Mengele Hero's Journey

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

In Dinaw Mengestu's essay "Home at Last", the author describes his transition from Ethiopia to America and describes how the transition was easier for him, as child of 2 than it was for his parents who were far more familiar and entrenched with Ethiopia than he was.

Mengele was cruel and unapologetic. What he did, he believed he did in the name of Germany and science. Perhaps this lack of remorse and guilt is what is most intriguing about him. Mengele had an eventful life from his early years, to what he did in the Holocaust, to the time after the Holocaust was over.

In April of 1943, he became an SS captain and this soon led to Mengele's transfer to Auschwitz, on May 30, 1943. Josef Mengele became known as the “Angel of Death” at Auschwitz, because of his cruelty and cold personality. Mengele had special interests in a variety of human oddities. Among these some of the more grisly and mundane included differentiation in eye color, heredity in identical twins, people with abnormalities such as dwarfism, and pregnant women.

In 1937, after the rise of the Nazi party Josef Mengele exceeded in the SS with a medical degree. He soon was drafted into the army to fight in WW2, but was injured and not suitable for combat.

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

“He cut into me, without anesthetic,...The pain was indescribable. I felt every slice of the knife. Then I saw my kidney pulsating in his hand. I cried like a madman, I cried out the prayer; “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one...And I prayed to die, that I might not suffer this agony any more.” (Hall). This was said by a ‘patient’ of Dr. Josef Mengele, Mr. Yitzhak Ganon. Mr. Ganon was of the survivors of the inhumane experiments that took place in Auschwitz by the hand of the abominable man that is Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was one of the most infamous men associated with the Holocaust, his cruel experiments on twins, jews, gypsies, and the other being held at Auschwitz made him widely known for his cruelty, warranting him the title of “The Angel of Death".

Before you know it, you are standing in front of the man with the baton. Which way will he point, left or right. Those were the thoughts of many jews as they came face to face with the famed Dr. Mengele. Dr. Mengele alone killed over 600,000 jews. Other than Hitler initiating the genocide and being responsible for the deaths, Dr. Mengele by far sentenced the most jews to death.

were not tall enough to the gas chamber. Dr. Mengele would draw a line between 150 and 156 centimeter which is about five feet tall and if a child was not tall enough they were killed. He performed both physical and mental experiments. Some experimental surgeries included transfusions of blood from one twin to another, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. He made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, and incestuous impregnations. Dr. Josef was especially interested in twins. In one of his experiments he took two twins sewing them back to back in attempt to create Siamese twins. This man killed approximately over three thousand twins. But even with all the evidence proving this man

Josef Mengele. He originally was part of the nazi party and was gonna be a soldier, but then he decided that he was gonna join the SS and be a doctor. That’s when his real career began, he started by treating the people of Auschwitz. But he wasn't the only physician at the camp, he was joined by doctor Eduard Wirths. In an article about Josef it talks about what he did before he was the chief camp physician “Mengele began his career at Auschwitz in the spring of 1943 as the medical officer responsible for Birkenau's “Gypsy camp”(ushmm)” . It only took Mengele a little while till he started using his power has chief physician to do experiments on the people. He would put chemicals and solutions in his body and see how they would react to it. He was famous for his research with twins, he would inspect the twins in order to trace the genetic origins of various diseases. He was never scared of killing his patients because he knew that he would always have more to “play” with, in an article about him it says “At Auschwitz, with full license to maim or kill his subjects, Mengele performed a broad range of agonizing and often lethal experiments with Jewish and Gypsy twins, most of them children(ushmm)”.He earned the name “Angel of Death” or “White Angel” because he was responsible for killing so many people through his

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, spent 30 years on the run from officials and was never caught(“After”). Josef Mengele was a German doctor. He conducted experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. He was also a war criminal after the ending of the war. Josef Mengele intensified WWII in many ways, and this will be shown through his life, in Auschwitz, and in South America.

18. Mengele came to be a name feared by most living in the camp; it was well known he was not someone to be crossed

It is said that Mengele “knew exactly why they were there and how killing Jews could advance their careers.” (Wistrich 229) With this being said, there is no doubt as to why survivors and governments have tried to track down Dr. Mengele for countless years after the war. However, is it possible that there might have been a soft side to this man? After all, some twins did call him “Uncle Mengele”; he had to care for them at least a little bit to make sure that they stay alive, even if for his evil necessities. “Yet even Mengele, a music

Born into a wealthy family, he was also brought up strictly Catholic. Dr. Mengele, full name Joseph Rudolf Mengele, was given the nickname ‘The Angel of Death’ for a reason. Mengele chose to study philosophy in the city of Munich and he also entered radical ideology from Alfred Rosenberg. When he was 20, he joined the Stahlhelm, and then in 1933 he chose to apply for SA and party membership. Once he was accepted into the Nazi party, he was labeled the chief doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp. He studies at the University of Frankfurt and joined the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in 1934. (History.co) The name ‘Angel of Death’ from his extraordinary experiments, which had taken place in the form many different methods. Methods such as pressure chambers, castration, drugs and freezing were popular. (Louis Bülow) Many had cause fatality from the bizarre actions that had taken place. He had a fascination with twins. Mengele focused on children for his experimentation. He would be extra kind to them, make them trust him. This made the children listen to him, thinking that they would get something good out of it such as food or toys. The children, especially twins, did not know what was ahead of them. They didn’t know the ‘objectives’ of his experiments. Mengele has a pathology lab where he performed autopsies on the dead twins that had been built next to the crematorium. As for

The life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s life and post-mortem fate could be divided into three different chapters. His pre-war life and life during World War II was one of privilege and freedom to satisfy his perverse desire to perform bizarre and mostly useless medical