Josef Mengele Impact On Society

Throughout the Holocaust years there was a man that struck terror in the people imprisoned within the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camps, which consequently, lead him to earn his title as “The Angel Of Death”. He accordingly showed up for selections with an appearance that made one think he was debonair and intelligent, nevertheless, one couldn't possibly ever think of the horrible monstrosities he had committed during the course of World War II. Even more disturbing is that ‘wherever he sprang up, Death spread its shadow”(Wiesel xix). How could a wicked man with such horrifying experiments have an impact on our society today?

It was March 16, 1411, when Josef Mengele was born into the small town Günzburg, Germany as the eldest son, raised by his parents, Karl and Walburga Mengele. The people in Josef’s hometown acknowledged him as an intelligent boy. Moreover, he was also refined and popular. In 1930 he graduated from high school and transcended into the University Of Munich. There he had studied
With just a point of his gloved finger, he'd "select" those for slave labor, and those who appeared medically "fit" (making them suffer in inhumane and deadly conditions) or who they used by the Third Reich in some other way. All other prisoners were immediately murdered by gassing chambers. Many of his “patients”, such as, children and adults especially those who are twins,moreover, people with Heterochromia Iridum (eyes of two different colours), dwarfs, and people with physical abnormalities, were condemned to terrifying fates. Mengele earned a doctorate in medicine, but used his knowledge for such a sickening manner, accordingly, killing his “patients” in gas chambers, test on them with drugs, castrate them, have them frozen, and make them suffer with other