Dr. Mengele

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a life story. It is a look into who Josef Mengele was, and how he changed over the years.
The authors underlying main theme, throughout the book, seemed to be to show that Josef Mengele was not who his infamous legend would dictate. It is true that he was a cold and ruthless killer who murdered thousands of innocent people. He earned the nickname “The Angel of Death” for the way he would remain calm and composed while performing such torturous an act as a live dissection of a human being. He had a sick fascination with twins. He believed that twins held the secret to discovering how to perfect a master race. The following is a description by Vera Alexander, a witness of Mengele’s horrors, of a common experiment Mengele would perform on twins:
“One day SS men came and took two children away. They were two of my pets, Tito and Nino. One of them was a hunchback. Two or three days later, an SS man brought them back in a terrible state. They had been cut. The ...

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far from being considered physically superior to anyone. In fact, “since childhood, he had been self-conscious of his slightly tawny skin, his penetrating brown-green eyes, and his dark hair. At school he endured taunts from his classmates about his Gypsy looks.”(p. 25 par. 2) It could be seen that his contempt for Gypsies might have arisen due to trauma he endured during childhood from others, as well as a self-imposed trauma he brought upon himself, due to his unstable personality. Mengele was plagued with sickness and disease his whole life, and tried desperately to hide this fact. He was a vain man, who liked to preen himself in front of a mirror. In fact, he refused to ...

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