Josef Mengele was a Nazi doctor who worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He performed deadly experiments on prisoners, focusing on twins, with the goal of advancing Nazi racial ideology. After the war, Mengele fled to South America to avoid prosecution for his crimes and lived in hiding until his death in 1979.

1. Josef Mengele By: Lyndsay Benson

2. Who was Josef Mengele? Born March 16, 1911

3. “ Angel of Death” (had the looks of an angel, but definitely didn't act like it)

4. Joined Nazi party in 1937

5. First was a part of the invasion in the Soviet Union, and then was recruited to be a doctor

6. Nazi doctor

7. Worked at death camp in Auschwitz

8. Continued Always had an interest in twins and dwarfs

9. When he came to the death camp, he was freely able to perform any experiment he wanted

10. He was not the only doctor to do this, but is one of the most recognized

11. Fled the country once the camp was liberated

12. Killed between 400,000 – 1 million people

13. What did he do? Tortured individuals

14. Performed deadly and cruel experiments

15. Focused mainly on twins, who he did a great deal of research on

16. Who did he experiment on? Men

17. Women

18. Children

19. Dwarfs

20. And more..

21. Performed on 3,000 sets of twins

22. Experiments Performed Changed eye color by injecting dye

23. Chloroform injections

24. Sewed twins together

25. Sex changes

26. Removed organs and limbs

27. Pressure chambers

28. Etc.

29. How He Decided Who To Experiment On Would wait for people to get off trains

30. Then, would look and decide who should stay and work and who would go with him

31. Main focus was to grab twins, but would take who he could get

32. Those who were saved were sent to his right

33. Those sent to his left, were sent to the gas chambers

34. Twins Mengele studied twin genetics

35. Before being experimented on, twins were calmed down by given clean clones, candy, etc.

36. He drove them to his lab where he performed extremely cruel experiments

37. To them, he gave surgeries without anesthetics, blood transfusions, injected lethal germs into twins.

38. In one case, he tried to take one twins eye and sew it to the back of the other twins head.

39. Special Treatment Kept children in separate barracks than everyone else

40. Gave them candy / spoiled them

41. Many called him “uncle” since he treated them so kindly. This is how he got his nickname “Angel of Death.”

42. Would treat them so kind...but would only later experiment on them.

43. Why Did He Do Experiments? He felt as if it was the right thing to do as a member of the Nazi party.

44. Was trying to genetically create the perfect Aryan race.

45. He used mothers that gave birth to twins to see if he could induce multiple births in order to restore the Nazi army which was decreasing.

46. He thought it was helping both his county and science.

47. Life After Auschwitz Became a German infantry soldier. Was captured but later released

48. Moved to Argentina under a false name

49. Moved from country to country in South America to avoid being captured

50. Married his deceased brother's wife

51. Supposedly died on February 7, 1979 after suffering from a stroke while in the Brazilian ocean

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