olleagues, Professor Hans Grebe, stated that "There was nothing in his personality to suggest that he would do what he did." If Mengele became a cold-blooded monster at the top of his Nazi career, he definitely was influenced by some of Germany's most diabolical minds. As a student Mengele went to the lectures of Dr. Ernst Rudin, who explained that there were some lives not worth living and more importantly that doctors had the responsibility to destroy these lives so you can remove them from the general population. Rudin's well-known views gained the attention of Hitler himself, and he was drafted to help in making the Law for the Protection of Heredity Health, which passed in 1933, the same year that the Nazis took complete control of the German government. Rudin contributed to the Nazi law that called for the sterilization of the people with the following flaws, for fear that they may reproduce and continue to ruin the German gene pool: feeblemindedness; schizophrenia; manic depression; epilepsy; hereditary blindness; deafness; physical deformities; Huntington's disease; and alcoholism. In 1934 Hitler ordered the SA to combine with the Stalhelm organization which would make Mengele a member. However, he had a kidney problem that put him in a weakened condition which forced him to resign from the organization. He was now free to use all of his time to with his studies. Five years after entering the University, Mengele was awarded a Ph.D. for his thesis entitled "Racial Morphological Research on the Lower Jaw Section of Four Racial Groups." Mengele suggested that it was possible to identify different racial groups by studying the jaw. In 1936 Mengele passed his state medical examination and began working in Leipzig at the university medical clinic. The next year, 1937, proved to be a turning point for both Mengele's career and the history of the Holocaust itself. He received a position as a research assistant with the Third Reich Insti...
