1. “The angel of death” Josef Mengele
By: Michelle Davidson
I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.- Hippocratic Oath
The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it. - Joseph Mengele

2. Why “The Angel of death”
"He had a look that said 'I am the power,'" said a survivor.
Why “The Angel of death”
“Mengele was an attractive man. A perennial little smile showed the gap between his front teeth. Immaculately dressed in jodhpurs, he wore a cap bearing the SS insignia and carried the obligatory riding crop, constantly slapping it against his gleaming black boots. Whenever he spoke to me, he was very polite, giving the impression that he was interested in me. It was hard to believe that his little smile and courteous behaviour were just a facade behind which he devised the most horrific murderous schemes.” Ruth Elias, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
Although an accomplished pianist singer, as well as an intelligent and charismatic man, he was a deceiving murder underneath this façade.
Good looking
Made selections with just a push of a pen or pencil
Was extremely
He would choose the prettiest woman and entertain her all night, only to shoot her in the morning.
He was in charge of the gas chamber selections.

3. Table of contents Where He Came from What Did He Do Preferred Victims
Tools He Used
His Past Time
Why Did He Do It
Where Was The Morality
Escaping Justice

4. Where he came from Born: March 16, 1911, the eldest of three boys
Lived in Gausnburg
He studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1935 his dissertation dealt with racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw
Fought for the Nazi’s
Dr. Josef Mengele arrived at Birkenau in early May 1943, worked there till end of war

5. Mustard Gas & Other Weapons Deisese & Bacteria Psychological
What did he do
Freezing
Vivisections
Eye Colour
Sea Water
High Altitude
Mustard Gas & Other Weapons
Deisese & Bacteria
Psychological
Sulphanilamide
Switching limbs & Siamese twins
Babies
Research

6. Subjects were immersed in freezing cold water till death or near death
In some cases they tried to re-warm them up

7. Subjects opened up and studied with no anaesthesia
Vivisections
Subjects opened up and studied with no anaesthesia
Tried to learn more about the body
Meticulous notes kept of every inch

8. Victims experienced excruciating pain
Eye colour
Injected chemicals into their eyes like phenolthaline
Usually left them temporally blind or permanently
Victims experienced excruciating pain

9. Forced to drink salt water
Sea water
Forced to drink salt water
Tested to see if they could make it drinkable
All victims dehydrated and died from this experiment
Many in desperation tried to drink the water off the freshly mopped floor

10. High altitude
Tested was for humans to survive high pressure without suits and equipment
Victims usually died

11. Mustard gas & other weapons
Poison
Mustard Gas
Incendiary Bomb
He would test them on victims/prisoners and see which treatments worked the best.

12. Spotted Fever (Typhus) Experiments
Disease & bacteria
Interesting Fact
Malaria Experiments
Spotted Fever (Typhus) Experiments
When Mengele first came to Auschwitz he rid the entire female camp side of typhus, in his own ruthless manner
Gassed the first 600 women from first set of barracks
Then all the women from the second set of barrack were taken out bathed and given new cloths
They were then moved into the vacant living quarters
The second two steps were repeated until all the barracks were cleansed
Problem solved, and more scum dead

13. He used the Daisy Game on children
psychological
He used the Daisy Game on children
It used a mixture of electric pulses and a sadistically smiling Josef Mengele as well as an expected routine of torture and death

14. Purposely inflict wounds to simulate war wounds
Sulphanilamide
Purposely inflict wounds to simulate war wounds
Used bacteria such as streptococcus, gas gangrene, and tetanus.
Aggravated wound by:
Rubbing ground glass
Wood shavings
Tried to treat with Sulphanilamide
Injuries were serious and would sometimes lead to death

15. Switching limbs & Siamese twins
He would swap limbs between people
It always failed and they were in great pain before they died because of blood types among others things
He attempted to create Siamese twins by sewing children together
The children sewn together were in immense pain with no pain killers to help
Their cuts and treated areas usually became infected causing a slow and extremely painful death

16. Mengele preformed proper medical deliveries
Babies
Mengele preformed proper medical deliveries
He treated them immaculately and he was kind to them, giving a false sense of security
However he took them for experiments or just out right killed them
According to one Jew’s story after she gave birth Mengele ordered that her breast be bound
He wanted to see how long her baby would take to die from starvation

17. General medical techniques to gain information
General Research
General medical techniques to gain information
Most was done inhumanly as can be seen from the story of the two Hungarian twins
To define the procedure Enema used in the twins story if ever asked about

18. His preferred subjects
Giants
Dwarfs
Russians
He would use Russian captives for freezing experiments to see how there body had adapted to the cold when really it was mostly their garb
Twins
Wanted to find a way to create the master race faster by creating duplicates through twins
Other genetic deformations
Wanted to understand how genetics work and how they mutate

19. Scalpel Thermometer Stethoscope etc. Normal medical tools Needles
Tools he used
Normal medical tools
Scalpel
Thermometer
Stethoscope
Needles
etc.
He also used scientific experimentation procedure to preform his experiments and gather knowledge

20. His Past time at Auschwitz
20 miles from Auschwitz, is a place for the guards to relax and forget about the 3,000 Jews that were killed per day
All the while the guards enjoyed:
Games
Dancing
Lots of food
And cavorting with the Helferinnen (Females that worked alongside the Army in a variety of positions)
Music

21. To have power over others
Why did he do it ?
Power & Science?
Sadistic?
Wanted to be better
To have power over others
He wanted to please the Fur to move further up the ranks gaining more control
He wanted to crate a perfect army of the ideal Germans
Enjoys causing the pain inflicted by his research
He wanted to make the Jews and others fear him
His only childhood issue was his over expecting father who showed very little intimacy

22. Where was the Morality left out ?
Morals
Facts/Authority
The morals that were needed
Do what is right
Question what you are given
Respect others but have a mind of your own
Listen to authority but not without question
Do your best
These were not taught in school for Josef Mengele, they are not particularly taught in school now. Everyone has to find a moral compass of there own.
He was taught by the authoritative figure of a teacher in school to:
Follow the rules no matter what
The facts are what is important
Focus on what happened not why
Do not question authority
They did not teach why something was what it was, the reasons behind the facts, or to question what is given.

23. Escaping Justice
Received papers from fellow prisoner, Dr. Fritz Ulmann; he did not have the usual SS’s blood type tattooed beneath his arm so the American Army did not realise he was a member and let him go
Laid low at George Fischer’s(a pseudonym of a fellow Nazi) farm for three years
1949 escaped to Argentina
1954 divorced from Irene
1956 had his name officially changed back to Josef Mengele
1958 married his brother, Karl's, widow - Martha Mengele
June 7, West Germany finally issued their first arrest warrant for Mengele
1959 at some point moved from Argentina to Paraguay
1964 the Universities of Frankfurt and Munich withdrew his academic degrees
Believed to have died on February 7, 1979 on the beach at Bertioga in Embu, Brazil while suffering a stroke while swimming in the ocean and drowned.
It has been verified that 1985 the grave in Embu, Braxil marked “Wolfgang Gerhard” was in fact Mengele’s
January 1945, fled Auschwitz
Arrived at Gross-Rosen camp before the Russians;
He then left Gross-Rosen camp before Russians liberated it on February 11, 1945
Captured as prisoner of war and held in a POW camp near Munich