1979) was a doctor German Nazi which carried out particularly sadistic experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, and took part in the selection of the sendings towards the gas chambers.
After the war, it was not never taken and lived 35 years in Latin America under various pseudonyms, of which that of Wolfgang Gerhard under which it was buried in 1979 with the Brésil.
Its nickname was “ Beppo ”; it is also known under the nickname of “ angel of the mort ”.
Biography
Josef is the elder one of three wire of Karl Mengele (1881 - 1959) and of his wife Walburga († 1946), of Bavarian industrial rich person. His/her brothers name Karl (1912 - 1949) and Qualities (1914 - 1974). Josef studied the Médecine and the Anthropologie with the Université of Munich, the Université of Vienna and the Université of Bonn. With Munich it obtained a doctorate of anthropology in 1935 with a thesis on the lower structure of the jaw, supervised by Doctor Theodor Mollison. It left then for Frankfurt, where it worked as assistant of Otmar von Verschuer at the hereditary Institute of biology and racial hygiene. In 1938, it obtained its doctorate in medicine.In 1932, at the 21 years age, it joined Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (Iron Helmet, leagues soldiers of the face), organization which was integrated into SA in 1933. Mengele resigned little of time afterwards, pleading health issues. It adhered to NSDAP in 1937 and joined the S in 1938. During the winter 1938 - 1939 it was used 6 months with a mountain regiment as light infantry especially involved. In 1940 it was placed in a medical community of reserve, after which it served three years in a unit Waffen-SS. In 1942, it was wounded on the face Russian, decorated with the Croix of iron first class, and was declared médicalement inapt for the combat.
In reward of its behavior shining with the combat, it was promoted SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain). Its following assignment was Auschwitz-Birkenau, where it replaced a sick doctor. The May 24th 1943, he becomes the medical officer of the Camp of the gipsies , part of Birkenau. In August 1944, this camp was liquidated and all its prisoners gauzes. Mengele then became head doctor of the camp of Birkenau. It was not, however, the general head doctor of Auschwitz, assigned role in SS-Standortartz (Doctor of garrison) Eduard Wirths.
It was during the 21 month which it spent to Auschwitz that Doctor Mengele acquired his reputation and his nickname of “angel of death”. When the trains arrived at the camp, Mengele was frequently present to ensure a selection of those which would be retained for work or of the medical experiments, and those which would be immediately sent to the Gas chamber.
Mengele was interested particularly in the Jumeau X. Starting from 1943, the twins were selected and placed in special hutments. All the experiments of Mengele of a doubtful scientific interest and were stripped of ethics. They included/understood attempts to change the color of the eyes by injecting various products directly in the eye and, in at least a case, an attempt at artificial creation “Siamese twins” by connecting between them the veins of two twins. This operation was a failure coming to anything only to infect the hands of the twins concerned. The subjects of the experiments were almost always carried out thereafter for dissection, by supposing that they survive the experiment itself.
Josef Mengele left Auschwitz for the camp of Large-Rosen in January 1945. In April 1945, it flees towards the west while being disguised as a regular infantryman. It was captured like Prisoner of war and was retained close to Nuremberg. It was slackened by the allies which had not identified it (it did not have the distinctive tattooing of the S.S.). After being itself hidden like farm hand into High Bavaria, and, with the assistance of the network of exfiltration of Nazi criminals set up by the bishop Qualities Hudal, it could leave for the Argentine in 1949.
He divorced his Irene wife and, in 1958, he married the widow of his brother Karl, Martha. She and her son joined it. Both returned to Europe a few years later, when one started to seek it.
Its family supported it financially and it thrived during the Années 1950, by managing a store of toys and as associated later in a pharmaceutical company. After this short period, he lived rather poorly. In 1959, it left for the Paraguay and in 1960 joined the Brésil, where it lived until its death in 1979: struck down by an heart attack during a bathe has Bertioga, it drowned. An examination of DNA makes by the legists of UNICAMP (Université of Campinas) confirmed the identity of Mengele.
Josef Mengele responsible for died of almost 400.000 people
Research efforts
In spite of the international efforts to find it, it never was taken and lived 35 years under various pseudonyms. The capture of Adolf Eichmann and its lawsuit in Israel increased its fears and made it frequently change shelter. The Mossad sought it during a certain time, but the efforts of Israel aimed standardizing the relations with Paraguay and at fighting closer enemies. He was not sought by the police force before 1985, when its body was located by a combined effort of the American authorities, German and South American. Indeed, in the last years of its life, it had used the name of Wolfgang Gerhard which was an old S that it had met in South America. The tomb of certain Wolfgang Gerhard was thus found and after exhumation, it was identified in 1992 by genetic tests on its bones. Truth Wolfgang Gerhard deceased and is buried in Austria in 1978.
Anecdotes
Josef Mengele becomes as from the Seventies a literary and cinematographic character: These boys who came from Brazil , ( The Boys from Brazil , 1978), Marathon Man (1976), Only the truth ( Nichts als die Wahrheit , 1999).The group of Thrash Metal Slayer evokes off the atrocities of Josef Mengele in their title Angel Death (1986, album Reign in Blood).
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