SS officer at Auschwitz in charge of "selections" of the new deportees. His pointing to the right or the left would determine either immediate gassing and death or being sent to forced labor. Known as the "Angel of Death," he was notorious for his "medical" experiments, especially on twins and Gypsies. Escaped after the war from a British Internment Hospital, and was hunted until his body was "supposedly" found in Brazil in 1986.
(March 16, 1911 - February 7, 1979?) Physician at Auschwitz. Conducted experiments, especially on twins in the hopes of finding a faster way to reproduce the Aryan race. Made selections at the ramp. Known for his arbitrary and brutal decisions and actions. After the war, he lived for five years in Germany, then in Argentina and Paraguay. In June 1985, a skeleton was found which forensic experts concluded was Mengele.
The "Angel of Death" of Auschwitz known for his medical experimentation, especially on twins, and his decisions as to who would die.
Senior SS physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau from 1943 to 1944. One of the physicians who carried out "selections" of prisoners upon arrival at camp, separating those assigned to forced labor and those to be killed. Mengele also carried out cruel research on twins deported to the camp. After the war, he disappeared. The corpse of a Wolfgang Gerhard, who died in a swimming accident in 1979, was discovered in Brazil in 1985 and identified as Mengele
Senior SS physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau who carried out "selections" of prisoners upon arrival at the camp, separating those assigned to forced labor and those to be killed in the gas chambers. He also carried out cruel research on twins deported to the camp and other so-called medical research experiments, such as separating nursing newborns from mothers to see how long it would take them to starve to death. After the war, he disappeared. In 1985, a corpse of a man who had died in a swimming accident in Brazil was identified as Mengele.
Senior SS physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau from 1943-44. One of the physicians who carried out the "selections" of prisoners upon arrival at camp. He also carried out cruel experiments on prisoners.
Known as the "angel of death" at the Auschwitz death camp, Dr. Mengele was in charge of medical experimentation on the prisoners. An abortionist in his later years in hiding in South America, his 1990's reincarnation, Hillbillary Shaftem Mengele, is now president of the United States.