Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Mengele


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  Josef Mengele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mengele was born in Günzburg, Bavaria, eldest of three sons of Karl Mengele (1881–1959) and his wife Walburga (d.
Mengele was usually part of the medical delegation which met incoming prisoners, determining which would be retained for work and experimentation, and which would be sent immediately to the gas chambers.
Mengele is believed to have an illegitimate daughter born to an Australian woman of German lineage after a liaison between the two when the woman, aged 23, and her mother and brother, visited the German Colony in Paraguay in mid-1960.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Josef-Mengele.htm   (981 words)

  
 The Medical Experiments
In a case in which a mother did not want to be separated from her thirteen- or fourteen-year-old daughter, and bit and scratched the face of the SS man who tried to force her to her assigned line, Mengele drew his gun and shot both the woman and the child.
Mengele's passion for cleanliness and perfection carried over into a selections aesthetic; he would send people with skin blemishes to the gas chamber or those with small abcesses or even old appendectomy scars.
Mengele fed his legend by dramatizing murderous policies, such as his drawing a line on the wall of the children's block between 150 and 156 centimeters (about 5 feet or 5 feet 2 inches) from the floor, and sending those whose heads could not reach the line to the gas chamber.
www.geocities.com /onemansmind/hr/methods/Med.html   (1415 words)

  
 Josef Mengele, Angel of Death
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, the eldest of three sons of Karl and Walburga Mengele.
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.
Josef Mengele was the chief provider for the gas chambers and their crematoria."He had a look that said 'I am the power,'" said one survivor.
home8.inet.tele.dk /aaaa/Mengele.htm   (2168 words)

  
 Doctor Josef Mengele:
Mengele was especially interested in twins because he believed he could unlock the secrets to perfect multiple births while also being able to conduct experiments with a perfect control.
Mengele believed with all his heart that if he could only perform enough experiments, he could be known as the greatest scientist who ever lived.
However, during questioning Mengele wasn’t identified as an SS member because he didn’t have the official tattoo that all members were branded with for he didn’t want to harm his perfect Aryan skin.
www.angelfire.com /wi2/Lena/mengele.html   (1783 words)

  
 Dr. Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death, was a notorious Nazi doctor who performed sadistic experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz and participated in the selections of people to be sent to the gas chambers.
Mengele was the eldest of three sons of Karl Mengele (1881- 1959) and his wife Walburga (d.1946), well- to-do Bavarian industrialists.
Most of Mengele's experiments were of quite dubious scientific value, even ignoring the ethics involved, including attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, various amputations and other brutal surgeries, and in at least one case attempting to create an artificial "siamese twin" by sewing two twins together.
www.adolfhitler.ws /lib/nsdap/Mengele.html   (621 words)

  
 How Josef Mengele Cheated Justice, Chicago Tribune Magazine, May 18, 1986
Mengele bought a one-half interest in the Stammers' farm with the money he made from his business ventures, and over the 13 years they spent together, the Stammers prospered enough to sell the farm and buy a large new house in the state of Sao Paulo, but their relationship with the dictatorial Mengele disintegrated.
Mengele then felt obliged, though with great reluctance, to pay the Glawes for their silence, a fact revealed in a letter from Sedlmeier to Mengele: "In connection with the Santiago affair, you mentioned that you were disgusted that one had to pay friends for their services.
Mengele's answers were so full of philosophical and pseudo-scien-tific verbiage that Rolf began to fear "my mind would be overrun." His father kept straying off the essential points, justifying his racist views, falling back at one point on a detailed critique of prehistoric evolution.
www.posner.com /articles/mengele.htm   (11862 words)

  
 Josef Mengele
Much debate is focused on Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor of Auschwitz, commonly referred to as the "Angel of Death".
Mengele was the second son of a well-to-do Bavarian industrialist whose family still runs an implement factory in Germany.
Hans Münch, a colleague of Mengele’s at Auschwitz, Mengele arrived at the camp in a somewhat privileged position - he had been wounded on the Eastern front and was the recipient of an array of medals, including the Iron Cross.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Mengele.html   (1225 words)

  
 SS-doctor Josef Mengele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Joseph Mengele, born in 1911 in GŸnzburg (Bavaria), originated from an industrialist family and entered the "Stahlhelm", a right-wing militant organisation which had been founded by former soldiers of the war, as a 20-year old man. In 1934 he changed to the SA and became a member of the NSDAP and SS in 1937.
Mengele had already pointed out the importance of researchs on twins.
It was not until the mid-50ies, when the author Ernst Schnabel made Mengele an object of public discussion with his publication about Anne Frank.
www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at /Auschwitz/HTML/Mengele.html   (379 words)

  
 MENGELE
Mengele was very interested in doing autopsies on twins who had died at the exact same time, in the real world one twin might die at 7 while the other might die at 77, but in this closed environment he could study twins who had died at the same moment.
Mengele secretly joined a normal German infantry, and was released after the Allies found the soldiers in which Mengele was hiding.
Mengele lived with a farming family in Argentina for a while, but Mengele was very scared of being caught, so between 1945 and 1979 Mengele moved to and from different countries in South America.
www.sturtevant.com /alex/mengele.htm   (1441 words)

  
 Mengele: The Complete Story
Josef Mengele had become the surviving symbol of Hitler's "Final Solution," the incarnation of its monstrosity-cool, detached, and 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 the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Mengele was now at the epicenter of Nazi philosophical and scientific thinking, which held that it was possible to select, engineer, refine, and ultimately "purify" their race.
The fact that Mengele worked under the aegis of the 55 and the Police Doctor's Office, which had a medical supervisory role in the extermination camps, suggests that he was entrusted with the secret of the Final Solution at quite an early stage.
www.posner.com /book1.htm   (6077 words)

  
 Dr. Josef Mengele, ruthless Nazi concentration camp doctor - The Crime Library
Mengele is in foreground at far right with cigarette in hand
Those sent to the right, usually 70 to 90 percent of all new arrivals, had been condemned to die without even a passing glance from their judge and jury at Auschwitz.
The handsome officer who held omnipotent sway over the fate of all the camp’s prisoners was Dr. Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/history/mengele/index_1.html   (930 words)

  
 Methods and Dr. Mengele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mengele would inject dye into the eyes of jewish children in order to try and make them blue.
Mengele would lock people in pressure chambers to simulate the pressures on pilot's flying at high altitude.
Mengele, afraid of being caught, moved from country to country.
www.promotega.org /hga30020/info.html   (544 words)

  
 All about Angels of Death - Doctors Who Kill, by Katherine Ramsland - The Crime library
Joseph Mengele, the doctor of Auschwitz and ultimate Angel of Death, was an anomaly.
Mengele enjoyed his powerful position and was completely at home with his tasks.
Overall, Mengele was caught up with the idea of genetic cultivation of a superior race, and his esteemed position there at the camp fed his desire to be a god.
www.crimelibrary.com /criminology/doctors   (1211 words)

  
 Josef Mengele
When it was reported that one block was infected with lice, Mengele solved the problem by gassing all the 750 women assigned to it.
Mengele did a number of medical experiments of unspeakable horror at Auschwitz, using twins.
Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of children in an attempt to change their eye color.
www.deathcamps.info /Nazis/page_8.htm   (287 words)

  
 Josef Mengele
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 the Auschwitz concentration camp.
When a mother did not want to be separated from her thirteen-year-old daughter, and bit and scratched the face of the SS man who tried to force her to her assigned line, Mengele drew his gun and shot both the woman and the child.
Mengele supervised how they were placed on his polished marble dissection table and put to sleep.
auschwitz.dk /Mengele/id17.htm   (1552 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Mengele letters reveal life ended in pain and poverty
Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz concentration camp, spent his last years in his Brazilian hideaway lonely, depressed and short of money, according to 86 letters, notes and diaries discovered filed away in a Sao Paulo police archive.
Mengele's diary reveals a man who was unrepentant about Nazi actions during the second world war.
Mengele came from a well-to-do family, and during his first years in exile, in Argentina, he lived well.
www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,,1357285,00.html   (675 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - New letters reveal life of Josef Mengele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mengele — who met newly arrived prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, chose who went to the gas chambers and carried out horrific experiments on children, twins and dwarfs — also writes of his longing and love for Germany.
The letters show that Mengele, who eluded capture after the war ended and lived secretly in South America, most of the time in Brazil, until his death in 1979, died convinced of the superiority of what Nazis called the Aryan race.
At Auschwitz, Mengele was responsible for what came to be known as "selection," choosing who was fit for slave labor and who was to die in the gas chambers.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-28-mengele_x.htm   (711 words)

  
 Joseph Mengele
Mengele was in Dallas during the killing of JFK, which was achieved by trained Monarch slaves.
Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death who carried out mind-control experiments for the Nazi’s (and the Illuminati) during W.W. II may have attempted to incorporate Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian and Hindu mind-control techniques into their mind-control programming/research.
Mengele and his Canadian researchers, like the notorious Montreal psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, used prisoners, mental patients and native children from reserves and residential schools in their efforts to erase and reshape human memory and personality, using drugs, electric shocks and trauma-inducing methods identical to those employed for years in the residential schools.
www.whale.to /b/mengele.html   (1322 words)

  
 What Made This Man? Mengle
Mengele, his friend said, was the only doctor in Auschwitz who possessed that array of medals, and he was enormously proud of them; he frequently referred to his combat experience to bolster his arguments on a variety of matters.
Mengele's research method, according to the inmate anthropologist, was standard for the time - and much the same as that used by her own well-regarded professor at the Polish university where she had obtained her advanced degree.
Mengele's ideological worship, then, included the worship of Nazified ''science,'' and from that stand-point he told his friend that ''it would be a sin, a crime.
www.wellesley.edu /Polisci/wj/100/mengle.htm   (5065 words)

  
 Mengele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mengele was placed in charge of a medical block in Auschwitz, and given his own team of doctors.
Mengele’s twins were kept in a special block under the supervision of many different doctors and specialist.
Mengele injected chemicals—such as methylene blue—to alter eye-color, but the only results were pain, and often blindness or death.
www.angelfire.com /va2/peugeot/other   (404 words)

  
 The Boys from Brazil (1978)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) was among the very worst of the Nazis, the quack doctor who used his medical skills solely for cruel ends in the service of Hitler.
Mengele watches the development of the boys from afar and notices with pride that they develop much like his hero.
As they reach their teens, Mengele arranges the deaths of the adoptive fathers so that the boy can have an important commonality with the Fuehrer: the loss of a father at the appropriate age.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0077269   (663 words)

  
 Lessons of the Josef Mengele affair
For example, although Mengele was only one of numerous camp doctors who took turns deciding which new arrivals at Auschwitz-Birkenau would be assigned to work and which would not, a Jewish inmate who unloaded incoming transports insisted at the trial that Mengele alone was always there for the selections.
A valuable contemporary record of Mengele's character and performance during his stay at Auschwitz is the "Evaluation of SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele," dated 19 August 1944, prepared by the Auschwitz SS Physician's Office.
Mengele repeatedly insisted that he had not committed any crime, and that instead he had become a victim of great injustice.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v06/v06p377_Weber.html   (2551 words)

  
 Victims of Mengele
At Auschwitz Mengele was the chief provider for the gas chambers and their crematoria - and did well!
These twins as young as five and six years of age were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected.
Only a few of these twins survived the experiments which they were subjected to at the hands of Mengele.
auschwitz.dk /Mengele   (111 words)

  
 Josef Mengele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mengele would often act very fatherly towards them and give them chocolates and candies.
Most of the older children saw through Mengele’s outward kindness and were very uneasy and scared of what Mengele had in store for them.
After a while, most twins learned that many of the groups who left for the experiments did not come back, and feared the day their number would be called.
www.fatherryan.org /holocaust/Mengele/Twins.htm   (221 words)

  
 Josef Mengele, The Angel Of Death
They later recalled how they were visited by a smiling Uncle Mengele who brought them candy and clothes.
Josef Mengele was the chief provider for the gas chambers at Auschwitz - and did well!
They were men of fine standing, cultured, husbands who morning and night kissed their wives, fathers who tucked their children into bed...
www.mengele.dk   (363 words)

  
 Doctors
These German doctors saved the lives of many prisoner doctors, typically not out of mercy but to enlist them as collaborators in their human experiments.
Twin children frequently called him "Uncle Pepi", and other twins told how Mengele would bring them sweets and invite them for a ride in his car, which turned out to be "a little drive with Uncle Pepi, to the gas chamber." Simon J. put it most succinctly: "He could be friendly but kill."
And he directly saved lives in additional ways: by protecting prisoner doctors from selections, by finding them and rescuing them from the gas chamber when they had been selected, and by the benign experiments...
www.spectacle.org /695/doctors.html   (1383 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.