2.  Josef Rudolf Mengele- SS-Hauptstrumfuhrer
(Captain)
 Physician at Auschwitz, Germany
 Convicted of War Crimes and evaded
capture for 34 years until his death
in 1979
 Music, Books, Articles Written
"I personally have not killed, injured or caused bodily harm
to anyone."

3.  Second highest physician at Nazi
Concentration Camp in Auschwitz,
Germany, determined fate of inmates
 Served in World War II for 2 years
after being wounded in Soviet Front
 Earned the name “Angel of Death” or “White
Angel” by inmates due to cruel intentions

4. WHO:
- Victims
People of the Jewish Decent
- Suspects
Josef Mengele (Medical Officer)
Berthold Epstein (Jewish Pediatrician)
Eduard Wirths (Chief Medical Officer)
WHAT:
- Josef Mengele performed human experiments on women, children,
and men such as dissections, sterilization, amputations, and shock
treatments to determine if he could make an all “perfect race.”
WHEN:
- May 1943- August 1944
WHERE:
- Auschwitz, Germany

5. Type of Evidence  Description
 Nuremberg Trials  His name was mentioned
several times but Allied
 DNA Testing forces knew he was
deceased
 Forensic experts tested his
 Confirmed sighting in son, Rolf Mengele, in 1992
Paraguay after finding Josef Mengle's
remains and found a match
 In 1985 West German
police find address books,
letters, & papers leading
them to Mengele’s grave in
Embu, Brazil

6.  After World War II, Josef
Mengele fled to South America
where he fled capture for 34
years and eventually died from
having a stroke while swimming
at his home in the Atlantic Ocean
on February 7, 1979 at the age
of 67 in Bertiogo, Brazil.

7.  During sometime
when Mengele fled to
South America, he
still continued his
experiments on
women in Brazil, and
is responsible for the
high birth rate of twins
which consist of
 1 in 5 Women give Blonde Hair, Blue
birth to twins Eyed children

8.  Wikipedia.com/wiki/Josef_Mengele
 Mengele.dk
 Holocaustsearchproject.org/othercamps/mengel
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 Telegraph.co.uk>News>World News>South
America>Brazil
 Ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?Moduled1000706
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