Unfinished: Dr Josef Mengele

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Dr. Josef Rudolf Mengele By Suzanna E. Hall Joseph Mengele, the "Angel of Death" as he's commonly known. He is most famous for his random selection on the platform, deciding whether you'd go to the gas chambers or the camp, specifically Auschwitz. Dr. Mengele is also well known for his experiments on twins. Mengele was born in 1911 on March 16th and the son of Karl and Walburga, well-to-do Bavarian industrialists in Güzenburg. The plant is still owned by the Mengele's as an implement factory in Germany. The people who had known him at a very young age would tell you that "He was a serious student with clear ambition and lots of intelligence", and also nick-named "Beppo" by childhood friends. He was the eldest of three, his younger brothers being Karl and Alois. For a time, Mengele studied under Otmar Von Verschuer at the Frankfurt University Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. In his studies at the university he focused his efforts on physical anthropology and genetics. In 1923 he joined the SA, and applied for party membership in 1937. In 1931 at 20 years old, Mengele joined Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet). Upon his acceptence into the Nazi party, he immeditly applied for the SS (Schutzstaffel). But Before his arrival He had published three articles, one of was was his thesis in the Anthropological Institute at the University of Munich, which was dubbed "Racial-Morphological Examination of the Anterior Portion of the Lower Law in Four Racial Groups". Another was a medical disseration that was published in 1938, entitled "Geneological Studies in the Cases of the Cleft Lip-Jaw-Palate". His therd article was called "Hereditary Transmission of Fistulae Auris", which had been published in combination with his research done on the Lenz-Vershuer principle of irrgularand/or dominant hereditary
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