Doctor Mengele is the angel of death. The scary ideas of Dr. Mengele

Today it is recognized that experiments Nazi doctors over powerless concentration camp prisoners greatly helped the development of medicine. But this did not make these experiments any less monstrous and cruel. Butchers in white coats sent hundreds of prisoners to slaughter, considering them just animals.

When, after the war, the public learned about the atrocities of doctors with lightning in their buttonholes, a separate Nuremberg trial on the doctors' case. Unfortunately, one of the main criminals managed to escape justice. Doctor Joseph Mengele escaped from doomed Germany in time!

Mengele conducted his inhumane experiments on prisoners of the concentration camp reporting to him. Among the captives the sadist was called " Angel of Death».

During his 21 months of work in Auschwitz, Joseph personally sent tens of thousands of people to the next world. Characteristically, until the end of his life the doctor never repented of his crimes.

Often in such people cruelty is combined with incredible cowardice. But Mengele was exception to the rule.

Before Auschwitz, Josef served as a doctor in a sapper battalion in one of the SS tank divisions. For saving two colleagues from a burning tank, the medic was even awarded the Iron Cross, first class!

After being seriously wounded, the future “Angel of Death” was declared unfit for service at the front. On May 24, 1943, Mengele took over the duties of the doctor of the “Gypsy camp” of Auschwitz. Within a year, Joseph rotted all his charges in gas chambers, after which he was promoted, becoming first physician of Birkenau.

For a retired military doctor, the concentration camp prisoners were simply consumables. Obsessed with the idea of ​​racial purity, Mengele was ready to do anything to achieve his dreams.

Joseph conducted experiments on children with an ease that horrified even his colleagues. monster in human form, the man cut his own steak for breakfast and dissected live babies with equal ease...

Of particular interest to Mengele were twins. The doctor was trying to understand what causes the birth of two very similar children.

Joseph's interest was purely practical: if every German woman, instead of one child, began to give birth to two or three at once, then there would be no need to worry about the fate of the Aryan nation.

Blood transfusions from one twin to the other were only the most harmless from Mengele's experiments. The fanatic transplanted the organs of twins, tried to repaint their eyes with chemicals, sewed living people together, wanting to form a single living organism out of brothers and sisters. Of course, all these experiments were carried out without anesthesia.

The cold-blooded cruelty of the scientist caused visceral fear in the captives. Many Auschwitz prisoners always remembered how Mengele greeted them at the gate.

To the point of impossibility clean and tidy Always dressed to the nines, the always cheerful and smiling Josef personally inspected each batch of new arrivals. Having selected the most interesting and healthy “specimens,” the doctor without hesitation sent the rest to the gas chambers.

To the cold-blooded bastard good luck. From 1945 to 1949, Mengele hid in Bavaria, and then, seizing the moment, fled to Argentina. Wheels on Latin America, The “Angel of Death” hid from Mossad agents hunting for his head for almost 35 years.

Until the end of his life, the inveterate Nazi claimed that “ never harmed anyone personally" But one day, while Joseph was swimming in the ocean, he had a stroke. The elderly sadist sank like a stone...

Josef Mengele always dreamed of becoming famous. The terrible criminal not only managed to evade justice, but also, in a sense, fulfilled his dream. But it’s unlikely that the doctor wanted his name to make people grimace in disgust as it does now!

Previously, we wrote about a concentration camp where the blood of child prisoners was pumped out!

And before that they talked about the secret Nazi project “Lebensborn”.

Among all the Nazi criminals from the Third Reich, one stands out in particular, who, perhaps, even among the most vile murderers and vile sadists, rightfully takes the place of the most vile of the vile. Some of the Nazis can, albeit with great stretch, be classified as lost sheep who turned into wolves. Others take their place as ideological criminals. But this one... This one did his dirty work with obvious pleasure, even with pleasure, satisfying his basest, wildest desires. This complexed, sick creature combined Nazi ideas with obvious mental disorders and earned the nickname “Doctor Death.” Sometimes, however, he was called almost the “angel of death.” But this is too flattering a nickname for him. It's about about the so-called Dr. Josef Mengele - the executioner from Auschwitz, who miraculously escaped human judgment, but, it seems, only in order to await a higher judgment.

Joseph Mengele received Nazi training from childhood. The fact is that he, born in 1911 in Günzburg, Bavaria, was the son of the founder of an agricultural equipment company, Karl Mengele. The company was called “Karl Mengele and Sons” (Joseph had two brothers - Karl and Alois). Naturally, the prosperity of the company depended on how the farmers felt. Farmers, like, in fact, millions of other Germans, after the defeat of Germany in the First World War and the most severe political and economic sanctions imposed against it, as they would say now, did not feel well. And it is not surprising that when Hitler came to power with his Nazi party and his unbridled populism, who promised mountains of gold to shopkeepers and the average bourgeoisie, seeing his electoral base in them, Karl Mengele supported the Nazis with all his heart and part of his wallet. So the son was brought up in “appropriate” conditions.

Misanthropic dissertation

By the way, Joseph Mengele did not immediately go to study medicine (yes, he refused to continue his father’s work, apparently, from a young age he was drawn to experiments on people), no. At first he plunged into the activities of the right-wing conservative-monarchist organization " Steel helmet", which had two wings - political and military. However, many political organizations Germany in those years had their own fighters at hand. Including communists. Later, namely in 1933, the “Steel Helmet” successfully joined the terrible SA (the organization of Nazi stormtroopers). But something went wrong. Perhaps Mengele sensed what the matter smelled like (the SA was subsequently virtually destroyed by Hitler, and the leadership led by Rehm was destroyed - such was the intra-Nazi competition). Or maybe, as the biographers of this fiend of hell claim, he actually developed health problems. Josef left the Steel Helm and went to study medicine. By the way, about passions and ideology. The topic of Mengele's doctoral dissertation was “Racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw.” So it was originally still that “scientist”.

The usual path of an ideological Nazi

Then Mengele did everything that a “righteous” Nazi was supposed to do. He joined, of course, the NSDAP. He didn't stop there. Became a member of the SS. Then he even found himself in tank division SS Viking. Well, like in a tank division. Of course, Mengele was not sitting in the tank. He was a doctor in the sapper battalion of this division and even received the Iron Cross. Reportedly for saving two tank crews who were pulled out of a burning tank. The war, or rather its active, risky phase, ended for Mengele already in 1942. He was wounded on the eastern front. He received treatment for a long time, but became unfit for service at the front. But they found him a “job,” as they say, “to his liking.” The one to which he had been heading his entire adult life. Pure executioner work. In May 1943 he became a "doctor" at Auschwitz. In the so-called “gypsy camp”. This is exactly what they say: let the wolf into the sheepfold.

Concentration camp career

But Mengele remained a simple “doctor” for only a little over a year. At the end of the summer of 1944, he was appointed "chief doctor" at Birkenau (Auschwitz was the whole system camps, and Birkenau is the so-called inner camp). By the way, Mengele was transferred to Birkenau after the “gypsy camp” was closed. At the same time, all its inhabitants were simply taken and burned in gas chambers. In the new place, Mengele went wild. He personally met trains with arriving prisoners and decided who would go to work, who would go straight to the gas chambers, and who would go to experiments.

Hell of an experimenter

We will not describe in detail exactly how Mengele abused the prisoners. This is all too disgusting and inhumane. Let us present only a few facts to clarify for the reader its direction, so to speak, “ scientific experiments" And this educated barbarian believed, yes, believed that he was engaged in “science.” And for the sake of this very “science” people can be subjected to any torture and bullying. It is clear that there was no smell of science there.

It smelled, as mentioned above, of this bastard’s complexes creeping out, of his personal sadistic inclinations, which he satisfied under the guise of scientific necessity.

What did Mengele do?

It is clear that he had no shortage of “test subjects”. And therefore, he did not spare the “consumables” that he considered the prisoners who fell into his clutches. Even the survivors of his terrible experiments were then killed. But this bastard was sorry for the painkillers, which, of course, were necessary for the “great German army.” And he carried out all his experiments on living people, including amputations and even dissections (!) of prisoners without anesthesia. It was especially hard on the twins. The sadist had a special interest in them. He carefully looked for them among the prisoners and dragged them to his torture chamber. And, for example, he sewed two together, trying to make one out of them. He sprayed chemicals into the eyes of children, allegedly looking for a way to change the color of the iris of the eyes. He, you see, was researching female endurance. And to do this, I passed a high voltage current through them. Or, here, famous case, when Mengele sterilized an entire group of Polish Catholic nuns. Do you know how? Using X-rays. It must be said that for Mengele all the camp prisoners were “subhumans.”

But it was the gypsies and Jews who received the most attention. However, let's stop depicting these “experiments”. Just believe that this was truly a monster of the human race.

Gray "rat trails"

Some of the readers probably know what “rat trails” are. This is what American intelligence agencies called the escape routes they identified for Nazi criminals after defeat in the war, in order to avoid prosecution and punishment for their atrocities. Evil tongues claim that these same American intelligence services themselves subsequently used “rat trails” to lead the Nazis out of attack and then use them for their own purposes. Many of the Nazis fled to Latin American countries.

One of the most famous "rat trails" is the one created by famous network ODESSA, the brainchild of Otto Skorzeny himself. True, his involvement in this has not been proven. But it's not that important. The important thing is that thanks to precisely this “rat trail” he escaped to South America and Joseph Mengele.

Hello Argentina

As we now know, Mengele really, like a rat, sensed the imminent sinking of the already leaky ship called the “Third Reich.” And of course, he understood that if he fell into the hands of the Soviet investigative authorities, he would not get away with it and would answer for everything to the fullest extent. Therefore, he fled closer to the Western allies of the USSR. This was in April 1945. He, dressed in a soldier's uniform, was detained. However, then a strange thing happened. Allegedly, Western specialists were unable to establish his real identity and... released him on all four sides. It’s hard to believe. Rather, the conclusion suggests itself about the deliberate removal of the sadist from trial. Although the general confusion at the end of the war could have played a role. Be that as it may, Mengele, after spending three years in Bavaria, fled along the “rat trail” to Argentina.

Escape from Mossad

We will not describe in detail the life of a Nazi criminal in Argentina. Let's just say that one day he almost fell into the hands of the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Mossad agents.

They followed his trail. But at the same time they were on the trail of the main Nazi “specialist in final decision The Jewish Question" by Adolf Eichmann. Trying to capture both at the same time was extremely risky.

And the Mossad settled on Eichmann, leaving Mengele for later. However, after Israeli intelligence literally kidnapped Eichmann from Buenos Aires, Mengele understood everything and quickly fled the city. First to Paraguay and then to Brazil.

The disease took revenge

It must be said that the Mossad was close several times to discovering and capturing Mengele, but something went wrong. So the famous sadist lived in Brazil until 1979. And then... One day he went swimming in the ocean. While taking ocean baths, he suffered a stroke. And Mengele drowned. It was only in 1985 that his grave was found. Only in 1992 were researchers finally convinced that the remains belonged to Mengele. After death, the Nazi and sadist still had to serve people. And, by the way, precisely in the scientific field. His remains serve as scientific material at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo.

Auschwitz prisoners were released four months before the end of World War II. By that time there were few of them left. Almost one and a half million people died, most of them Jews. For several years, the investigation continued, which led to terrible discoveries: people not only died in gas chambers, but also became victims of Dr. Mengele, who used them as guinea pigs.

Auschwitz: the story of a city

A small Polish town in which more than a million innocent people were killed is called Auschwitz all over the world. We call it Auschwitz. Concentration camps, experiments on women and children, gas chambers, torture, executions - all these words have been associated with the name of the city for more than 70 years.

It will sound quite strange in Russian Ich lebe in Auschwitz - “I live in Auschwitz.” Is it possible to live in Auschwitz? They learned about the experiments on women in the concentration camp after the end of the war. Over the years, new facts have been discovered. One is scarier than the other. The truth about the camp called shocked the whole world. Research continues today. Many books have been written and many films have been made on this topic. Auschwitz has become our symbol of painful, difficult death.

Where did mass murders of children take place and terrible experiments on women? In Which city do millions of people on earth associate with the phrase “death factory”? Auschwitz.

Experiments on people were carried out in a camp located near the city, which today is home to 40 thousand people. It's calm locality with a good climate. Auschwitz for the first time in historical documents mentioned in the twelfth century. In the 13th century there were already so many Germans here that their language began to prevail over Polish. In the 17th century, the city was captured by the Swedes. In 1918 it became Polish again. 20 years later, a camp was organized here, on the territory of which crimes took place, the likes of which humanity had never known.

Gas chamber or experiment

In the early forties, the answer to the question of where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located was known only to those who were doomed to death. Unless, of course, you take the SS men into account. Some prisoners, fortunately, survived. Later they talked about what happened within the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Experiments on women and children, carried out by a man whose name terrified the prisoners, were terrible truth, which not everyone is ready to listen to.

The gas chamber is a terrible invention of the Nazis. But there are worse things. Krystyna Zywulska is one of the few who managed to leave Auschwitz alive. In her book of memoirs, she mentions an incident: a prisoner sentenced to death by Dr. Mengele does not go, but runs into the gas chamber. Because death from poisonous gas is not as terrible as the torment from the experiments of the same Mengele.

Creators of the "death factory"

So what is Auschwitz? This is a camp that was originally intended for political prisoners. The author of the idea is Erich Bach-Zalewski. This man had the rank of SS Gruppenführer, and during the Second World War he led punitive operations. With his light hand, dozens were sentenced to death. He took Active participation in the suppression of the uprising that took place in Warsaw in 1944.

The SS Gruppenführer's assistants found a suitable location in a small Polish town. There were already military barracks here, and in addition, there was a well-established railway connection. In 1940, a man named He arrived here. He will be hanged near the gas chambers by decision of the Polish court. But this will happen two years after the end of the war. And then, in 1940, Hess liked these places. He took on the new business with great enthusiasm.

Inhabitants of the concentration camp

This camp did not immediately become a “death factory.” At first, mostly Polish prisoners were sent here. Only a year after the organization of the camp, the tradition of drawing a prisoner on the hand appeared. serial number. Every month more and more Jews were brought. By the end of Auschwitz they made up 90% of total number prisoners. The number of SS men here also grew continuously. In total, the concentration camp received about six thousand overseers, punishers and other “specialists.” Many of them were put on trial. Some disappeared without a trace, including Joseph Mengele, whose experiments terrified prisoners for several years.

We will not give the exact number of Auschwitz victims here. Let’s just say that more than two hundred children died in the camp. Most of them were sent to gas chambers. Some ended up in the hands of Josef Mengele. But this man was not the only one who conducted experiments on people. Another so-called doctor is Karl Clauberg.

Beginning in 1943, a huge number of prisoners were admitted to the camp. Most of them should have been destroyed. But the organizers of the concentration camp were practical people, and therefore decided to take advantage of the situation and use certain part prisoners as research material.

Karl Cauberg

This man supervised the experiments carried out on women. His victims were predominantly Jewish and Gypsy women. The experiments included organ removal, testing new drugs, and radiation. What kind of person is Karl Cauberg? Who is he? What kind of family did you grow up in, how was his life? And most importantly, where did the cruelty that goes beyond human understanding come from?

By the beginning of the war, Karl Cauberg was already 41 years old. In the twenties, he served as chief physician at the clinic at the University of Königsberg. Kaulberg was not a hereditary doctor. He was born into a family of artisans. Why he decided to connect his life with medicine is unknown. But there is evidence that he served as an infantryman in the First World War. Then he graduated from the University of Hamburg. Apparently, he was so fascinated by medicine that he abandoned his military career. But Kaulberg was not interested in healing, but in research. In the early forties, he began searching for the most practical way to sterilize women who were not of the Aryan race. To conduct experiments he was transferred to Auschwitz.

Kaulberg's experiments

The experiments consisted of introducing a special solution into the uterus, which led to serious disturbances. After the experiment, the reproductive organs were removed and sent to Berlin for further research. There is no data on exactly how many women became victims of this “scientist”. After the end of the war, he was captured, but soon, just seven years later, oddly enough, he was released under an agreement on the exchange of prisoners of war. Returning to Germany, Kaulberg did not suffer from remorse. On the contrary, he was proud of his “achievements in science.” As a result, he began to receive complaints from people who suffered from Nazism. He was arrested again in 1955. He spent even less time in prison this time. He died two years after his arrest.

Joseph Mengele

The prisoners nicknamed this man the “angel of death.” Josef Mengele personally met the trains with new prisoners and carried out the selection. Some were sent to gas chambers. Others go to work. He used others in his experiments. One of the Auschwitz prisoners described this man as follows: “Tall, with a pleasant appearance, he looks like a film actor.” He never raised his voice and spoke politely - and this terrified the prisoners.

From the biography of the Angel of Death

Josef Mengele was the son of a German entrepreneur. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and anthropology. In the early thirties he joined the Nazi organization, but soon left it for health reasons. In 1932, Mengele joined the SS. During the war he served in the medical forces and even received the Iron Cross for bravery, but was wounded and declared unfit for service. Mengele spent several months in the hospital. After recovery, he was sent to Auschwitz, where he began his scientific activities.

Selection

Selecting victims for experiments was Mengele's favorite pastime. The doctor only needed one glance at the prisoner to determine his state of health. He sent most of the prisoners to gas chambers. And only a few prisoners managed to delay death. It was hard with those whom Mengele saw as “guinea pigs.”

Most likely, this person suffered from an extreme form of mental disorder. He even enjoyed the thought that he had a huge amount of human lives. That is why he was always next to the arriving train. Even when this was not required of him. His criminal actions were driven not only by the desire for scientific research, but also by the desire to rule. Just one word from him was enough to send tens or hundreds of people to the gas chambers. Those that were sent to laboratories became material for experiments. But what was the purpose of these experiments?

An invincible belief in the Aryan utopia, obvious mental deviations - these are the components of the personality of Joseph Mengele. All his experiments were aimed at creating a new means that could stop the reproduction of representatives of unwanted peoples. Mengele not only equated himself with God, he placed himself above him.

Joseph Mengele's experiments

The Angel of Death dissected babies and castrated boys and men. He performed the operations without anesthesia. Experiments on women involved high-voltage electric shocks. He conducted these experiments to test endurance. Mengele once sterilized several Polish nuns using X-rays. But the main passion of the “Doctor of Death” was experiments on twins and people with physical defects.

To each his own

On the gates of Auschwitz it was written: Arbeit macht frei, which means “work sets you free.” The words Jedem das Seine were also present here. Translated into Russian - “To each his own.” At the gates of Auschwitz, at the entrance to the camp in which more than a million people died, a saying of the ancient Greek sages appeared. The principle of justice was used by the SS as the motto of the most cruel idea in the entire history of mankind.

Dr. Josef Mengele is one of the most demonized Nazi criminals. Unfortunately, most of the nightmares attributed to the doctor are absolutely reliable and, remembering the terrible stories of the surviving “patients,” one can believe anything. But was the doctor a madman or a bloodthirsty maniac? Obviously not. Having a sharp mind and brilliant education, the “Angel of Death” was deprived of humanity and a sense of compassion - he simply walked towards his goal, leaving death and grief in his wake.

Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in the Bavarian city of Günzburg. The youth of the future doctor of medicine was typical for most German youth of the late 20s and early 30s of the 20th century. Josef fell under the influence of Nazi propaganda and became a member of the Steel Helmet, a radical Nazi organization.

Members of the Steel Helmet. 1934

But the nightly torchlight processions and burning of Jewish shops did not captivate the intelligent young man, so Mengele broke with the militants a year later, citing health problems. Young man He was attracted by science - having received a medical diploma in anthropology, he easily got a job at the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene, as an assistant to Dr. Otmar von Verschuer.

Promising young doctor Josef Mengele

Together with Verschuer, Mengele worked on issues of genetics, with particular emphasis on twins and various developmental anomalies. When Adolf Hitler came to power, the institute abandoned all unpromising tasks and completely switched to studying racial issues. At the height of the war, in 1942, Josef Mengele was offered to work “for the glory of the fatherland” in a concentration camp in Poland, and the young specialist immediately agreed.

Josef Mengele (first on the left) at the Solahütte resort 30 km from

A lot of work was foreseen, since Jews from all over Europe were brought to Poland for the extermination, and material for scientific research there was more than enough. First, the young specialist was appointed chief physician of the Roma sector in Auschwitz, and a little later he headed the clinic in Birkenau, a satellite concentration camp of a huge death complex.

One of the main tasks of doctors in concentration camps was to receive new batches of prisoners, who were immediately sorted by gender, age and, of course, health status. Elderly, sick, exhausted and too young prisoners were immediately sent to the gas chambers, like hopeless workers.

A new batch of prisoners arrived at the Auschwitz camp station

But any of the doomed could have been saved by Dr. Mengele, he had only to turn to the leadership of the concentration camp with a corresponding request. It is worth noting that the young doctor often made requests for pardon for prisoners and took dozens of them to his clinic on the territory of the camp.

Auschwitz crematorium oven

Mengele even asked to wake him up if a train with new prisoners arrived at night. The doctor was especially interested in children and, first of all, twins and those who had growth abnormalities.

Most of the camp doctor’s “patients” were never seen again - they all died a terrible, painful death in the “operating rooms” and laboratories of Auschwitz.

In one of the Auschwitz laboratories

It is difficult to describe the full range of “scientific” works for which Dr. Josef Mengele used living material. They performed operations to change the color of the cornea - the Nazi was looking for a way to turn people with brown and black eyes into blue-eyed Aryans. Creepy experiments in gynecology, amputation of limbs, experiments with lowering body temperature to extreme levels and infection with fatal diseases were also carried out.

Congenital malformations delayed death

Some of the tasks that Mengele set for himself concerned bringing people to the standards of “racial purity,” and some were ordered by the military. German army New methods of rescue from hypothermia and pressure changes, effective antibiotics and innovative surgical methods were needed.

One of thousands of victims of non-humans in white coats. Pressure variation experiment carried out upon request Luftwaffe

The doctor was not alone - a whole team of killers in white coats worked under his leadership, and in addition, Nazi “luminaries” from other death camps and military hospitals of the Reich regularly came to the camp to “exchange experiences.” “Doctor Death” or “Angel of Death”, which is what the camp prisoners called Mengele, conducted hundreds of experiments, most of which ended in death or crippled the experimental subject.

Doctor Mengele's assistant conducts an experiment with oxygen starvation

Camp prisoners who survived but became incapacitated were sent to gas chambers or killed by an injection of phenol. It is especially creepy to read the memoirs of camp prisoners about Mengele’s attitude towards children. The killer doctor was always kind and courteous, and in the pockets of his immaculate white robe were lollipops and chocolate candies, which he generously distributed to hungry kids.

Czeslaw Kwok. 14-year-old Auschwitz prisoner killed by a phenol injection into the heart in March 1943

Parents, seeing that a polite and nice doctor was taking their children with him, usually calmed down. It could not even occur to them that their children were already sentenced to terrible death in the clutches of a ruthless monster.

The doctor created the illusion of caring for people around his clinic - he worked on its territory kindergarten and a nursery, as well as an obstetrics and gynecology center for pregnant women.

"Kindergarten" by Dr. Mengele. All these children died

Only a few of those whom Dr. Mengele “showed concern” were able to leave the death camp after his liberation - the Nazi knew very well what the risk of disclosing information about crimes would be and carefully covered his tracks. The monster felt the end approaching and 10 days before the liberation of the camp Soviet troops escaped from the camp, sending his last experimental subjects to the gas chambers.

In most surviving photographs, “Doctor Death” smiles and looks quite happy

Dr. Mengele took with him an invaluable archive with notes, photographs and observation diaries. Having set out to meet the allies, Mengele surrendered to the Americans, after which his traces are on long years are lost.

During the trials of Nazi criminals, the name of Joseph Mengele was mentioned many times, but the American military could not say anything intelligible about his whereabouts.

Wanted Dr. Josef Mengele (Germany)

At this time, “Doctor Death” lived quietly in his native Bavaria under an assumed name and even practiced as a private doctor. Mengele felt so free that he even had the audacity to travel to areas of Germany under the control of the Red Army. One such trip is known for sure - the Nazi needed to pick up some valuable records from a cache.

We are looking for a criminal. Brazil

In 1949, the search for a monster doctor became so narrow that Mengele was forced to flee overseas, to Argentina. After the war, the so-called “rat trail” system operated, ensuring the escape of Nazi criminals from Europe to the relative safety of South America.

Having settled in Buenos Aires, Mengele opened a private medical practice, not disdaining clandestine abortions. In 1958, he was even arrested, but not for crimes in Auschwitz, but for the death of a young patient. However, solid patrons and big money resolved the issue, and the doctor did not stay in prison long.

Dr. Josef Mengele with his son. An old man enjoys life in a Brazilian resort

In the mid-60s, Buenos Aires became a troubled place for the Nazis - the Israeli intelligence service Mossad kidnapped and took Adolf Eichmann, one of Hitler's henchmen, to Israel. The criminal was tried and hanged to the applause of the whole world. Not wanting a similar fate, the doctor flees to Paraguay under the name Jose Mengele, and then to Brazil.

Mengele felt so confident that he did not even resort to changing his appearance.

For almost 35 years, Mengele led the best specialists in the search for war criminals by the nose. The Mossad and Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, literally stepped on the heels of the Angel of Death many times, but he always managed to evade capture. Unfortunately, the most wanted Nazi monster never received the punishment he deserved.

On February 7, 1979, Mengele, who had recently suffered a stroke, was splashing near the shore of a Sao Paulo beach in the ocean when he suddenly became ill. There was no one nearby, and the killer of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners simply drowned in the shallow water.

International team of experts involved in identifying Mengele's body

Skull of the most wanted Nazi criminal

The search for Mengele continued until 1992, when, using genetic analysis, it was proven that the unnamed remains of a German found in a neglected grave in one of the cemeteries of Sao Paulo belonged to Dr. Joseph himself.

The criminal's body did not deserve to lie in the ground - it was exhumed, dismantled into pieces and is used to this day as visual aids at a medical university.

Ralph Mengele

Finally, it is worth saying that Josef Mengele never repented for his crimes. In 1975, the doctor was found by his son Ralph, to whom the Nazi told that he did not regret anything and had brought absolutely no harm to anyone personally.

German doctor Joseph Mengele is known in world history as the most brutal Nazi criminal, who subjected tens of thousands of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp to inhumane experiments.

For his crimes against humanity, Mengele forever earned the nickname “Doctor Death.”

Origin

Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in Bavaria, in Günzburg. The ancestors of the future fascist executioner were ordinary German farmers. Father Karl founded the agricultural equipment company Karl Mengele and Sons. The mother was raising three children. When Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power, the wealthy Mengele family began to actively support him. Hitler defended the interests of the very farmers on whom the well-being of this family depended.

Joseph did not intend to continue his father’s work and went to study to become a doctor. Studied at the universities of Vienna and Munich. In 1932 he joined the ranks of the Nazi Steel Helmet stormtroopers, but soon left this organization due to health problems. After graduating from university, Mengele received a doctorate. He wrote his dissertation on the topic of racial differences in the structure of the jaw.

Military service and professional activities

In 1938, Mengele joined the ranks of the SS and at the same time the Nazi Party. At the beginning of the war, he joined the reserve forces of the SS Panzer Division, rose to the rank of SS Hauptsturmführer and received the Iron Cross for saving 2 soldiers from a burning tank. After being wounded in 1942, he was declared unfit for further service in the active forces and went to “work” in Auschwitz.

In the concentration camp, he decided to realize his long-time dream of becoming an outstanding doctor and research scientist. Mengele calmly justified Hitler's sadistic views with scientific expediency: he believed that if inhuman cruelty is needed for the development of science and the breeding of a “pure race,” then it can be forgiven. This point of view has translated into thousands of crippled lives and more large quantity deaths.

In Auschwitz, Mengele found the most fertile ground for his experiments. The SS not only did not control, but even encouraged the most extreme forms of sadism. In addition, the killing of thousands of Gypsies, Jews and other people of the “wrong” nationality was the primary task of the concentration camp. Thus, Mengele found himself in the hands of a huge amount of “human material” that was supposed to be used up. "Doctor Death" could do whatever he wanted. And he created.

"Doctor Death" experiments

Josef Mengele spent thousands of years during his career monstrous experiments. He amputated body parts without anesthesia and internal organs, sewed twins together, injected toxic chemicals into the children's eyes to see if the color of the iris would change after that. Prisoners were deliberately infected with smallpox, tuberculosis and other diseases. All new and untested medications were tested on them, chemical substances, poisons and poisonous gases.

Mengele was most interested in various developmental anomalies. A huge number of experiments were carried out on dwarfs and twins. Of the latter, about 1,500 couples were subjected to his brutal experiments. About 200 people survived.

All operations on fusion of people, removal and transplantation of organs were performed without anesthesia. The Nazis did not consider it advisable to spend expensive medicines on “subhumans.” Even if the patient survived the experience, he was expected to be destroyed. In many cases, the autopsy was performed at a time when the person was still alive and felt everything.

After the war

After Hitler’s defeat, “Doctor Death,” realizing that execution awaited him, tried with all his might to escape persecution. In 1945, he was detained in the uniform of a private near Nuremberg, but then released because they could not establish his identity. After this, Mengele hid for 35 years in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. All this time, the Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD was looking for him and was close to capturing him several times.

It was never possible to arrest the cunning Nazi. His grave was discovered in Brazil in 1985. In 1992, the body was exhumed and proved that it belonged to Josef Mengele. Now the remains of the sadistic doctor are at the Medical University of Sao Paulo.