Josef Mengele

Born

March 16, 1911

Died

February 8, 1979 (aged 67)

Known as

anthropologist, military physician, physician writer, torturer, physician

Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research and experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers.

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