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(Q57109)

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Josef Mengele

Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)

  • Wolfgang Gerhard
  • Helmut Gregor
  • Uncle Mengele
  • Fausto Rindón
  • S. Josi Alvers Aspiazu
  • Angel of Death
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Josef Mengele

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given name
Josef
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family name
Mengele
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pseudonym
Wolfgang Gerhard
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Helmut Gregor
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Fausto Rindón
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S. Josi Alvers Aspiazu
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nickname
Todesengel (German)
literal translation
Angel of Death (English)
pronunciation audio
De-Todesengel.ogg
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IPA transcription
ˈtoːdəsˌʔɛŋl̩
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Wikimedia import URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
Ángel de la muerte (Spanish)
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stated in
El Mundo
reference URL
http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/09/10/59b3de28e5fdeafa3a8b465d.html
title
La búsqueda fallida de Mengele, el 'Ángel de la muerte' (Spanish)
A halál angyala (Hungarian)
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father
Karl Mengele
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occupation
military physician
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torturer
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stated in
The 7 Most Notorious Nazis Who Escaped to South America
archive URL
http://web.archive.org/web/20180104011423/https://www.history.com/news/the-7-most-notorious-nazis-who-escaped-to-south-america
quotation
he was assigned to the Auschwitz death camp. There, he used the prisoners—particularly twins, pregnant women and the disabled—as human guinea pigs. Mengele even tortured and killed children with his medical experiments. (English)
employer
Otmar von Verschuer
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stated in
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
reference URL
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
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At the time of Rockefeller's endowment, Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a hero in American eugenics circles, functioned as a head of the Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Rockefeller funding of that Institute continued both directly and through other research conduits during Verschuer's early tenure. In 1935, Verschuer left the Institute to form a rival eugenics facility in Frankfurt that was much heralded in the American eugenic press. Research on twins in the Third Reich exploded, backed up by government decrees. Verschuer wrote in Der Erbarzt, a eugenic doctor's journal he edited, that Germany's war would yield a "total solution to the Jewish problem."Verschuer had a long-time assistant. His name was Josef Mengele. On May 30, 1943, Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. Verschuer notified the German Research Society, "My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined me in this branch of research. He is presently employed as Hauptsturmführer [captain] and camp physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anthropological testing of the most diverse racial groups in this concentration camp is being carried out with permission of the SS Reichsführer [Himmler]." (English)
work period (end)
1979
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religion or worldview
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conflict
World War II
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depicted by
The 7 Most Notorious Nazis Who Escaped to South America
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archive URL
http://web.archive.org/web/20180104011423/https://www.history.com/news/the-7-most-notorious-nazis-who-escaped-to-south-america
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An SS officer, Mengele was sent at the start of World War II to the eastern front to repel the Soviets and received an Iron Cross for his bravery and service. After being wounded and declared unfit for active duty, he was assigned to the Auschwitz death camp. There, he used the prisoners—particularly twins, pregnant women and the disabled—as human guinea pigs. Mengele even tortured and killed children with his medical experiments.HIS PATH TO SOUTH AMERICA: After World War II, Mengele spent three-plus years in hiding in Germany. In 1949, with the help of a Catholic clergy member, the “Angel of Death” fled via Italy to Argentina where he owned a mechanical equipment shop and remarried under his own name in Uruguay in 1958. The doctor lived in various Buenos Aires suburbs, but after hearing of Eichmann’s capture, went underground, first in Paraguay, then in Brazil. (English)
Commons category
Josef Mengele
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Identifiers

FAST ID
74586
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NL CR AUT ID
xx0029939
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NUKAT ID
n99033675
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Libris-URI
86lnqt5s0m1rm6z
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stated in
LIBRIS
publication date
15 October 2012
retrieved
24 August 2018
SELIBR ID
217254
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ČSFD person ID
82504
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Lex ID
Josef_Mengele
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Dodis ID
P7324
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FactGrid item ID
Q971402
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Giant Bomb ID
3005-12711
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NE.se ID
josef-mengele
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SNAC ARK ID
w6931ktt
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WikiKids ID
Josef_Mengele
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WikiTree person ID
Mengele-1
subject named as
Josef Rudolf Mengele (16 Mar 1911 - 8 Feb 1979)
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