Grace Zolkowski

Miss. Schmidt
Honors English 9
February 27, 2018
An Annotated Bibliography: Doctor Josef Mengele

“Dr Josef Mengele: The Angel of Death - a Summary.” History in an Hour, 12 Feb. 2018,
www.historyinanhour.com/2014/02/07/josef-mengele-summary/.

Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 and was the oldest of three brothers. He

studied in Frankfurt, and then Munich. Mengele first specialized in philosophy, and then

medicine. Josef Mengele agreed with Hitler and Hitler’s racial beliefs and joined the Nazi

party in 1937. He served at the Eastern Front in the medical corps during 1940, but

Mengele returned to Germany after attaining an injury in 1943. He was transferred to

Auschwitz, where he conducted hundreds of human experiments. Mengele loved the task

of selections and was on the lookout for twins and Jews with unusual physical conditions.

Mengele had a particular interest in twins and experimented on around 1,500 sets.

Mengele’s fascination for twins was a possible link for the Nazi’s desire to increase the

Aryan birthrate. He was particularly fond of the Ovitzes, which was a Jewish family. He

experimented on all seven of the siblings. The siblings were expected to die yet each and

everyone of them survived. Mengele was often known for sending hundreds of people to

the gas chambers. Mengele escaped to South America in 1949, and evaded capture for the

rest of his life. He died on February 7, 1979, while suffering a stroke while swimming.

He was buried under a false name, and it wasn’t until 1992, that he was found. In
 conclusion, Mengele was truly a horrific human being who was able to take thousands of

human lives.

“Dr. Josef Mengele: The Cruelest Nazi Doctor of the Holocaust.” Medical Bag, 15 June 2016,

www.medicalbag.com/despicable-doctors/dr-josef-mengele-the-cruelest-nazi-doctor-of-

the- holocaust/article/472824/.

Josef Mengele was known as one of the cruelest doctors to ever live. During the

Holocaust he was stationed at Auschwitz as a doctor. He conducted hundreds of human

experiments against the prisoner’s will. Before the Holocaust, Josef Mengele lived a very

wealthy childhood. He earned a PhD in physical anthropology and became interested in

heredity biology. Mengele joined the Nazi party in 1938. When studying heredity

biology, he became very intrigued by twins. During WWII Josef Mengele was stationed

at Auschwitz as a doctor. He applied to transfer to the concentration camps to take

advantage of the opportunity to conduct genetic research on human subjects. He loved the

selection process at the beginning of camp, where he would choose what prisoners went

to the gas chambers or forced labor. Mengele’s favorite part was picking out prisoners for

his human experiments, and he would especially look out for twins. Mengele’s work

revolved around genetic engineering, so he could try and create a German super- race. He

experimented on twins every day and became fascinated in eyes. Mengele even attempted

to create conjoined twins. He experimented on about 1500 twins yet only about 200

survived. In conclusion, Doctor Mengele conducted many horrific human experiments,

and the experiments had a very negative affect.

“Josef Mengele.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust

Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060.

One of the most well-known doctors during the Holocaust was Doctor Josef Mengele. Doctor

Josef Mengele was an SS physician who performed the most gruesome human

experiments on selected prisoners, in Auschwitz. Doctor Mengele had a wealthy

childhood and was on a path to become a very successful doctor. He loved the selection

part of the camp, where he decided which prisoners were to live, which ones were to go

to the gas chambers, and which ones were going to become his experiments. Doctor

Mengele had a wide interest in twins, and often performed experiments on any set of

twins he could find. He experimented so he could trace the genetic origins of various

diseases. He was also very interested in the condition called heterochromia.

Heterochromia is were a victim’s two irises differ in coloration. Doctor Mengele

collected the eyes of all of the victims that he had murdered. He also found interest in

studying about artificial eye color. He conducted a lot of experiments yet not many were

successful. As the war dies down, Dr. Mengele hid from the armed forces. He had

committed some very serious crimes and was wanted around the world. Mengele avoided

society and eventually he died and no one really knew because he had basically fallen off

the map. Doctor Mengele’s experiments were unreasonable and affected many people

during the Holocaust. In conclusion, Doctor Mengele caused many problems for many of

people who were part of his human experiments.

Stockton, Richard. “The Sickening Experiments Of Dr. Josef Mengele, The Nazi ‘Angel Of

Death.’” All That's Interesting, 14 Dec. 2017, allthatsinteresting.com/josef-mengele-nazi-

experiments/4.

Doctor Josef Mengele was one of the most infamous doctors during the Holocaust and

was known as the “Angel of Death”. As a young child Mengele’s father ran a successful

business in Germany. Mengele joined the Nazi party and fought for his country but ended

up getting injured and was shipped back to Germany. Later in May 1943, Mengele

stepped foot inside Auschwitz, one of the most famous concentration camps. At first

Mengele was assigned as a medical officer. He often volunteered for extra duty and it

seemed like he was everywhere at once. He also adored the selection process, which was

often a burden to the other doctors. He managed an infirmary and assisted other German

doctors with their work. Along with that he conducted researched and held human

experiments, killing hundreds of prisoners. The experiments backed up his knowledge of

studying the influence of heredity on various physical traits. Identical twins played a huge

part in his experiments since they have identical genes. In 1944 Mengele was awarded a

management position, which caused him to end the lives of thousands of other prisoners.

In 1945, the war was slowly ending, and Mengele fled to avoid capture by the Red Army.

Mengele was captured by the Allies in June 1945, yet they let him go because no official

criminal list had been distributed. He avoided capture for decades and eventually died in

1979 due to a swimming accident. In conclusion, Mengele’s experiments were harsh and

irrational, he lived an interesting life, yet ruined hundreds of lives.

Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

2017.

“Night” by Elie Wiesel was based on the true events of a young Jew experiencing the

insane events during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel begins his journey in transportation and

ends in one eof the most horrific concentration camps. Some of the scariest events during

history are able to be imagined. The concentration camps are visually described and

explain what misery and grief presided there. Elie Wiesel’s arrival at the camps, led him

to encountering one of the most infamous doctors in history. Dr. Mengele greeted the

prisoners with the process of selection. Yet, Wiesel never gave up, and as a result he livd

long after the war. Wiesel was able to keep him and his father alive. Sadly his efforts

didn’t hold to the very end… and his father passed away. At some points, Wiesel had no

living passion to fight these experiences. He sat and watched he father get beaten, but yet

he did almost nothing. Elie Wiesel had also been forced to participate in the death

marches. Elie Wiesel put his father before himself and did anything he could to push

through one of the hardest events in the history of the world. After being put through the

darkest of times, Elie Wiesel did it. He finally made it to the end, but he made it without

his family. In conclusion Elie Wiesel displayed characteristics of a brave hero, who was

able to push through the darkest of times.