Joseph Mengele and his Atrocities Three thousand twins entered Auschwitz between 1940 and 1944. Only two hundred and fifty pairs of twins ever had the smell of freedom again. Why did this unfortunate event occur? It occurred because the Nazis party was in control and Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer and he wanted a perfect race. "Right, left", what kind of a man could send people to their death with a flick of a cane, without one scent of remorse or one inkling of guilt? Such a man did exist. His name was Josef Mengele. Hitler gave Mengele all the resources he could and this is the main reason why he went to Auschwitz, because the of the availability of the victims he could do his work on. The stories and pictures of Auschwitz tell a gruesome tale of death and torture. Josef Mengele performed horrific experiments on twins, justified by official Nazis party policies to try and create the "perfect human being". To this day, he serves as a warning signal of the evil, man is capable of doing by trying to do good for one's own race with the exclusion of others. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany. His parents, Karl and Walburga, went on to have two more sons, Karl and Alois. Josef was a bright and cheerful child in his early days. He was full of ambition and had high hopes for his future. In 1930 he graduated from the Gymnasium and in 1935 he was awarded a PhD from the University of Munich. In 1937 he was appointed a research assistant at the Third Reich Institute for Heredity, Biology, and Racial Purity at the University of Frankfurt. There he worked with Professor Otmar Freiherr von Vershuer. In May 1938 he joined the SS A.K.ASchutzstapple, which was an elite unit which protected Hitler and his important dignitaries. In 1940 he joined the medical corps (Sanitatsinspektion) of the Waffen SS, which was a widely fea...
