Josef Mengele was born march 16, 1911 to be the oldest of three sons and to be son of  Karl and Walburga.   Josef was very intelligent and well known in the town.  1930 he graduated from the gym.  When he turned only 26 he started at the Nazi youth camp.  Only one year later he became a SS troop.  1942 the SS troop (Josef Mengele) was injured and said to be unfit for the SS troop team.  After that he volunteered to be a worker at the Nazi death camp, and that's how he got the name Angel of Death.                                      
Dr. Josef Mengele
At Auschwitz when experiments were done on twins, if they weren't killed during the experiments.... they were most certainly killed afterwards.  
By the fall of 1948 Mengele had made up his mind that it was a bad idea to stay and do those experiments on twins, dwarfs, giants, and  many more.  Every day all he did was kill people or decide whether they lived or worked hard labor sometimes even if he would perform experiments on them.  There was one mother who bit and scratched the SS men so her daughter would not leave her.  Mengele then just drew his gun and shot both the mother and daughter on the spot.  later after the war some twins were found and recognized Mengele as the sweet man that gave them sugar cubes and chocolate.  The death factories were also known to have many diseases.  The place he always wanted to live at Argentina he finally received a chance to move there.  3 years earlier the Russians had found 650 victims of Josef Mengele's experiments.  Also during those 3 years Mengele had a slight run in with U.S. troops he thought it would be only time before they would unmask there true identity.  Later that year he was released.  he was then reduced from a people picker to a potato picker. although this was pretty bad it kept his identity safe.  1946 Mengele had been convinced that the U.S. troops had given up on finding him. He finally realized that the U.S. troops had given up search on him otherwise they would of already found him.      
During the years he lived in Argentina he had his identity inspected by different authorities every where he had visited.  His identity had been earlier been changed by a friend.  His identity had passed all inspections by all local police.  the big reason that helped him decide to move to Argentina was that many people there believed in Nazism.  In 1948 his son got an unhappy divorce.  
Mengele had decided he had to many close calls with the authorities. he later decided to move to Paraguay he thought it would be an easier life. then a warrant was issued to extract Mengele and send him strait to Germanys jail.  1 year later the police in Argentina not knowing his absence of the state started the search.  Later that year Israelis captured Mengele. he then finally escaped and thought he was free, but.... the Israelis would not give up so easily. they sent out agents to track him down.  Their method was to contact some one that knew him.     
1964 universities withdrew all educational degrees.   1965 the German search was progressing.  In the end Mengele was found dead  his cause of death massive stoke why'll swimming in the ocean in Brazil.
   
Clinton Harden

7th Holocaust Project

Rossville Jr.High,april 2005

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