Josef Mengele Biography

Josef Mengele biography

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NAME: Josef Mengele
OCCUPATION: War Criminal
BIRTH DATE: March 16, 1911
DEATH DATE: February 07, 1979
EDUCATION: University of Frankfurt am Main

PLACE OF BIRTH: Günzburg, Germany
PLACE OF DEATH: Enseada da Bertioga, Brazil

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Josef Mengele was a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp who selected prisoners for execution in gas chambers and led medical experiments on inmates.

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An ardent Nazi, In 1943 Josef Mengele was appointed by Heinrich Himmler to be chief doctor at Birkenau, the supplementary extermination camp at Auschwitz, where he and his staff selected incoming Jews for labor or extermination and where he supervised medical experiments on inmates to discover means of increasing fertility (to increase the German “race”).