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Josef Rudolf Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). [1]
Josef Mengele: March 16, 1911: February 7, 1979: 67 years, 328 days Human medical experimentation, particularly children, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz: Escaped to Brazil; evaded arrest and suffered a heart attack while swimming in 1979 Fritz Katzmann: May 6, 1906: September 19, 1957: 51 years, 136 days
Headed by Josef Mengele from 1943–44, [13] twin experiments were of particular interest as one twin could serve as subject with the other as the control. [14] This research also hoped to gain insight in how Germans could reproduce more twins. [ 15 ]
She and her twin sister, Miriam, experienced horrors in the inhum ane medical experiments of SS physician Josef Mengele. Laks was initially lined up to be murdered in gas chambers, but her older ...
Most of the staff of the Institute were able to escape trial, most notably Mengele who escaped to Brazil, where he died of a stroke while swimming in 1979. Efforts to return the Namibian skulls taken by Fischer were started with an investigation by the University of Freiburg in 2011 and completed with the return of the skulls in March 2014 to ...
Assigned to supervise twins used in the medical experiments of Josef Mengele. Saved children from the gas chamber on several occasions. After the camp's liberation, he took 157 Mengele twins and homeless children to safety in Hungary. 29 years old in 1944. Miklós Nyiszli [59] June 17, 1901: May 5, 1956: 54 Jewish June 1944 – January 18, 1945
Eva Mozes Kor (January 31, 1934 – July 4, 2019) was a Romanian-born American survivor of the Holocaust.Along with her twin sister Miriam, Kor was subjected to human experimentation under the direction of SS Doctor Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
He also promoted Josef Mengele in August 1944. Bruno Weber — He tested the compatibility of blood types by bleeding prisoners and injecting them with other blood groups. He also experimented on barbiturates and morphine derivatives for mind control purposes.