DR.MENGLE

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• He was born march 16th 1911 in Günzburg, Germany
• He died February 7th, 1979 in Bertioga, São Paulo brazil

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• After his medical studies, Mengel's beliefs changed
• In 1937 he Joined the Nazi party and then a year later the SS
• After getting wounded in battle, he volunteered for the concentration camps

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• Dr. Mengele was known to be the most brutal Nazi in the holocaust.
• He is most famous for his obsession with human experiments.

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• On his 21 month in the camps, his position was moved, he would stand on a platform and would point to left or the right to determine who would go where
• Mengele was responsible for choosing which Jew would survive in the camps to get tested or die in the gas chambers.

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• Once Mengele eventually became the medical doctor for the SS.The SS stands for Schutzstaffel and means protection squadron.
• Mengele was then called for the position to be the chief doctor in Auschwitz.

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• He mainly tested on Jewish twins, Gypsy children, dwarfs and people with different abilities
• He tested high-altitude experiments, freezing experiments and with the spotted fever

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• High-altitude experiments- is to investigate the limits of human endurances and and existence at .extremely high altitude
• freezing experiments- to investigate the most effective means of treating a person who had been chilled or frozen
• Spotted fever experiments- to investigate the effectiveness spotted fever and other vaccines

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• He believed twins had secrets and genetics that other kids didn't
• He took about 3000 twin children from the camps
• Twins to him were known as "Mengele's children," they were treated differently then other prisoners in camps
• A few parents were also allowed to come with their twins
• He would inject them with substances like gasoline and if one twin died he would kill the other right away

"ANGEL OF DEATH " ?

• The Angel of death was the name given to Mengele
• He enjoyed torturing Jews with his experiments and even also sending them to the gas chambers to die

MENGELE'S ESCAPE FROM GERMANY

• Argentina was paid to hide Mengele and other Nazi's after the war
• Mengele kept a low profile as possible, while working in farms and ranches while hiding
• After Argentina, Mengele managed to fly to Paraguay then Brazil, where he ultimately died of old age.
• Mengele was mainly remembered for two things; for his experiments and as " the one who got away,"

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• http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Josef_Mengele_(fiction)
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/josef_mengele.htm
• http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-angel-of-death-dies
• http://www.auschwitz.dk/mengele.htm
• http://www.mengele.dk/new_page_6.htm
• http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/thehistoryofargentina/p/Josef-Meng...

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• When did Mengele die?
• What did Mengele experiment on?
• When did he join the Nazi?
• What does SS mean?
• What country did Mengele die in?