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.
Career Journey
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
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"There can't be two smart peoples in the world. We're going to win the war, so only the Aryan race will stand."
"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."
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1911
Born
Birth1979
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Josef's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Josef's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Josef Mengele is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the fact that the flesh o…"
— John Harvey Kellogg"This dialogue between the ongoing research in brain science and art continue to this day. ...Such dialogues…"
— Eric Kandel"As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known."
— William Harvey"Nationalism has been the great curse of humanity. In no other shape has the Demon of Ignorance assumed more…"
— William Osler"Diogenes the Cynic, it is related, was mighty of all people in regard to everything from self-control to en…"
— Galen"From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste."
— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
