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Josef Mengele did experiments on how to best kill people and he used the Jews and other prisoners at Auschwitz. He also did things like measure skulls of the Jews, timed how long it took to freeze to death. For gruesome details read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

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Which notorious SS Officer did the prisoners meet at Auschwitz Concentration Camp?

They met the notorious SS Officer Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz.


How many twins survived after Josef Mengele?

Out of about 3,000, only around 200 survived.


Did Josef Mengele enjoy torturing people?

One would assume so. He did many experimental surgeries without any medicine for the "patient", and he did many selections when new prisoners arrived.


How many German doctor were there in Auschwitz?

I believe there were 24 doctors at Auschwitz ... according to the Josef Mengele Biography on A&E


What is dr mengele remembered for?

Josef Mengele was known as the Angel of death and would torture Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. "Patients" were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death, and exposed to various other traumas. Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, the eldest of three sons of Karl and Walburga Mengele. Josef was refined, intelligent and popular in his town. He studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1935 his dissertation dealt with racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw. In 1937 he joined the Nazi party, then in 1938 he went to the SS. In 1942 he was wounded at the Russian front and was pronounced unfit for duty. After that he volunteered to go to the concentration camp, he was sent to the death camp, Auschwitz. Dr. Josef Mengele, nicknamed "the Angel of Death", became the surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution". Mengele was always immaculately prepared for the long-drawn-out rituals of death, the hellish selections which the young SS doctor so regularly attended during his twenty-one months at Auschwitz.

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Experiments did dr mengele conduct his concerntration camp?

Josef Mengele was known as the angel of death. So called camp doctors, especially the notorious Josef Mengele, would torture Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. "Patients" were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death, and exposed to various other traumas. Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, the eldest of three sons of Karl and Walburga Mengele. Josef was refined, intelligent and popular in his town. He studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. His name share of experiment was with twin children.


Who are the people Josef Mengele experimented on?

twins, dwarfs, and small children most people died during research others were killed afterwords and their organs were kept for study


Which notorious SS Officer did the prisoners meet at Auschwitz Concentration Camp?

They met the notorious SS Officer Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz.


How many twins survived after Josef Mengele?

Out of about 3,000, only around 200 survived.


Did Josef Mengele enjoy torturing people?

One would assume so. He did many experimental surgeries without any medicine for the "patient", and he did many selections when new prisoners arrived.


How many German doctor were there in Auschwitz?

I believe there were 24 doctors at Auschwitz ... according to the Josef Mengele Biography on A&E


What is dr mengele remembered for?

Josef Mengele was known as the Angel of death and would torture Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. "Patients" were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death, and exposed to various other traumas. Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, the eldest of three sons of Karl and Walburga Mengele. Josef was refined, intelligent and popular in his town. He studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1935 his dissertation dealt with racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw. In 1937 he joined the Nazi party, then in 1938 he went to the SS. In 1942 he was wounded at the Russian front and was pronounced unfit for duty. After that he volunteered to go to the concentration camp, he was sent to the death camp, Auschwitz. Dr. Josef Mengele, nicknamed "the Angel of Death", became the surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution". Mengele was always immaculately prepared for the long-drawn-out rituals of death, the hellish selections which the young SS doctor so regularly attended during his twenty-one months at Auschwitz.


Who did Josef Mengele work for?

Josef Mengele worked for the Nazi regime during World War II, primarily at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was a physician known for conducting inhumane experiments on inmates, particularly twins, under the guise of scientific research. Mengele's actions were driven by his interest in genetics and racial ideology, and he became infamous for his cruelty and disregard for human life. After the war, he evaded capture and lived in South America for many years.


What was the name of the doctor who worked inside of Auschwitz?

well Dr. Josef Mengele was one of the notorious doctors that "worked" in concentration camps. Although the Nazis hired many.


Who was dubbed 'The Angel of Death' by newspapers?

Many people, as a matter of fact. The expression Angel of Death is often used to describe nurses or doctors who give a lethal injection to terminally ill patients. It's also the nickname that Josef Mengele, Donald Harvey and Alfredo Astiz were given.


How many set of twins were killed during the Holocaust?

I don't know exactly how many were killed in the Holocaust, but about 1,500 sets of twins (3,000 individuals) were experimented on in the hands of Josef Mengele. I estimated that somewhere between 50 and 200 sets survived.


What nazi doctor is infamous for preforming human experiments in the concentration camps?

His Majesty George the Third, The King of England The most infamous German doctor known for doing evil experiments on concentration-camp victims was Josef Mengele. Another who has been in the news lately is Aribert Heim. Both Mengele and Heim have been dead for some years.