Josef Mengele: The Angel Of Death

Hundreds, even thousands, of innocent souls were butchered because of a man by the name of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death". How did Josef Mengele evolve to become the "Angel of Death"? At the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, Germany, he became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, a head scientist widely known for his research of twins (January 1937). Later that year, Mengele joined the Nazi party. The same year in which he attained his medical degree (1938), he joined the SS (Schutzstaffel), which is higher rank in the Nazi Regime. In April of 1943, he received a promotion to SS captain; this advancement shortly preceded Mengele’s transfer to Auschwitz, on May 30, 1943. Mengele firmly endorsed
Throughout Auschwitz, many experiments took place. In the majority of these experiments, they ended with an autopsy, or dissection. These experiments required dissection because they dealt with the organs of the “test subject”. The scientists wanted to know the end result of their experiments. During high-altitude experiments, the victim’s brain would be dissected while they were still alive. This was to show the result of tiny air bubbles forming in the blood vessels of certain portions of the brain. The poison experiments were done to many people; they believed what they were doing was right. The poison experiments were done to learn the success of different poisons. They did this in various different ways: they poisoned their food, gave them an injection, or sometimes they even shot them with a poison bullet. Even if being poisoned didn’t result in the victim’s death, they were executed so an autopsy could be performed. In some cases, victims would be killed right after the poison was administered into them in order to allow an autopsy. As Eva Kor, Holocaust survivor, states, “We didn’t know the contents (poison) then and we don’t know them today. After one of those injections, I became very ill with a high fever,” (Walker,