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'''Josef Mengele''' (1911-1979) was a Nazi [[SS]] [[Hauptsturmfuhrer]] and physician at [[Auschwitz Concentration Camp]], involved in direct killings and unethical medical experiments on humans. He escaped prosecution and died, in 1979, while swimming in [[Paraguay]]. | '''Josef Mengele''' (1911-1979) was a Nazi [[SS]] [[Hauptsturmfuhrer]] and physician at [[Auschwitz Concentration Camp]], involved in direct killings and unethical medical experiments on humans. He escaped prosecution and died, in 1979, while swimming in [[Paraguay]]. | ||
Mengele has been described as supporting Nazi racial doctrine, which variously categorized some people as "life unworthy of life", and also that the Jews and other groups needed to be physically exterminated. <ref name=ND>{{citation | |||
| author = Robert Jay Lifton | |||
| title = The Nazi Doctors: medical killing and the psychology of genocide | |||
| url = http://www.holocaust-history.org/lifton/ | |||
| publisher = Basic Books | date = 1986}}</ref> | |||
Mengele was relatively little known immediately after the war, but an increasing body of historical writing drew attention to him.<ref name=GM-Historio>{{citation | Mengele was relatively little known immediately after the war, but an increasing body of historical writing drew attention to him.<ref name=GM-Historio>{{citation | ||
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| title = The Historiography of Josef Mengele | | title = The Historiography of Josef Mengele | ||
| publisher = [[George Mason University]]}}</ref> | | publisher = [[George Mason University]]}}</ref> | ||
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Other Nazi physicians, charged with equivalent acts, were sentenced in the [[Medical Case (NMT)|Medical Case]] at the [[Nuremberg Military Tribunals]]. | Other Nazi physicians, charged with equivalent acts, were sentenced in the [[Medical Case (NMT)|Medical Case]] at the [[Nuremberg Military Tribunals]]. | ||
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Josef Mengele (1911-1979) was a Nazi SS Hauptsturmfuhrer and physician at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, involved in direct killings and unethical medical experiments on humans. He escaped prosecution and died, in 1979, while swimming in Paraguay.
Mengele has been described as supporting Nazi racial doctrine, which variously categorized some people as "life unworthy of life", and also that the Jews and other groups needed to be physically exterminated. [1]
Mengele was relatively little known immediately after the war, but an increasing body of historical writing drew attention to him.[2]
Legal proceedings
Other Nazi physicians, charged with equivalent acts, were sentenced in the Medical Case at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals.
The governments of Germany, Israel, and the United States agreed, in 1992, that he was dead. [3]
SS career
He worked at Auschwitz between May 1943 and January 1945. Subsequently, he moved to Mauthausen Concentration Camp.[4]
Early life
Born in Guenzburg, Germany, Mengele earned a doctorate in anthropology and a medical degree, doing his research in eugenics.[2] He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938, and the SS Medical Corps in 1940.[4]
References
- ↑ Robert Jay Lifton (1986), The Nazi Doctors: medical killing and the psychology of genocide, Basic Books
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rebecca Erbelding (28 April 2008), The Historiography of Josef Mengele, George Mason University
- ↑ Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division; Neal M. Sher, director (October 1992), In the Matter of Josef Mengele: A Report to the Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mengele, Josef, Yad Vashem Historical Center