Josef Mengele - Nazi Angel of Death & His Horrific Medical Experiments on Auschwitz Prisoners

Josef Mengele - Nazi Angel of Death & His Horrific Medical Experiments on Auschwitz Prisoners. On the 30th of May 1943, the SS assigned Mengele to Auschwitz where he worked as one of the camp physicians at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There is some evidence that Mengele himself requested this assignment because of the opportunities it could provide for his research. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of the Auschwitz camps and also served as a killing center for Jews deported from throughout Europe. In addition to other duties, Mengele also had responsibility for Birkenau’s so called “Gypsy Family camp”. Beginning in 1943, nearly 21,000 Romani men, women, and children were sent to Auschwitz and imprisoned in the Gypsy Camp. When this family camp was liquidated on the 2nd of August 1944, Mengele participated in selecting the 2,893 Romani prisoners who were to be murdered in the Birkenau gas chambers. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed chief physician for Auschwitz-Birkenau and in November 1944, he was as