Josef Mengele is one of the most infamous figures of the Holocaust. Despite being trained as a doctor, Josef spent little time preserving life and instead brought a sadistic cruelty to experiments that ended the lives of many, mainly children. His service at Auschwitz and the medical experiments he conducted there have made him the most widely recognized perpetrator of the crimes committed during the reign of Nazi Germany with his postwar life in hiding represents the international failure to bring Nazi criminals to justice. Mengele has been the subject of numerous popular books, films, and television shows however, many of these portrayals distort the real facts of Mengele’s crimes and take him out of his historical context. Despite the portrayal of him as a mad scientist who conducted sadistic experiments with no scientific basis, the truth about Mengele is even more disturbing earning him the title the "angel of death". Join Carly and Tab this week as they discuss the depraved life of one of the most evil men in history; Josef Mengele.
Content Warning: explicit discussions of human experimentation and casualties, violence, genocide and racism.
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Episode Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Josef-Mengele
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ssLE3FddY
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/josef-mengele
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/auschwitz-gets-a-new-doctor-the-angel-of-death
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/21/magazine/what-made-this-man-mengele.html