Essay On Josef Mengele

Kevin Keller

Mrs. Traynor

English 10

February 26, 2014

Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele, Born March 16, 1911, had seemed to be any normal human being at first. Then suddenly, it all came to a studdering halt of abnormality when his mind was twisted by the works of several German Physicians during his younger years. This prolific monster had committed crimes that could only be described in by any human being that would be capable of any thought, pure evil. Once a naturally brilliant, young and aspiring man, ready to tackle his career in medicine, turned into a staggering madman, searching for the next person to commit his unfathomably gruesome “experiments” on, using innocent children and adults of Birkenau in Auschwitz.

As said in the Introduction, Mengele had started as a small infant, a complete blank slate of humanity, ready to search for their purpose in life as any other human would. Being the eldest of three children under the guardianship of Karl and Walburga Mengele, he had worked for his father. This job was nothing out of the ordinary, in fact it was quite bland. He worked long hours under his father to produce farm machinery. In his early schooling years, he had done very well in school. In fact, later in High school he had achieved valedictorian upon his final year of high school in 1930. His interests at this time were music, art and skiing. Seems like any typical wild teenager at the time, whether it be rebellious or not by the days’ standard. Mengele had always contained a special interest in medicine, so he applied and got accepted to the University of Munich, which was in Munich, the main headquarters of the Nazi party. Even at that time, it was a known anti semitic political organization led by Adolf Hitler himself. ...

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...mily called the Stammers, had purchased a house set on an acreage in Caieiras in 1969. During this time, Mengele had personally done illegal surgeries and birthing with younger teenage girls. The Stammers had came to see what Mengele actually is and did not want anything to do with. Leading Mengele to rent out a home in Bertioga Brazil where he spends his final days alone. Mengele’s Health had been steadily Deteriorating since 1972. He had high blood pressure, and a insoluble ear infection that affected his balance. Mengele had a stroke in 1976. He then suffered from another stroke while swimming and drowned 1979, at Coastal Resort of Bertoga on February 7 1979. While Mengele sighting were reported all over the world, he was admitted in a final report of his burial in Embu das Artes under the name “Wolfgang Gerhard”, whose identity card he had been using since 1971.