It all started on March 16,1911 in Gunzburg Germany, when Karl( 1881-1959),and his wife Walburg( ca.-1946 ) Mengele had their first son Josef Mengele.  Josef also had two younger brothers Karl Jr.( 1912-1949 ) and Alois ( 1914-1974 ).  As Josef was growing up he was given the nickname Beppo.  When Josef was twenty-six he was appointed for research as an assistant at the Third Reich Institution for Heredity, Biology , and Ralcial Purity at the University of Frankfort.  When he was at Frankfort he studied with Professor Otmar Freihere von Vershuer.  Why he was at Frankfort he took his exams and passed with flying colors.  When the University of Munich saw his scores they transferred him to Munich.  In May ( 1938 ) Josef applied for the SS.  He also got married to Irene Sanitats. After he got married he was accepted to the SS., and they sent him to battle.  Why he was in battle he won two Iron Crosses, one was a second class medal the other was a first class medal.  He also won a Black Badge for getting wounded in battle.  After being wounded in battle he couldn't return, so he was recommended to be a research assistant at Auschwitz. As Josef arrived the disease typhus had jut broken out.  
After he got to Auschwitz he got promoted to caption at the unloading docks.  Josef used his good looks and his finely tailored jacket and pants to get the women to listen to him so he could send them to the gas chamber the next second. He also wore all his medals, and carried a ridding crop to tap the Jews and tell them were to go.  He always whistled his favorite Opera tune by Wagner.  One of the prisoners quoted that:" Josef grabbed her neck, and proceeded to beat her head to a bloody pulp.  He hit her, slapped her, and boxed her. He always hit her in her head--screaming at the top of his voice "You want to escape, don't you. You can't escape now.  You are going to croak you dirty Jew." As I watched, I saw her two beautiful, intelligent eyes disappear under a layer of blood.  And in a few seconds, her straight, pointed nose was a flat, broken mass.  Half an hour later, Dr. Mengele returned to the hospital.  He took out a piece of perfumed soap and, whistling gaily with a smile of deep satisfaction began to wash his hands."    
After this he released his duties as selector and went to full time doctor.  Josef licked twins the best, but he also licked Dwarfs, Giants, Gypsies, and other deformed people to do his experiments on.  he had his own bareax for the people he was going to do his experiments on, it was called the Zoo.  Josef Mengele had his own office to do his experiments in.  His experiments were supposes to be trying to find out how he can change genetics' in Germans to make a German Supper-Race.  While Josef was a doctor he was known as the "Angel of Death" because of his experiments.  He put pigments in their eyes to try to change them collars.  He also cut the chin and pulled out the tong and then the époques with the lungs then cut the head to pull out the brain.  This was all dune with the pashent still awake.  The only whay to understand a how a Nazi doctor came to do their work at Auschwitz is the psychological punaple I call "doubling " the division of the self into two functions wholes, so that a part-self acts as an entire self.  An Auschwitz doctor could, through doubling, not only kill but also organizing silently, on behalf of that evil project."  We believe on February 7, 1979 Mengele had a stroke while swimming in the ocean.  And his grave stone it says "Wolfgang Ganghard." 

 

       

 

Brent Feldhausen

Rossville Jr. High-7th Grade

2002 Holocaust Projects

 

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