No, the Angel of Death.
Joseph Mengele was often called the "Angel of Death" by inmates at Auschwitz due to his cruel and inhumane medical experiments on prisoners, particularly on twins and children.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp inmates referred to him as 'the White Angel' because he inspected new arrivals while wearing a white coat.
Dr. Mengele was known as the Angel of Death, and also Uncle Mengele. The Angel of Death comes from his outstretched arms selecting prisoners to be gassed, and the lights making him look white making him look like an Angel; the Death part because he did many selections. He encouraged experimentees to call him Uncle Mengele, and was even known to bring candy to children.
Josef Mengele "The Angel of Death" is famous (more like infamous) for being a doctor in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He and Adolf Eichmann were the two most wanted Nazi war criminals.
This nickname was given to Josef Mengele, who peformed experiments on children at Auschwitz and was also used more generally of such doctors.
Josef Mengele is famous because of the cruel experiments he did on twins, dwarfs and other people in the Auschwitz death camp. Also because after the war he fled to South America and no one was able to find him until 34 years later.
Elie Wiesel's reference to the "Angel of Death" is often associated with Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi SS officer who conducted inhumane and deadly experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Mengele's cruel actions earned him the notorious nickname "Angel of Death."
The Angel of Death. He was called this because he brought death and fear with him wherever he went.
The name of the Nazi doctor in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is Dr. Josef Mengele, also known as the "Angel of Death." He was responsible for conducting inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Mengele performed medical experiments on the inmates. This included atrocities such as sterilization and unnecessary surgery (even sewing twins together to make them "conjoined"). Perhaps most famous is his experiments on twins. He believed that he had a rare opportunity to make sure a set of twins would die at the same time, and he would perform autopsies. He was known as the Angel of Death.
The "Angel of Death" in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is a reference to Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi officer who conducted gruesome experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. He earned this nickname due to his role in selecting which prisoners would be sent to the gas chambers and which would be subjected to medical experimentation.
Josef Mengele,The angel of death