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Josef Mengele
Josef Rudolf Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research and experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers.
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science · Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979) · anthropologist · military physician · physician writer · torturer · physician · also Josef Mengele, Peter Hochbichler, Helmut Gregor, Uncle Mengele, Fausto Rindón, S. Josi Alvers Aspiazu
Born 16 March 1911 · Died 8 February 1979 · Q57109
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2026· 3 entries
“Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live...”
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After decades of unsuccessful requests for declassification, the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service announced that it would grant historians conditional access to long-sealed federal files relating to Mengele
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2025· 5 entries
Yahoo: Russian Filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov’s ‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ Sells to Major Territories as Kinology Unveils Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
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Yahoo: ‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ Review: A Post-War Study of the Nazis’ ‘Angel of Death’ Lacks Dimension
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The New York Times: Josef Mengele
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Arutz Sheva: This is how Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele evaded prosecution for years
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Arguing that the prolonged classification fuelled speculation regarding Switzerland’s postwar handling of fugitive Nazi war criminals
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2022· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ Review: Monster in Exile
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2016· 1 entry
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Josef Mengele’s remains to be studied at Brazilian university
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2011· 1 entry
(centenary of Mengele's birth), a further 31 volumes of Mengele's diaries were sold—again amidst protests—by the same auction house to an undisclosed collector of World War II memorabilia for US$245,000
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2007· 1 entry
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received as a donation the Höcker Album, an album of photographs of Auschwitz staff taken by Karl-Friedrich Höcker
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1992· 2 entries
Indicate that while living in Buenos Aires, Mengele may have practiced medicine without a license, including performing abortions
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DNA testing confirmed Mengele's identity beyond doubt, but family members refused repeated requests by Brazilian officials to repatriate the remains to Germany
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1985· 1 entry
“s and that news of his father”
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1982· 1 entry
Wiesenthal offered a reward of US$100,000 (equivalent to $300,000 in 2025) for the fugitive's capture, and as late as 1985 claimed Mengele was still alive
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1979· 6 entries
Died 1979-02-08.
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“The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world.”
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“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
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After suffering a stroke while swimming off the coast of Bertioga, and was buried under the false name of Wolfgang Gerhard
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“Even the Russians are fighting us. They've brought in Jewish pilots, nurses, and doctors. Everybody's ganging up on us. We didn't think it would happen this way.”
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“There can't be two smart peoples in the world. We're going to win the war, so only the Aryan race will stand.”
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1976· 1 entry
Experienced high blood pressure, and developed an ear infection which affected his balance
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1971· 1 entry
To seek medical treatment for his ailing wife and son, he gave his identity card to Mengele
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1969· 1 entry
Mengele and the Stammers jointly purchased a farmhouse in Caieiras, with Mengele as half-owner
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1966· 1 entry
Found nothing to indicate she was currently in contact with Mengele
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1964· 1 entry
Meir Amit, the new head of the Mossad, authorized a clandestine search of Martha Mengele's apartment in Bavaria
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1962· 1 entry
With Mengele owning a half interest
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1961· 1 entry
Relocated Mengele with Hungarian expatriates Géza and Gitta Stammer on their farm in Nova Europa
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1960· 1 entry
In Cairo in 1961, in Spain in 1971, and in Paraguay in 1978, eighteen years after he had left the country
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1959· 1 entry
And later Brazil in 1960, all while being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal, who wanted to bring him to trial
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1958· 2 entries
While on holiday in Uruguay, and they bought a house in Buenos Aires
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On suspicion of practicing medicine without a license when a teenage girl died after an abortion, but he was released without charge
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1956· 2 entries
Mengele was issued an Argentine foreign residence permit under his real name
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Visited him at the bungalow in 1977; he found an "unrepentant Nazi" who claimed he had never personally harmed anyone and only carried out his duties as an officer
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1953· 1 entry
Used family funds to buy a part interest in a carpentry concern, and then rented a house in the suburb of Olivos in 1954
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1951· 1 entry
Began making frequent trips to Paraguay as a regional sales representative for the firm
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1944· 1 entry
To First Physician of the Birkenau subcamp
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1943· 1 entry
Mengele initiated a study to determine the cause of the disease and develop a treatment
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1942· 2 entries
Awarded Iron Cross (1939), 1st class (1942).
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Auschwitz II-Birkenau, originally intended to house slave laborers, began to be used instead as a combined labour camp and extermination camp
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Iron Cross (1939), 2nd class (1941).
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1938· 3 entries
Hired him as a permanent assistant at his institute
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Earned him a doctorate in medicine from Goethe University Frankfurt
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With the Gebirgsjäger (mountain light infantry) and was called up for service in the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) in June 1940, some months after the outbreak of World War II
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1936· 1 entry
Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Doctor of Philosophy (1936).
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1935· 2 entries
Studying for four years under Theodor Mollison, a physical anthropologist and proponent of the pseudoscience of scientific racism
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And first published in 1937, earned him a PhD in anthropology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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1933· 1 entry
And the SS in 1935, primarily as a way to advance his career in local politics
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1931· 1 entry
Joined Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, a paramilitary organization that was absorbed into the Nazi Sturmabteilung ('Storm Detachment'; SA) in 1934
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1924· 1 entry
Joined the Greater German Youth League, a right-wing youth group, and remained a member until 1930, serving as leader of the local chapter from 1927
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1915· 1 entry
The company expanded, and switched to producing military equipment such as specialized wagons for military transport and parts for deploying naval mines
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-03-16.
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