• Josef Mengele was born March 11th, 1911
• Raised in Gunzburg, Germany
• Became interested in Aryan supremacy while studying human genetics
• In 1939 he decided to enlist in the German army
• Began to think about how he could breed an Aryan race
• He became assigned to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
• He decided which incoming inmates worked or were sent to die
• He was later named the chief medical officer there by Adolf Hitler

• He experimented on his patients in an attempt to breed the Aryan race
• He wanted to create an army of blond haired and blue eyed soldiers
• He performed these experiments without anesthesia
• He quickly became known as the "Angel of Death"
• He had a great interest in twins
• The people performed on consisted of Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, and Mulatto children
• All people fitting this criteria were in concentration camps

Some of his many experiments included...

• Sewing children together to create siamese twins
• Injecting dye into children's eyes to change the color
• Freezing inmates to death
• Gender change operations
• Subjection to large amounts of radiation
• Tearing off the limbs of children
• Using electricity to test the endurance of pain
• Beating children with a hammer to make them go insane