Josef Mengele (1911-1979) was born on March 16, 1911 in Günzburg. He studied medicine and anthropology in Munich and Bonn. Mengele was deployed as camp physician (Lagerarzt) in Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp from May 1943 onwards. He was tasked with the selections and conducted medical experiments on prisoners. He left Auschwitz in January 1945 just before the Red Army liberated the ...

This collection consists of copy papers which document Josef Mengele's early life and career in the SS and also his life in exile in South America.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-333). 333 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 18 cm

1e dr. 383 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

This collection of correspondence and cuttings documents Reg Freeson's persistent efforts to establish the truth about the fate of Josef Mengele, the notorious SS doctor who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz. In particular, Freeson attempts to find out whether a body exhumed from a grave in Brazil in 1985 was in fact that of Mengele, as alleged. The responses he ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249). 248, [4] pages ; 21 cm

For many years Mengele was considered the most wanted war criminal worldwide. In 1958 a warrant for his arrest was released, without result. In the course of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial the broader public became aware of his misdeeds. Mengele had escaped in 1949 to South America, with the presumed assistance of his influential family in Günzburg, Swabia, whose social and economic leading position ...

Gestencilde uitg. 442 p. : ill. ; 28 cm