

He was respected in his field and worked for one of the leading research institutions in Germany.

He was a highly trained doctor and medical researcher, as well as a decorated war veteran. The truth about Mengele is even more disturbing. Some portray him as a mad scientist who conducted sadistic experiments with no scientific basis.

Many of these portrayals distort the real facts of Mengele’s crimes and take him out of his historical context. His postwar life in hiding has come to represent the international failure to bring the perpetrators of Nazi crimes to justice.īecause of his infamy, Mengele has been the subject of numerous popular books, films, and television shows. His service at Auschwitz and the medical experiments he conducted there have made him the most widely recognized perpetrator of the crimes committed at that camp. Josef Mengele is one of the most infamous figures of the Holocaust.
