and formed a central element in it." (Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, 964)MENGELE, JOSEF (1911- ?). Camp doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp. ..appointed chiefdoctor in 1943 by Himmler ... joined other doctors (Koenig, Thilon, Klein) in the task of choosingemployable Jews to operated the industrial machines and sending others to the gas chambers.Theselection was haphazard. The inmates were paraded before Mengele, who called either "Right!"(work squads) or "Left!" (gas chambers). ...[he] promoted medical experimentation on inmates,especially twins ... supervised an operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn together tocreate Siamese twins ... hands of the two children became badly infected where the veins hadbeenresected.Witnesses at the Frankfurt Trial told of [his] standing before his victims with his thumb in hispistolbelt and choosing candidates for the gas chambers. When it was reported that one block wasinfected with lice, [he] solved the problem by gassing all the 750 women assigned to it.Work CitedSnyder, Dr. Louis L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. New York: Paragon House, 1989. ISBN1-55778-144-3THE ANGEL OF DEATH: JOSEF MENGELE"Right, left", what man could send people to their death with a flick ofa cane, without batting an eye? Josef Mengele. The stories andpictures of Auschwitz tell a gruesome tale of death and torture. Storiesof the abused, used, and killed, the tales of the torturees have beentold, but what about the torturers? The SS, the "doctors", the oneswho carried out the deeds, what was their life like? That is what thispaper will focus on. What went on inside the pathology lab, and whatwent on inside the pathologist.Millions of people passed through Auschwitz, Mengele's domain,during the Holocaust. Early in 1945, it was recorded that over700,000 people were currently "living" (dying) there. Over 1 millionpeople were killed at Auschwitz, about a fifth of all the Jews killed.People were brought to Auschwitz in cattle c...
