Josef Mengele (16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. He gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving prisoners, determining who was to be killed; and for performing human experiments on camp inmates.
Mengele became known as the Angel of Death. He gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving prisoners determining who was to be killed.
Josef Mengele became one of the most hunted of Nazi war criminals. Mengele, like George Tiller, was known for killing innocent children. In one instance, Mengele drew a line on the wall of the children's block about 5 feet or 5 feet 2 inches from the floor, and sent those whose heads could not reach the line to the gas chamber. (Lifton, p. 346.)
