DR. JOSEF MENGELE

BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in physical anthropology
• Worked the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene
• Apprentince to Otmar von Verschuer
• Joined Nazi Party in 1937
• Drafted into SS in 1940 ("Josef")

BACKGROUND (CONT.)

• Wounded during battle
• Began to work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
• Promoted to captain
• Transfered to Auschwitz ("Josef")

EVENT: EXPERIMENTS

• Fascinated with twins and dwarfs (Jewish and Roma children)
• Operations preformed without anesthesia
• Physical and psycological experiments
• Removal of organs & limbs, blood transfusions & sex change operations
• Once tried to sew two Gypsy twins together ("Josef Mengele, Angel")

EVENT: GOALS OF THE EXPERIMENTS

• Find better ways to sterilize inferiors
• Change dark eyes into blue
• Improved medical treatments for German army
• Try to improve fertilify of German women
• (Eglash and Bachrach)

EVENT: MENGELE'S ROLL AT AUSCHWITZ

• Not head physician at Auschwitz
• Head physician was Dr. Eduard Wirths
• Most people associate him with the selection of prisoners
• Did not preform this task more than any of his other colleagues ("Josef")
• "Angel of Death"

IMPACT: MODERN MEDICINE

IMPACT: THE ETHNIC DILEMA

• Debate over ethinc validity of Nazi experiments
• Ethically sound=scientifically valid
• Dr. Kratz from Yale believes the experiments should be released for public view
• Could suggest that experiments could be of use & doctors are highly trained
• This might change people's view of the medical officials (Cohen)

Works Cited
Bachrach, Susan D. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. Print.
Cohen, Baruch C. "Nazi Medical Experimentation: The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments." The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments. Jewish Virtual Library, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2015.
Eglash, Ruth. "Remembering Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele's Smile." EBSCO. The Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2015. Web. 23 Feb. 2015.

Works Cited
"Josef Mengele, Angel of Death." The Holocaust: Crimes, Heroes and Villains. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2015.
"Josef Mengele." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 20 June 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.
"Menegle, Josef." EBSCO. Britanica Biographies, 1 Mar. 2012. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.