Josef Mengele

Dr. Josef Mengele, Ph.D , MD (March 16, 1911–February 7, 1979) was a Nazi German physician who performed experiments that were condemned as murderously sadistic on prisoners in Auschwitz during World War II. He personally selected over 400,000 prisoners to die in gas chambers in Auschwitz.

See also

• The Holocaust
• Nazi human experimentation
• Doctors' Trial