"Mengele fought in the Russian campaign but he was so badly wounded that he was considered unfit for the frontline military service. After recovering from his wounded , Mengele volunteered to work in concentration camps. He was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau" ("Josef Mengele History"). This is how Josef Mengele started in the Nazi party and then from there he just got smart out of no where then got his medical degree then was later drafted into the army to fight in the World War II war along side Italy, and Japan fighting against Great Britain, The …show more content…
officials quickly released him. From the summer of 1945 until spring 1949 the physician, under false papers , worked as farm hand near Rosenheim, Bavaria. At that time, his prosperous family aided his emigration to South America Mengele settled in Argentina"("Josef Mengele United").Instead of staying in his home country he went to Argentina where he was employed, like many former members at the Nazi party at Orbits a Nazi business instead of staying in Germany where he was wanted for 2,375,00 U.S. dollars; then went back into hiding. Because he knew he was a wanted man for all of the vindictive things he did to the Jewish people he lived out his life in hiding until he went for a swim in Brazil, South America then he was a victim from a stroke and drowned and died and was buried as 'Wolfgang Gerhard' in the city of Embu, Kenya.("Josef Mengele