An Essay On Josef Mengele

Being able to remain hidden for the remainder of your life is not an easy feat, however, the Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele managed to do just that. Mengele was an SS officer and physician for the Nazis during World War II, he conducted some very disturbing experiments on those in the concentration camps during World War II. Mengele performed all of his experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945. Mengele had a particular interest in twins and the majority, if not all of his experiments were performed on sets of twins. Following the war, Mengele fled Germany, escaping to South America, living out the rest of his life there. Dr. Josef Mengele was an intelligent man who became a doctor for the Nazi party, conducting heinous experiments; he ultimately escaped his persecution and lived out the rest of his life in secret under a plethora of monikers that were not his own.

Josef Rudolf Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 as the second son of a prosperous Bavarian family. His father, Karl, was founder of the Karl Mengele & Sons farm machinery company. Mengele lived with his mother, Walburga, and his brothers Karl Jr. and Alois (Astor). Early on in his life Mengele developed an interest in music, art, and skiing, and was known as a serious student with pronounced intellect and aspiration (“Josef Mengele”). His high school career ended in April 1930 and he continued on to study medicine and philosophy at the University of Munich. In 1935, Mengele earned a PhD in anthropology from the University of Munich (Astor).

In 1937, at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, he was assigned as an assistant to Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a scientist who conducted genetics research, with an interes...

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... help for his seriously ill wife and son in 1971, when he left, he left his identity card to Mengele (Levy). The Stammers and Mengele had had a bit of a tiff in late 1974, the Stammers then bought a house in Sao Paulo, without Mengele joining them. So that Mengele would not be left out on the street, the Stammers purchased and rented out a house to Mengele in Sao Paulo (Levy).

Mengele’s health had been on a steady decline since 1972, and he had a stroke in 1976 (Levy). He had been diagnosed with hypertension and had gained an ear infection that began to affect his balance. While visiting his friends Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert in Bertioga on February 7, 1979, Mengele had another stroke while he was swimming and drowned (Levy). Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes under the name Wolfgang Gerhard, whose identification card he’d been using since 1971 (Blumenthal).