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[[Image:Joseph_mengel.jpg|thumb|300px|Josef Mengele]]

[[Image:Joseph_mengel.jpg|thumb|300px|Josef Mengele]]

'''Josef Mengele''' (1911 - 1979) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physician]] and researcher who perpetrated the [[Holocaust]] in the [[Auschwitz]] death camp. Mengele had obtained a [[Ph.D.]] based on the study of [[racial]] differences in the anatomy of the jaw. He was one of the greatest supporters of [[Nazi]] theories of racial superiority with questionable research claims. Dr. Josef Mengele's [[evolution|evolutionary]] thinking was in accordance with [[Social Darwinism|social Darwinist]] theories that [[Adolf Hitler]] and a number of [[German]] academics found appealing.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref>  Mengele studied under the leading proponents the "unworthy life"  branch of evolutionary thought.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref>  Mengele strongly supported the murder of the physically and mentally disabled.  Dr. Mengele was one of the most notorious individuals associated with [[Nazi]] death camps and the [[Holocaust]].<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref>  Dr. Mengele obtained a infamous reputation due to his experiments on twins while at [[Auschwitz]]-Birkenau.<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref>  He was known as the "Angel of Death."

'''Josef Mengele''' (1911 - 1979) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physician]] and researcher who perpetrated the [[Holocaust]] in the [[Auschwitz]] death camp. Mengele had obtained a [[Ph.D.]] based on the study of [[racial]] differences in the anatomy of the jaw. He was one of the greatest supporters of [[Nazi]] theories of racial superiority with questionable research claims. Dr. Josef Mengele's [[evolution]]ary thinking was in accordance with [[Social Darwinism|social Darwinist]] theories that [[Adolf Hitler]] and a number of [[German]] academics found appealing.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref>  Mengele studied under the leading proponents the "unworthy life"  branch of evolutionary thought.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref>  Mengele strongly supported the murder of the physically and mentally disabled.  Dr. Mengele was one of the most notorious individuals associated with [[Nazi]] death camps and the [[Holocaust]].<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref>  Dr. Mengele obtained a infamous reputation due to his experiments on twins while at [[Auschwitz]]-Birkenau.<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref>  He was known as the "Angel of Death."

He performed experiments on humans in the [[concentration camp]]s attempting to prove that disease was the product of [[racism|racial inferiority]] and in order to [[eugenics|genetically engineer]] a new species, which was the aim of his organization, the Frankfurt based Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. He amputated healthy limbs and performed other unusual operations on prisoners.  

He performed experiments on humans in the [[concentration camp]]s attempting to prove that disease was the product of [[racism|racial inferiority]] and in order to [[eugenics|genetically engineer]] a new species, which was the aim of his organization, the Frankfurt based Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. He amputated healthy limbs and performed other unusual operations on prisoners.  

He has been criticized to this day because of his [[unethical]] and cruel operations on prisoners.

He has been criticized to this day because of his [[unethical]] and cruel operations on prisoners.

During the Israeli [[Mossad]] operation in May 1960 to capture [[Adolf Eichmann]] in [[Argentina]], operatives located Mengele's apartment, and at one point, knew he was home on a specific day.  At the time, though, Eichmann was in a safe house inside Argentina, and the [[Mossad]] decided it would be unsafe to attempt a second operation.  After Eichmann was taken out of the country, [[Mossad]] agents tried to locate Mengele, but he had already escaped to [[Paraguay]].<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_mengele;_ylt=AnNm4NTiMRGDB9xl2rO8T9gDW7oF Israeli Mossad let Nazi Mengele get away]</ref> He latter fled to [[Brazil]] where he drowned anonymously due to a stroke while swimming. His bones were identified in 1985, and a DNA test confirmed his identity in 1992<ref>[http://reporterdecristo.com/conheca-a-triste-historia-de-josef-mengele-oficial-medico-chefe-da-principal-enfermaria-do-campo-de-birkenau/ Mengele history, in Portuguese (includes some images with extreme graphical violence)], site reporterdecrito.com (Christ reporter, a Roman Catholic site)</ref>.

During the Israeli [[Mossad]] operation in May 1960 to capture [[Adolf Eichmann]] in [[Argentina]], operatives located Mengele's apartment, and at one point, knew he was home on a specific day.  At the time, though, Eichmann was in a safe house inside Argentina, and the [[Mossad]] decided it would be unsafe to attempt a second operation.  After Eichmann was taken out of the country, [[Mossad]] agents tried to locate Mengele, but he had already escaped to [[Paraguay]].<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_mengele;_ylt=AnNm4NTiMRGDB9xl2rO8T9gDW7oF Israeli Mossad let Nazi Mengele get away]</ref> He latter fled to [[Brazil]] where he drowned anonymously due to a stroke while swimming. His bones were identified in 1985, and a DNA test confirmed his identity in 1992.<ref>[http://reporterdecristo.com/conheca-a-triste-historia-de-josef-mengele-oficial-medico-chefe-da-principal-enfermaria-do-campo-de-birkenau/ Mengele history, in Portuguese (includes some images with extreme graphical violence)], site reporterdecrito.com (Christ reporter, a Roman Catholic site)</ref>

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