Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele was an SS physician at Auschwitz who selected prisoners for forced labor or murder and conducted coercive, brutal experiments on inmates.

Auschwitz concentration camp: A Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex in German-occupied Poland, where more than one million people were murdered. Mengele carried out selections and experiments within this camp complex.
Mengele twins: Children and adults who were twins and were imprisoned at Auschwitz, where Mengele subjected many to experiments. Their testimony and survival records document a central target of Mengele's experiments.
Schutzstaffel: The Nazi paramilitary organization responsible for policing, concentration camps, and major institutions of racial persecution. Mengele served as an SS physician within the organization controlling Auschwitz.
Nuremberg Code: A 1947 statement of ethical principles for human experimentation, emphasizing voluntary consent. Its consent principle directly rejects the coercion central to Mengele's experiments.
Auschwitz twins: Twins imprisoned at Auschwitz whom Nazi doctors subjected to experiments, including research directed by Josef Mengele. Mengele's experiments on twins became a defining part of his crimes.
Miklos Nyiszli: A Hungarian Jewish physician imprisoned at Auschwitz who was forced to assist SS doctors, including Mengele. His memoir describes his coerced medical work and observations of Mengele at Auschwitz.
Nazi racial ideology: The racist and antisemitic worldview that underpinned Nazi persecution, conquest, and genocide. Its racial hierarchy shaped the categories and claims used to justify Mengele's experiments.
Nazi Hunters: Investigators and activists who sought to locate and bring Nazi war criminals to justice after World War II. Mengele's long evasion made him a prominent target of postwar pursuit.
Auschwitz selections: The sorting of arriving prisoners at Auschwitz into groups assigned to forced labor or immediate death. Mengele took part in selections that sent many prisoners directly to death.
Vera Alexander: A Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz who cared for children and twins subjected to Mengele's experiments. Her postwar testimony documented the treatment of children in Mengele's experimental block.

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