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

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

Dr. '''Josef Mengele''' (1911 - 1979) was a [[Germany|German]] physician and researcher who worked 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. He also strongly supported "survival of the fittest".  

'''Josef Mengele''' (1911 - 1979) was a [[Germany|German]] physician and researcher who worked in the [[Auschwitz]] death camp. Mengele had obtained a Ph.D. based on the study of racial differences in the anatomy of the jaw. His degrees from the Universities of Frankfurt and Munich were revoked in 1964.  He was one of the greatest supporters of [[Nazi]] theories of racial superiority with questionable research claims. He also strongly supported "survival of the fittest".  

He performed experiments on humans in the [[concentration camp]]s attempting to prove that disease was the product of [[racial inferiority]] and in order to [[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. After the war he fled to [[Brazil]] where he drowned due to a stroke while swimming.  

He performed experiments on humans in the [[concentration camp]]s attempting to prove that disease was the product of [[racial inferiority]] and in order to [[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. After the war he fled to [[Brazil]] where he drowned due to a stroke while swimming.  

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.

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[[Category:World War II]]

[[Category:World War II]]

[[Category:War criminals]]

[[Category:War criminals]]

[[Category:Nazis]]

[[Category:Nazis]]