1. The Angel of Death Dr. Josef Mengele

4. Education In grade school, Josef was never at the top of his class, but he did well and was ambitious. Josef’s father wanted him to inherit the factory, but Josef wanted to go to school to become a doctor. In 1930 Josef graduated form Gunzburg High School and passes the preliminary test that allowed him to enter college. Josef was then accepted into the University of Munich where he majored in philosophy and medicine. While studying at Munich, Mengele heard his first Hitler speech and was then affiliated with the Nazi party. Josef saw Hitler’s movement as a chance for him to advance his career and gain the fame and respect he believed he deserved and had earned. After joining the “Steel Helmets”, Mengele then began to study anthropology and paleontology as well as medicine. Josef attended lectures of Dr. Ernst Rudin who believed in the theory of “unworthy life” which, simply put, was that some lives were not worth living and undeserved. It was at these lectures that Mengele decided he wanted to help with the purification of the German race.