"On Auschwitz" (52): Doctor Josef Mengele and his experiments in the camp

Josef Mengele was a doctor of medicine and philosophy, an assistant to Prof. Otmar von Verschuer in the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, member of the Nazi Party and the SS.

In Auschwitz, he was the chief physician in the Roma and Sinti Family Camp in Birkenau, and from August to December 1944, he was also the chief physician of the entire Birkenau camp.

Mengele was responsible for the experiments on human heredity. He was never punished for his crimes. Dr Agnieszka Kita from the Archives of the Muzeum talks about Josef Mengele.

English voiceover: Therese McLaughlin

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Online lesson on medicine in Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_medycyna_en

Listen to the podcast about medicine in Auschwitz: open.spotify.com/episode/2s2Jb91u55L6s80XUlq5J…

The podcast on experiments: open.spotify.com/episode/2Ij4icZ6kicc96gWL3f3y…