Josef Mengele Biography

Josef Mengele biography

Quick Facts

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

Best Known For

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

Quiz

Think you know about Biography?

Answer questions and see how you rank against other players.

Play Now

Print Cite This

Josef Mengele

APA Style

Josef Mengele. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 04:36, May 24, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739.

Harvard Style

Josef Mengele. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739 [Accessed 24 May 2013].

MLA Style

"Josef Mengele." 2013. The Biography Channel website. May 24 2013, 04:36 http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739.

MHRA Style

"Josef Mengele," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739 [accessed May 24, 2013].

Chicago Style

"Josef Mengele," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739 (accessed May 24, 2013).

CBE/CSE Style

Josef Mengele [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 24] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739.

Bluebook Style

Josef Mengele, http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739 (last visited May 24, 2013).

AMA Style

Josef Mengele. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/josef-mengele-9405739. Accessed May 24, 2013.

Profile

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”).