Josef Mengele was
born, March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg Germany. Mengele was born into
a family of five. He had two younger brothers : Karl and Alois.
His Parents : Karl and Walhurga Mengele were owners of a machine tools
business. Mengele was part of the upper middle class. As a
child Mengele was a good student. He was sent to Munich in 1920's
where he was attracted to the racial theories of Alfred Roseunberg, the
"Philosopher" of National Socialism. As he became an adherent of the National
Socialist ideology. He moved to Frankfurt were he received his medical
degree studding under Otmar Von Verschuer, the director of the Institute
for Racial Hygiane at the University of Frankfurt. The main emphasis
of his research was the importance of heredity within the context of Nazi
" race science". By the time his education was finished Mengele was
a member of both the National Socialist Party and the SS. Mengele
was a fanatic anti-Semite and hated the Roma and the Sinta (Gypsies) even
more than he hated Jews.
At the beginning of World War II, Mengele was activated for service with
the Waffen - SS. Mengele serviced as a medical officer with several units
in the invasion of the Soviet Union, receiving four medals for his actions.
After being wounded, Mengele was declared to an unit for active service
as a physician at Auschwitz on May 1943. Mengele was not chief Physician
at Auschwitz. The chief physician was Edward Wirths. Mengele
had his own lab block. Independent financing and a staff of inmate
physicians whom he supervised. |
