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Josef Mengele

1911 - 1979

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Josef Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, often dubbed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). He performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers. Before the war, Mengele received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Mengele is the 4th most popular physician (up from 7th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 53rd in 2019) and the most popular German Physician.

Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He is most famous for performing human experiments on prisoners and for his role in the selection of prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Josef Mengele ranks 4 out of 726. Before him are Hippocrates, Galen, and Paracelsus. After him are Robert Koch, Florence Nightingale, Basil of Caesarea, L. L. Zamenhof, Joseph Lister, Edward Jenner, Anthony Fauci, and Albert Schweitzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Josef Mengele ranks 2. Before him is Ronald Reagan. After him are Baba Vanga, Konstantin Chernenko, Naguib Mahfouz, Georges Pompidou, Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Władysław Szpilman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Todor Zhivkov, and Czesław Miłosz. Among people deceased in 1979, Josef Mengele ranks 1. After him are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Mary Pickford, Park Chung-hee, Giuseppe Meazza, John Wayne, Ernst Chain, Nino Rota, Dennis Gabor, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, and Jean Monnet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Josef Mengele ranks 42 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Martin Heidegger (1889), Karl Dönitz (1891), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Friedrich Schiller (1759), and Robert Schumann (1810). After him are Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Hermann Göring (1893), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), and Werner Heisenberg (1901).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Josef Mengele ranks 1. After him are Robert Koch (1843), Georgius Agricola (1494), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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