Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research and experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers.
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Background
- Born in
- Günzburg
- Educated at
- Goethe University FrankfurtLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- 🏆 Wound Badge (1939) in Black🏆 Iron Cross🏆 Eastern Medal🏆 Honour Chevron for the Old Guard🏆 War Merit Cross
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Theodor Mollison
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Trending topics shown first"Even the Russians are fighting us. They've brought in Jewish pilots, nurses, and doctors. Everybody's ganging up on us. We didn't think it would happen this way."
"There can't be two smart peoples in the world. We're going to win the war, so only the Aryan race will stand."
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1911
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Birth1979
Died
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