People have asked themselves over the years how a well civilized, under control man such an Mengele, a human being with an interest in anthropology, became such a monster. To understand the present, we have to take a look in the past. Let’s travel back to the time of 1911 in a small town of Gunzburg, Germany. On the 16th day of February, a baby boy was brought into the world. Little did anyone know this innocent little child should grow up to become a notorious murderer known as, the “Angel of Death”.
In his home of three children, Josef was the youngest of two older brothers. His parents, who were usually not there, owned a large family business. Therefore the Mengeles were widely known. Josef felt the need to be free from his destiny of following in his family’s footsteps. He made a plan for himself to make his own mark on the world. He decided to look into the studies of origins, development, and behavior of human beings. In other words, he liked the subject of anthropology. During this revolution in his life, he made a …show more content…
Though this was useful to him for a while, useful enough to save two wounded men from a blazing piece of artillery, it wasn’t enough. So to satisfy his want, he was placed as the senior doctor. There in the woman 's part of Auschwitz-Birkinau, as he chose who lived, only to have experiments done to them, and who died, he hummed opera to himself. Mengele was seen always wearing white gloves and pointing to his newly found experimental people. This group included dwarfs, gypsies, political opponents, people of the homosexual orientation, and others deemed