Josef Mengele's Inhumane Medical Experiments

Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and physician during world war two. He performed most of his experiments in the concentration camp: Auschwitz. His main focus was twins and how they are born, along with other patients that had growth abnormalities. Having an interest in these special cases he was given the job to create what the Nazis called: “The Perfect Race.” He is infamous for his inhumane medical experimentations.
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, in the small village of Günzburg, Bavaria and was the firstborn to his parent Karl and Walburga Mengele. Josef was a weak child and often got sick causing him to be forced to stay away from other kids his age. “His fragility led to his isolation from others his age but caused him to receive extra attention from his mother, whom he both liked and admired.”(Grabowski). Due to Josef being a weak kid growing up, he would usually get more care and attention from his mother compared to his siblings and he admired it. As a kid, he admired his father making a success of himself with

His father was a successful businessman who made a farming company from the ground up and his mother was of a strong character who was-if not more- strict as her husband. “(Josef did have a great deal of admiration for Karl Sr. for having made a success of himself through his own efforts.)”(Grabowski). Although his parents were always strict and disciplinary to their kids, Josef was known to be a happy child. “Neighbors recalled him playing in the fields in the area with his brother, going on family outings with his parents, and attending skating parties on a small pond near their home.”(Grabowski). Although he was never into politics, Josef Mengele ended up joining The Stahlhelm, a nationalist paramilitary organization, at a young age and most actions did later on in his life were caused by the ideas given to him by The